Sources: Straits Times
Thirty-nine health workers from Cuba arrive in Andorra, as the country's confirmed cases and death toll per capita becomes one of the highest in the world. 2020-03-29
General Debate opens at the UN Headquarters in New York City, with US President Donald Trump denouncing globalism and calling Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro "a Cuban puppet". 2019-09-24
President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. 2015-04-14
Cuba starts releasing political prisoners as part of an historic agreement with the United States announced last month. 2015-01-6
Panamanian authorities seize North Korean bulk carrier "Chong Chon Gang" after a missile is found on board. The captain of the ship, which was en route from Cuba, attempted to commit suicide. 2013-07-16
Two Palestinian prisoners held in Israel enter the 71st day of their hunger strikes. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern about the condition of the hunger strikers. 2012-05-9
At least 38 migrants from Haiti are found dead after their boat sank off the east coast of Cuba. 2011-12-25
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter ends a three-day visit to Cuba, saying that the American trade embargo and travel ban has damaged the people and disrupted progress. 2011-03-30
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