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The wife of imprisoned U.S. State Department contractor Alan Gross traveled to Cuba Tuesday as part of her ongoing effort to free her husband. 

Judy Gross did not talk to a CNN reporter outside Havana's Jose Marti International Airport, and she and Gross' attorney quickly boarded a bus provided by the Cuban government. 

Last week, Gross' mother died after a long fight with cancer, Gross' attorney, Scott Gilbert, said. 

The Cuban government refused Gross' request to travel to the United States to say goodbye to Evelyn Gross before she died. Gross had promised that after seeing his mother he would return to his prison cell at a military hospital in Havana. 

"We would like to convey our heartfelt condolences to his relatives," Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Josefina Vidal said in a statement. "It is necessary to clarify that neither the Cuban penitentiary system nor the U.S. penitentiary system provide the possibility for inmates to travel abroad, no matter the reason. " 

Gross, 65, is serving a 15-year sentence for bringing satellite communications equipment to Cuba as part of his work as a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was convicted in March 2011. 

U.S. officials said Gross was merely trying to help Cubans bypass the island's stringent restrictions on Internet access and have said his imprisonment is one of the major obstacles to improved relations with Cuba. 

In April, Gross embarked on a hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment. He later said he was suspending his hunger strike after his mother pleaded with him to begin eating again. 
1. Who was trying to free her husband?\
2. What is the womans name who is trying to free her husband?
3. What airport was she standing outside where she talked to a CNN reporter?
4. What did the Cuban Ministry of foreign affairs say that's it's necessary to clarify?
5. How long a sentence is Gross serving?
6. What is it he did?
7. Who provided a bus for Judy Gross and her Attorney from the airport?
8. What is the name of the gross attorney?
9. WHat is it U.S. officials say gross was trying to help Cubans do?
10. What kind of strike did gross go on in April?

Numbered answers:
1. Alan Gross
2. Judy Gross
3. Havana's Jose Marti International Airport
4. It is necessary to clarify that neither the Cuban penitentiary system nor the U.S. penitentiary system provide the possibility for inmates to travel abroad, no matter the reason
5. 15-year
6. brought communications equipment to cuba
7. the Cuban government
8. Scott Gilbert
9. trying to help Cubans bypass the island's stringent restrictions on Internet access
10. a hunger strike


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(CNN) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing an international arrest warrant, is paying the price for pandering to the West, al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an audio statement released Tuesday. 

Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in 2007, said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West. 

"I am not defending Omar al-Bashir or his regime, nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere," Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the statement released by al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media. 

But, he said, "the issue isn't one of Darfur and solving its problems; the issue is one of making excuses for more foreign interference in the Muslims' countries in the framework of the contemporary Zionist Crusade." 

The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month accuses al-Bashir of war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges he denies. In response, Sudan ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country, groups that the United Nations says provide roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur. 

"The Bashir regime is reaping what it sowed," al-Zawahiri said. "For many long years, it continued to back down and backtrack in front of American Crusader pressure." 

He further accused Sudan of expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there, particularly Osama bin Laden, and declaring "in an audacious lie that they had left voluntarily, then attempting to beg payment for that from the Saudi regime and the Americans." 

Al-Zawahiri asked, "Why hasn't the United Nations moved to protect the Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli barbarity and criminality, while it pretends to cry over the suffering of the people of Darfur? Why hasn't the United Nations and the international community intervened to lift the siege from Gaza, while it pretends to cry over the people of Darfur being deprived of relief and aid?" 
1. Who issued a warrant?
2. When?
3. Who is named in the warrant?
4. What is he accused of?
5. Anything else officially in the document?
6. Does he agree with the charges?
7. What did Sudan do in response?
8. How much aid do these groups provide in Darfur?
9. What is al-Qaeda's production company called?
10. Who is second in command at al-Qaeda?
11. What does he accuse Sudan of?
12. Anything else?
13. anyone in particular?
14. Who does he want the UN to protect?
15. From what?
16. Is the arrest warrant just a local warrant?
17. What kind is it?

Numbered answers:
1. the International Criminal Court
2. earlier in the month
3. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
4. pandering to the West
5. war crimes and crimes against humanity
6. no
7. he ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country
8. roughly half
9. as-Sahab Media
10. Ayman al-Zawahiri
11. pandering to the West.
12. expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there
13. Osama bin Laden
14. the Palestinians in Gaza
15. Israeli barbarity and criminality
16. no
17. an international arrest warrant


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(CNN) -- He may have knocked out eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao during their recent bout in Las Vegas but if Juan Manuel Marquez wants a fifth fight against the legendary Filipino he'll need to get permission from his wife. 

The Mexican stunned the world of boxing by knocking out Pacquiao in the sixth round of their welterweight contest earlier in December. 

It was the first time the 39-year-old has claimed victory in four fights against Pacquiao, who many pundits regard to be the finest pound-for-pound fighter the sport has ever seen. 

But with fans clamoring for a fifth bout, Marquez says the only way it will become a reality is if his wife allows him to renege on his promise to retire whatever the outcome of the fourth. 

"I made a promise and I know that promises are debts," Márquez said in an interview with CNN en Español. 

"I don't see a case to fight again but logically he wants a chance," he added of talk that he and Pacquiao could square off for a fifth time. 

Marquez's emphatic victory offered the Mexican some redemption after he failed to win any of the first three fights against Pacquiao. 

Their first encounter in May 2004 ended in a draw, while the Filipino took a points victory at the conclusion of their rematch four years later. 

But their third clash in November 2011 ended in controversy when Pacquiao was awarded victory in a marginal points decision. 

The crowd booed as the judges' verdict was read out and Marquez claimed he should have been declared the victor. 
1. Is Manny Mexican?
2. how old is he?
3. did he win  the 2004 fight?
4. did he win in 2011?
5. how did the crowd react?
6. when?
7. did marquez think he should have won?
8. who wants to see them fight a fifth time?
9. who did he promise he would retire?
10. when did he say he would rretire?


Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. 39
3. no
4. no
5. they  booed
6. as the judges' verdict was read
7. yes
8. fans
9. his wife
10. after the fourth.fight