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Cuba reports their first case of a variant from South Africa in an asymptomatic person who travelled from the country.
2021-01-22

Tropical storm warnings are issued for western Cuba and the northwestern Bahamas, and tropical storm warnings are announced for coastal South Florida in the U.S., as a strengthening Tropical Storm Philippe treks north-northeast with maximum sustained winds at 35 mph (55 km-h).
2017-10-28

Tens of thousands of people in northern Puerto Rico are ordered to evacuate after floodwaters from Hurricane Maria damage the Guajataca Dam.
2017-09-22

Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida as a category 4 hurricane, killing at least three people and knocking out power to over one million households.
2017-09-10

Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Cuba. The death toll across the Caribbean is at least 25 people,
2017-09-9

Hurricane Irma's death toll this week is at least 21 people after recently hitting Cuba and The Bahamas as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 km-h).
2017-09-8

Irma has killed at least 14 people. The storm, still at Category 5 strength with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km-h), is moving west-northwest at 16 mph (26 km-h). It has reached the dual-country island of Hispaniola and is forecast to pass over the Turks and Caicos Islands as it heads towards The Bahamas and Cuba. The eye did not directly hit Puerto Rico; still casualties are reported and around two-thirds of its 3.4 million population are without electricity.
2017-09-7

Hurricane Irma makes first landfall on Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Anguilla in the northeastern Leeward Islands. Irma has maintained 185 mph winds for 24 hours, setting another record for Atlantic and eastern Pacific storms.
2017-09-6

Rick Sanchez, a Cuban-born news anchorman with the American channel CNN, is fired by the network after calling comedian Jon Stewart a "bigot", saying Jews are not an oppressed minority in the United States, and implying the people who run CNN and other news media are Jewish. [https:--www.bbc.co.uk-news-11458523 (BBC)] [http:--timesofindia.indiatimes.com-world-us-CNN-fires-anchor-Rick-Sanchez-for-calling-Jon-Stewart-a-bigot-articleshow-6671109.cms ("The Times of India")] [http:--www.nzherald.co.nz-world-news-article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10677702&ref=rss (AP via "The New Zealand Herald")]date=August 2019
2010-10-2

Three more dissidents released by Cuba on humanitarian grounds arrive in Spain.
2010-07-22