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07 Oct 2022

Hurricane Ian: Second-deadliest storm hits livelihood in US- IN PICS

Hurricane Ian has turned the lives of Floridians upside down, as the death toll touches 100 mark. Out of the total deaths, 98 are reported in Florida. Other storm deaths includes five in North Carolina, three in Cuba and one in Virginia. Let us take a look at some of the horrifying pictures of the second-deadliest storms to hit the mainland United States in the 21st century.

11 Nov 2022

Hurricane Ian hits S-W Florida as category 4 storm, US Prez warns citizens

Hurricane Ian landed on the Florida coast at around 3:05 PM with maximum wind speed of 240 km per hour Reports say that Hurricane is causing "catastrophic" storm surges, winds, and flooding in the Florida Peninsula Around 2.5 million people had been ordered to evacuate southwest Florida before the storm hit the coast

11 Nov 2022

Ian strengthens into a hurricane, heads toward Cuba and Florida

A hurricane warning was in effect for Grand Cayman and the Cuban provinces of Isla de Juventud, Pinar del Rio and Artemisa.

07 Aug 2022

80 injured, 17 missing as lightning strikes oil storage facility in Cuba

Firefighters are still trying to quell the blaze at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, where the fire began during a thunderstorm Friday night.

Americas Summit

07 Jun 2022

US bars Cuba, Venezuela from Americas summit; Mexican, other leaders boycott

The White House excluded Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the US-hosted Summit of the Americas this week The move prompted Mexico`s president to make good on a threat to skip the event because all countries in the Western Hemisphere were not invited The boycott by Mexican President and some other leaders could diminish the relevance of the summit in Los Angeles

02 Aug 2021

Cuba registers new daily records for cases, deaths from Covid-19

5 per cent of the diagnosed patients are asymptomatic Experts are witnessing a new virus behaviour

05 Jul 2021

Cuba evacuates nearly 2 lakh people ahead of Tropical Storm Elsa

On Sunday (July 4) afternoon, Elsa was located about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south-southeast of Cabo Cruz, Cuba The storm killed one person in St Lucia, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

Atlantic hurricane

03 Jul 2021

Elsa threatens eastern Caribbean, becomes first Atlantic hurricane of 2021

A hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica and from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to Punta Palenque in the Dominican Republic. A hurricane watch was issued for the Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Granma, Guantanamo, Holguin, Las Tunas, and Santiago de Cuba.

17 Apr 2019

In major shift, Donald Trump to allow lawsuits against foreign firms in Cuba

The European Union has already warned it could lodge a challenge with the World Trade Organization.

31 Jan 2019

Canada to reduce staff at Cuba embassy after another diplomat falls ill

Canadian and US diplomats in Havana first began complaining of dizziness, headaches and nausea in the spring of 2017.

06 Sep 2018

Cubans use latex condoms to catch fish, ferment wine, fix punctures - Find out

Ferment wine, fix punctures or tie up hair - latex condoms have become the ultimate multipurpose tool on the Communist-run island.

Ram Nath Kovind

23 Jun 2018

India seeks Cuba's help in empowering developing nations

President Ram Nath Kovind in Havana pointed out the "warmth and friendship" between the two nations, and insisted that developing countries "must work together to gain a better place in the global order".

03 Jun 2018

Cuba holds parliament meeting to discuss constitutional reform

Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President Miguel Diaz-Canel have chaired an extraordinary session of the Caribbean nation`s parliament to discuss a constitutional reform.

Miguel Diaz-Canel

19 Apr 2018

Cuba marks end of an era as Castro hands over to Diaz-Canel

Miguel Diaz-Canel was on Thursday formally elected as Cuba's new president, succeeding Raul Castro.

19 Apr 2018

Castro rule nears end in Cuba as lawmakers vote on successor

Cuba's Raul Castro was just hours away from retiring as president on Wednesday, with his vice president Miguel Diaz-Canel set to replace him in a shift that will usher in the island's first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution.

Miguel Diaz-Canel

18 Apr 2018

Diaz-Canel formally proposed to replace Castro as Cuban president

Miguel Diaz-Canel was proposed in Cuba`s parliament on Wednesday as the sole candidate to replace Raul Castro as president.

Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart

02 Feb 2018

Fidel Castro's eldest son commits suicide, say reports

Castro Junior, 68, also known as "Fidelito" because of how much he looked like his father, had initially been hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment outside of hospital.

27 Nov 2017

Cuban revolutionary leader Armando Hart dies at 87

Armando Hart Davalos, a key figure of the Cuban revolution and close friend of Fidel Castro, died Sunday in Havana at the age of 87.

23 Nov 2017

Cuba, North Korea reject 'unilateral and arbitrary' US demands

Cuba`s foreign minister and his North Korean counterpart rejected the United States` "unilateral and arbitrary" demands on Wednesday while expressing concern about escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, the ministry said.

01 Nov 2017

US to vote against UN resolution calling for end to Cuba embargo

The United States will vote against a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Wednesday calling for the lifting of the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, reversing an abstention by Washington last year.

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