HAVANA: Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro vowed Monday to set aside their differences in pursuit of what the US president called a “new day” for the long bitterly divided neighbors.

Castro acknowledged there were still “profound” differences over Cuba’s human rights situation and the decades-old, crippling US economic embargo on the island.

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