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(AP) WASHINGTON – A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Thursday the U.S. does not see any willingness on Cuba’s part to seriously discuss the release of imprisoned American contactor Alan Gross, and urged Havana to send him home as a humanitarian gesture. State Department spokeswoman Neda Brown was responding to a senior Cuban diplomat’s comment Wednesday that her country was prepared to negotiate a solution in the case and was awaiting a U.S. response. Gross was working on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested in 2009 at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. He says he was only trying to provide Internet service to the island’s small Jewish community. Cuba says the multimillion-dollar programs are an effort by Washington to undermine the government, and has noted that Gross was carrying sophisticated communications equipment. Wife sees American jailed in Cuba, fears he’ll dieOfficial: Cuba ready to talk about Gross caseNY rabbi meets with jailed American in Cuba Gross was sentenced to 15 years, and has lost his final appeal, 충청남도출장업소 leaving him out of legal options. Previously, senior officials in Cuban President Raul Castro’s government have raised the case of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States, though they have not spelled out publicly that they are seeking an exchange for the 63-year-old Maryland man, who has been held for 2 and 1/2 years....

(CBS/AP) MADRID – The lawyers for an elderly Spanish woman who made global headlines when she botched the restoration of a fresco of Jesus Christ say she has no interest in a cut of the tourism windfall her work has brought her northeastern Spanish...