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Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane. Residents of the Tampa Bay area of Florida, United States, are ordered to evacuate.
2022-09-27

The United Nations votes 184-2 on a resolution ending the embargo on Cuba, with the United States and Israel being the lone no votes.
2021-06-23

The United States issues a health alert in China, following a government employee reporting "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure", one in a range of physical symptoms, from late 2017 through to April 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department is moving medical teams into place in Guangzhou, adding that the incident was "entirely consistent" with reported "sonic attacks" in Cuba in 2016 and 2017.
2018-05-23

For the first time in 25 years, the United States abstains in a United Nations vote calling for an end to its Cuban economic embargo.
2016-10-26

The United States and Cuba sign an agreement restoring commercial air traffic between the two countries for the first time in 50 years. The U.S. Department of Transportation immediately opened bidding for as many as 110 U.S.-Cuba flights per day to Havana and nine other destinations. Travel from the U.S. is permitted in 12 authorized categories, which does not include tourism.
2016-02-16

U.S. and Cuban officials sign an environmental accord in Havana, the first such agreement since the countries renewed diplomatic relations this summer.
2015-11-18

President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
2015-04-14

Shipper International Port Corp, with permission from the United States, delivers the first shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba, the first time in 50 years.
2012-07-14

The Obama administration in the United States eases travel and other restrictions on Cuba.
2011-01-14

Cuba's Speaker of the Parliament Ricardo Alarcón challenges the United States to lift its 48-year embargo on the island if it believes Cuba benefits from the embargo, as Hillary Clinton suggested.
2010-04-25