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A report published the tabloid New York Post said the US is going out of its way not to offend the Cuban government by keeping dissidents away from the flag-raising.

But on Friday, the US hoisted the Stars and Stripes over its newly reopened American Embassy in Cuba, the culmination of a remarkable behind-the-scenes diplomatic manoeuvre designed to end more than half a century of hostility.

US Secretary of State John Kerry chaired here on Friday the formal ceremony of raising the American flag in the recently reopened US embassy in Cuba, after 54 years of animosity between the two neighbours.

“They have to go”, he said Sunday.

The Obama administration has warned China about the use of undercover operatives in the United States who are assigned to pressure Chinese fugitives to return home and in some cases to recover assets gained through alleged corruption, U.S. officials said.

The Turkish military said it hit and neutralized 17 “separatists terrorist targets” in Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq.

The symbolic moment served as a picture-perfect coda to 8 months of quick changes since the December 17 rapprochement announcement by US President Barack Obama and Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, which paved the way for the two countries to reopen their embassies on July 20.

The U.S. embassy in Havana has been reopened after over 54 years.

Kerry lead a ceremony to raise the US flag over the newly reopened American embassy on Friday, becoming the first US top diplomat to visit Cuba in 70 years.

On Wednesday, the Pentagon said U.S. jets now based at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey had hit their first targets in Syria, which American officials cheered as a significant step forward.

The group accused the policemen of having links with ISIS and masterminding a bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc that killed dozens of civilians.

In remarks at a flag-raising ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, Kerry says “I want to sincerely thank leaders from throughout the Americas who have long urged the United States and Cuba to restore normal ties”.

Shelton, an Alexandria businessman, was at the newly reopened United States Embassy in Havana Friday as the American flag was raised in a ceremony celebrating renewed relations between the countries.

The US reopened its embassy in Cuba yesterday for the first time in 54 years in a step towards mending relations between the two countries.

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