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Cuba’s drug crisis: Families scour black market as pharmacies run dry, children’s lives hang in the balance
Malay Mail
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July 10, 2025
HAVANA, July 10 — Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs. On a near daily basis she sprints from one state-run pharmacy to...
Raekwon Dons ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ On New Album
Forbes
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Raekwon of Wu-Tang ClanGetty Images Staten Island-bred rapper Raekwon has been a looming figure in hip-hop since the Wu-Tang Clan’s debut in the early ’90s. In 1995, the “Ice Cream” rapper showed he can easily stand alone with his platinum-selling...
Birth rates in this part of the world are unexpectedly falling
Deseret News - Utah
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July 18, 2025
Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing significant, unexplainable declines in fertility rates. The U.S. fertility rate is now well below replacement level, which is expected to continue. Falling birth rates suggest potential...
Cuban national pleads guilty to $800K theft from elderly victim
Sunshine Sentinel - Florida
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July 9, 2025
Hayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida BarHayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida Bar MIAMI – Michel Duarte Suarez, a 50-year-old Cuban national,...
Cuba: Sweating or Being Cool, the USD Makes the Difference
Havana Times
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July 10, 2025
at the Carlos III shopping center in Havana At El Taller, a hardware store in the shopping center, employees only have two malfunctioning fans. / 14ymedio “The ACs are broken and the ones they’ve installed are ‘for where it’s needed,’” says a...
OFAC fines U.S. company over $600,000 for shipping to Cuba
OnCuba News
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July 12, 2025
Key Holding, LLC, a Delaware-based privately held global logistics company, must pay a $608,825 fine after reaching an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for potential civil liability for...
Inspiration for ‘Sex and the City’s’ main man reveals his life after New York
98 Rock - Maryland
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July 18, 2025
After two decades in the world of the Manhattan magazine scene, the man behind one of the most iconic characters in 2000s television has made Vermont his home. Ron Galotti, affectionately known around the world as “Mr. Big” chose the hidden hills...
eSIMs are taking over: Here’s the app that gives you free international data and even works on a cruise
Tech Advisor
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July 18, 2025
Travelling abroad for leisure or business is exciting and fun but rarely cheap. One of the most significant hidden expenses on holiday or business trips are foreign mobile roaming charges that hit you when you return home and it’s often too late...
Cuba Denounces U.S. Move To Tighten Economic Blockade
Our News Bahamas
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July 2, 2025
CUBA – Cuba is strongly condemning a new U.S. memorandum tightening travel and financial restrictions against the island. The move signed by President Donald Trump during his first week back in office reinforces a long-standing ban on American...
Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura detained at Alligator Alcatraz
CBS 4 Miami - Florida
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Arrested last week in Miami-Dade, Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura was transferred to South Florida's new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades. "I feel terrible not only for me, but for my daughter...
Ranked: America’s Top Walkable Cities for Visitors and Locals
Travelbinger
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July 18, 2025
Let’s be honest, America has a complicated relationship with walking. The grocery store is less than 50 yards away, and you decide to drive there. Cars rule, and walking drools. The doctors are always saying to get those 10,000 steps in, but it...
Cuba’s Top Diplomat to U.S. Notes Blockade Hurts Black Americans and Cubans Alike
The Washington Informer
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July 8, 2025
Cuba’s Deputy Director of U.S. Affairs Johana Tablada offered a sobering but impassioned critique of current U.S. policy toward Cuba, where she called on Americans — especially African Americans — to pay closer attention to the consequences of...
Rick Scott addresses Cuban protests and calls for release of Hamas hostages
Duval Times - Florida
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July 12, 2025
Senator Rick Scott has recently made several statements on social media addressing international political issues, focusing on Cuba and the ongoing hostage situation involving Hamas. His posts highlight support for political protesters in Cuba and...
Cuba Condemns U.S. Presidential Memorandum Tightening Economic Blockade: A Renewed Assault on Sovereignty
teleSUR
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Cuba rejects renewed U.S. measures tightening the economic siege.Photo:EFE. July 1, 2025 Hour: 9:45 pm Cuba vehemently rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum of June 2025 that intensifies the economic blockade, denouncing it as an imperialist...
U.S. sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations
NBC Connecticut
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July 12, 2025
The United States government announced Friday it was sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top officials for human rights violations and restricting access to visas on the anniversary of the biggest protests on the island in...
Cuba denounces Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Yemen
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 8, 2025
Cuba condemns Israeli bombings of Lebanon and Yemen Havana, July 8 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez condemned today, through his X account, the Israeli bombings of Lebanon and vital ports and infrastructure in Yemen. Through the...
Cuba Partnership to Help Boost Antigua’s Water Pressure
Antigua News Room
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July 8, 2025
Cuba Partnership to Help Boost Antigua’s Water Pressure Antigua and Barbuda is set to benefit from a new partnership with Cuba aimed at improving water distribution across the island, particularly in areas affected by low pressure. Information...
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US sanctions Cuban president on the fourth anniversary of historic protests
Firstpost
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July 12, 2025
The United States was restricting visas for the Cuban president and other high-ranking government officials, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an X post on the fourth anniversary of historic anti-government protests in Cuba read more The...
Cuba updates statistics on gender equality in the country
Cuban News Agency
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July 8, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 8 (ACN) Cuban National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI by its Spanish acronym) and the Cuban Women Federation (FMC by its Spanish acronym) presented today the update of the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (OCIG by...
Cuban president concluded extensive work agenda in Brazil
Cuban News Agency
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July 8, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 8 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Cuban president, concluded a busy work agenda in Brazil, where he participated at the 17th BRICS Summit, held under the theme "Environment, COP30, and Global Health." According to the official...