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Cuba reports 9,323 cases of COVID-19, a new single-day record.
2021-07-28

The Senate begins to debate the legalization of abortion up until the 14th week of pregnancy. If passed, Argentina will become the third Latin American country to allow abortion to be performed on demand, after Cuba and Uruguay. The Catholic Church opposes the move. The bill has already been approved by the lower house.
2020-12-29

Iranian authorities execute once-exiled dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam over his online work that helped inspire the 2017–2018 Iranian protests. This comes after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence on Tuesday.
2020-12-12

Cuban state television announces that former President Fidel Castro has died at age 90.
2016-11-26

Cuba announces plans to send 165 medical staff to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus outbreak that has claimed more than 2,400 lives.
2014-09-12

An Irish archbishop claims the Catholic Church has no records on the burial of 796 children in a disused concrete septic tank at a building it runs in Tuam.
2014-06-5

Giving his first audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis tells journalists he wants "a poor Church, for the poor".
2013-03-16

President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez returns home after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba.
2013-02-18

China describes recent criticism of its control on the Catholic Church by the Vatican as "imprudent and ungrounded".
2010-12-23

Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro makes his first televised appearance in nearly a year, predicting possible nuclear war in the Middle East.
2010-07-13