Sources: Straits Times
Cuba announces it has completely run out of diesel fuel due to a U.S. blockade of the island as blackouts in Havana now exceed 20-22 hours per day. 2026-05-14
Four Cuban nationals are killed and another is injured in a fire at an unlicensed migrant hostel in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia. 2026-01-27
Cuba says that the Abdala vaccine is proven to be 92% effective against COVID-19. 2021-06-21
Cuba expands their emergency vaccination plan to Havana and other parts of the island by using the Abdala vaccine. 2021-06-14
Russian opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny announces that he will end his three-week-long hunger strike in order to seek medical care, four days after being moved to a hospital due to the damage that the strike had inflicted on his body. 2021-04-23
According to candidate for Vice President of Argentina for the Together for Change alliance, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, there is a "destabilization plan in Latin America directly linked to Venezuela's and Cuba's governments' activities". Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie also expressed his concerns and said there were "calculated and identical methods of destabilization in the region". He blames Nicolás Maduro's government after Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello says there is a "Bolivarian breeze" in the region. 2019-10-22
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners. 2010-07-8
Iran releases film director Jafar Panahi after more than two months in custody, including a hunger strike, following an international campaign led by the actress Juliette Binoche. 2010-05-25
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