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The death toll from the August 6 fire at a supertanker port in Matanzas, Cuba, rises to 16. All the deceased were firefighters who were battling the blaze.
2022-08-17

Canada announces that it will withdraw half of its embassy staff in Cuba following the fourteenth confirmed illness since 2017 of a Canadian diplomat in the country.
2019-01-30

A tornado in eastern Havana, Cuba, kills three people and injures 174 others.
2019-01-28

Around ten heads of state attend the 17th Non-aligned Movement summit in Isla Margarita, Venezuela, including Evo Morales of Bolivia, Raúl Castro of Cuba, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro.
2016-09-17

President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
2015-04-14

China, Russia, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and Algeria are elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
2013-11-13

Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, undergoes cancer surgery in Cuba.
2012-12-11

The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez speaks on Venezuelan television that he is fighting cancer in Cuba.
2011-06-30

Cuba and its partners announce plans to drill for oil in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
2011-04-5

Cuba frees Ivan Hernandez, a dissident who refused to go into exile in Spain.
2011-02-19