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Global South leaders demand end of ‘plundering international order’

G77+China summit comes at a time of growing international frustration with the Western-led world order.

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Convalescing Pope Francis holds talks with Cuba's president at Vatican

Pope Francis, in his first full week back at the Vatican following abdominal surgery, has met with Cuba's president

The Independent UK

Russia and Cuba ink deals to revitalize communist-run island's ailing economy

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Cubans, waylaid by weather and fuel shortage, march for May Day five days late

Cubans rallied on Havana's Malecon waterfront boulevard to celebrate International Worker's Day on Friday, five days after the planned May 1 event was called off due to foul weather and a fuel crisis that has crippled public transport on the island.

Reuters

Cuba Catholic Church says 'door open' to future talks on prisoner amnesty

Cuba's Catholic Church on Thursday said the "door was open" to future talks over the release of prisoners on the island following a meeting the previous day with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and top advisors.

Reuters

Russia´s Lavrov in Havana on Latam drive to shore up support

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel re-elected by lawmakers

Cuban lawmakers on Wednesday easily re-elected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

Reuters

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Cuban President Diaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely expected to be chosen this week by assembly lawmakers to lead the country for another five years, despite a rocky first term marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a near-unprecedented economic crisis.

Reuters

Cuba's fuel shortages due to supplier nations not delivering, says president

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the island's ongoing gasoline shortages were caused by countries contracted to supply the fuel not complying with their requirements due to "a complex energy situation."

Reuters

Strong turnout in Cuba's national legislative elections -government

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Cuba holds a stacked election amid the biggest population exodus since the revolution

Cuba is holding elections Sunday to pick lawmakers at a time when the ruling communist party is struggling to keep a lid on public anger caused by rampant inflation, hunger and blackouts.

Tribune News Service

As Cuba election day nears, some voters ask, 'why bother?'

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Cuba says its allies have pledged help to end its economic crisis

China, Russia, Algeria and Turkey have pledged to restructure Cuba's debt, provide new trade and investment financing, and help ease an energy crisis, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told state-run media following a rare trip abroad last week.

Reuters

Cuba municipal elections see lowest turnout in 40 years

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

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Cuba wins China debt relief, new funds

China has agreed to restructure Cuban debt and provide new trade and investment credits to the beleaguered Caribbean Island nation after a meeting in Peking between the two Communist countries’ leaders.

Tribune News Service

Xi resumes in-person summits despite COVID-19 spike in Beijing

A maskless President Xi Jinping met Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel in Beijing, resuming his flurry of in-person summits even as a record COVID-19 surge fanned lockdown fears in the Chinese capital.

Reuters

Evoking Castro, Putin and Cuban leader pledge to deepen ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel unveiled a monument in a north Moscow square on Tuesday to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, pledging to deepen their friendship in the face of U.S. sanctions against both countries.

Reuters

Scavenging for supplies, Cuba's tobacco farmers rebuild after Hurricane Ian

When Hurricane Ian ripped through western Cuba last week, tobacco farmer Victoriano Maqueira lost the two large barns he used for drying his crop, as well as his dogs, chickens, a pig, his television and the roof off his home.

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Cuban protests after Hurricane Ian fade but anger over shortages simmers

By Dave Sherwood

Bangkok Post

Cuba votes to legalise same-sex marriage, surrogacy

HAVANA: Cubans voted to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption as well as surrogate pregnancies in a referendum over the weekend, the communist country's electoral officials said Monday.

Reuters

Cubans head to polls to vote on govt-sponsored code to legalize gay marriage, adoption

Cubans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote on a package of measures that would upend the island's long-held "machista" culture and legalize gay marriage even as the country wrestles with a deepening economic crisis.

Reuters

Cuban oil fire all but out, blackouts and gas lines lengthen

Cubans have been left to endure six- to 18-hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gasoline in the wake of a spectacular blaze that destroyed 40% of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only supertanker port.

Reuters

Cuba gets help from Mexico, Venezuela to fight oil fire

Cuba appeared to make progress on Sunday bringing under control a fire at its main oil storage facility that has killed one firefighter, drawing on help from Mexico and Venezuela to fight the raging flames.

The Independent UK

Dozens injured and 17 missing after lightning strike triggers huge fire at Cuban supertanker port

Uncontrollable blaze rages through night after oil storage tanks explode

Reuters

Cuba fire rages at fuel storage port; Mexico, Venezuela sending help

A massive oil-fed fire burned for a second day on Saturday near Cuba's supertanker port in Matanzas, as Mexico and Venezuela sent teams to help fight the inferno and Cuba accepted a U.S. offer of unspecified "technical advice".

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