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Cuba says that the Abdala vaccine is proven to be 92% effective against COVID-19.
2021-06-21

Cuba reports their first case of a variant from South Africa in an asymptomatic person who travelled from the country.
2021-01-22

Former Hurricane Eta, now a tropical depression, moves toward Cuba after regaining strength. The government of the Bahamas issues a tropical storm watch while a state of emergency is declared in Miami-Dade County, Florida, as the state also prepares for the impact of the storm. The storm left at least 100 people dead in Central America.
2020-11-7

Citing "influence operations against the United States," the US expels two Cuban diplomats at the United Nations. Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla dismisses the accusations as "vulgar slander."
2019-09-19

Fidel Castro appears in public for the first time in many months. A photograph of the Cuban revolutionary leader appears to show him "doing very well."
2012-10-21

Cuba claims U.S. President Barack Obama was forced to use his "imperial veto" to stop the summit calling for an end to the U.S. embargo against it.
2012-04-18

54 Somalis fleeing the civil war in Libya drown after their boat sinks off the coast of Tripoli.
2011-05-10

Gaddafi's forces commit mass rape of women in battle of Misrata.
2011-04-18

An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board.
2010-11-5