Cuba

Egypt will export lifesaving insulin injections to Cuba as part of a new pharmaceutical market expansion into Latin America. The Insulinagypt injections, produced in Egypt and used to treat diabetes, will be exported through the United…
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Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuba’s deputy prime minister, met with Saudi Arabia’s minister of commerce, and chairman of the board of directors of the General Authority of Foreign Trade, Majid Al-Qasabi. They reviewed commercial, financial and…
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Sara Al-Sayed, deputy minister for public diplomacy at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Monday received Cuban Ambassador to the Kingdom Vladimir Gonzalez Quesada. During their meeting in Riyadh, they reviewed diplomatic…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday condemned US sanctions against Cuba as he visited the island during the last leg of a Latin American tour that took him to Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Lavrov met with his Cuban…
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The Cuban government, in a reversal of a ban enacted in 2021, has given the green light to US dollar deposits into the local banking system as the Caribbean island nation undergoes an economic crisis. “From this moment on, financial and…
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Pope Francis hopes Cuban authorities will release and grant amnesty to people arrested and sentenced after the historic protests that took place in 2021, Cardinal Beniamino Stella, who traveled to the island as the pontiff’s special envoy,…
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Cuba's electrical grid collapsed late on Tuesday, local officials said, leaving the entire country in the dark shortly after Hurricane Ian ploughed through the western end of the island leaving a path of destruction in its wake. The…
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Another rare Bengal tiger cub was born at Cuba’s National Zoo in Havana, zookeepers said on Friday, just over a year after four of the striped and adorable baby beasts — among them a rare white tiger — graced the grounds. The birth of…
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Heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Agatha flooded much of western Cuba on Friday, killing at least three people in Havana. Thousands of residents in the region lost power and a man in Pinar del Rio province also was missing,…
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Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership that began with his brother Fidel and country’s 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement in a speech at…
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