Sources: Straits Times
The Mexican health regulatory authority COFEPRIS approves the emergency use of the Cuban-made Abdala COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-12-29
Cuba reports a record for the second consecutive day of 7,784 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 316,383. 2021-07-23
The United States officially removes Cuba from its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. 2015-05-29
President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. 2015-04-14
The Cuban Roman Catholic Church claims that the Government of Cuba plans to release 10 dissidents including Óscar Elías Biscet. 2011-03-10
Another group of asylum seekers starts a new protest at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, Australia, while other detainees continue a hunger strike. 2010-09-22
Three more dissidents released by Cuba on humanitarian grounds arrive in Spain. 2010-07-22
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners. 2010-07-8
Cuban President Raúl Castro "laments" the death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata, who was on a hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest of prison conditions in the country. 2010-02-24
Authorities in Cuba are investigating the death of 26 patients at a psychiatric hospital after a spell of unusually cold weather. 2010-01-16