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		</div><p>US President Barack Obama has started an extraordinary visit to Cuba, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties with America&#8217;s former adversary.</p>
<p>Mr Obama&#8217;s whirlwind trip is a crowning moment in his and Cuban President Raul Castro&#8217;s effort to restore normal relations between their countries.</p>
<p>While deep differences persist, the economic and political relationship has changed rapidly in the 15 months since the leaders vowed a new beginning.</p>
<p>Wielding an umbrella on a rainy Havana afternoon, Mr Obama and his family stepped off Air Force One and were greeted by senior Cuban officials &#8211; but not Mr Castro.</p>
<p>The Cuban leader frequently greets major world figures at Jose Marti International Airport, but he was absent on the tarmac.</p>
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<p>Ahead of Mr Obama&#8217;s arrival, counter-protesters and police broke up an anti-government demonstration by the Ladies in White group, whose members were taken into custody by female police officers in a scene that plays out in Havana each Sunday.</p>
<p>They are typically detained briefly and then released.</p>
<p>Mr Obama&#8217;s visit was highly anticipated in Cuba, where workers cleaned up the streets in Old Havana and gave buildings a fresh coat of paint.</p>
<p>American flags were raised alongside the Cuban colours in parts of the capital, an improbable image for those who have lived through half a century of bitterness between the two countries.<br />
But many Cubans stayed home to avoid extensive closures of main boulevards.</p>
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