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Droughts, rising sea levels, Cuba's agriculture under threat

Like the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba is suffering from longer droughts, warmer waters, more intense storms, and higher sea levels because of climate change

The Independent UK

Cuba agrees to accept U.S. deportation flights as border crossings rise

Cuba has agreed for the first time since the pandemic to accept U.S. deportation flights carrying Cubans caught at the U.S.-Mexico border, three U.S. officials told Reuters, giving U.S. authorities a new but limited tool to deter record numbers of Cuban border crossers.

Reuters

Does Britain have a £50bn fiscal black hole? It depends who you ask

A month and 60 years ago, the world almost came to an end. The Soviet Union had deployed ballistic missiles in Cuba, the United States imposed a quarantine around the island and both sides contemplated the annihilation of the other before a peaceful resolution was found. We called it the…

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High-level U.S. delegation visits Havana amid migration crisis

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Reuters

'Work was taking over my life - but a solo holiday changed everything'

Ellie Twigger decided to go on a WeRoad holiday to Cuba, having suffered from burnout by working hard and saving for a mortgage in her job as an account director

Daily Mirror

US expected to ease Esta ban for Cuba visitors

Exclusive: Customs & Border Protection expected to ease backdated sanctions

The Independent UK

Cuban migrants arrive in Miami Beach near Deauville hotel, and more in the Florida Keys

MIAMI — Twelve Cuban migrants arrived in a homemade boat on the sands of a former Miami Beach hotel Thursday night, according to the Border Patrol.

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Cuba to send Mexico rocks as well as docs

After raising controversy by hiring hundreds of Cuban doctors, Mexico's president is set to anger critics again, by announcing plans to buy crushed rock ballast from Cuba for a tourist train project

The Independent UK

UN General Assembly rebukes US embargo on Cuba

Resolution condemning embargo on Cuba passes 185-2, marking 30th time the UN has rebuked the decades-old US policy.

Al Jazeera

Cuba and U.S. spar over U.N. resolution calling to end embargo

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, leaving relations frosty between the two longtime rivals.

Reuters

UN votes overwhelmingly to condemn US embargo of Cuba

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for the 30th year, with the Biden administration continuing former President Donald Trump's opposition and refusing to return to the Obama administration’s 2016 abstention

The Independent UK

Cuba embargo: Why does the US continue to reject UN moves to end it?

Now 60 years old, the trade embargo on Cuba has been perpetuated primarily at the behest of Washington. When it was imposed in 1962, John F. Kennedy was US president and Fidel Castro was the revolutionary leader of Cuba: a Communist too close for comfort for Washington at the height…

France 24

U.S. says China resisting nuclear talks after Xi vow to boost deterrent

Despite the lesson of the Cuban missile crisis 60 years ago, China has shown no interest in discussing steps to reduce the risk posed by nuclear weapons, senior U.S. officials said on Tuesday, after Chinese leader Xi Jinping signaled last month that Beijing would strengthen its strategic deterrent.

Reuters

Survivors of collision at sea say their boat was rammed by Cuban coast guard vessel

Elizabeth Meizoso was a happy toddler who liked to pose with her mom’s sunglasses. She is seen dressed all in white with a bow headband in one picture. In another, she is driving a toy red car. Smiling relatives hold her while taking selfies posted on Facebook. She had just…

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The Independent UK

Former Latin American leaders urge U.S. change on Cuba

Eighteen former Latin American and Caribbean leaders have signed a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden asking the United States to remove its six-decade embargo on Cuba in the wake of devastation inflicted on the island by Hurricane Ian

Miami Herald

More than 100 Cuban migrants in several groups have arrived in Florida Keys in recent days

MIAMI — Since Sunday, more than 100 Cuban migrants have arrived in the Florida Keys, with another landing happening Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Miami’s radicalization is astonishing: Cuban Americans won’t get off the Trump train

Cuban Americans in Miami are proving Donald Trump right on one issue.

Miami Herald

Child among 5 dead in collision of boat with migrants and Cuban Coast Guard

A young child is among five dead after a speed boat carrying Cubans collided with a Cuba Coast Guard vessel, Cuban authorities said. The Cubans were trying to make it to the United States when the Cuban Coast Guard vessel tried to stop it and it turned over.

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Russia's Lavrov needles Biden over Cuban missile crisis and Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin's foreign minister on Sunday needled Joe Biden over Ukraine, saying that he hoped the U.S. president had the wisdom to deal with a global confrontation similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

WEKU

Cuba says at least 5 dead after boat heading to US crashes

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

The Independent UK

Crisis-stricken Cuba torn between ally Russia, neighbor U.S.

Hurricane Ian caused an island-wide blackout when it tore through western Cuba in late September

Miami Herald

In Florida’s most Hispanic district, Latina politicians spar over immigration and socialism

MIAMI — Not three weeks had passed since Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines all over the country after taking credit for sending planes full of mostly undocumented Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard when U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar — a Cuban American freshman congresswoman from Miami — addressed…

Miami Herald

How Republicans’ ground operation with Hispanics could deliver Miami-Dade for DeSantis

MIAMI — Becoming a U.S. citizen was not at the top of Ovidio Rodriguez’s to-do list this year, though the Hialeah resident recently became eligible to apply after leaving Cuba five years ago.

The Guardian - AU

Cuban missile crisis, 60 years on: new papers reveal how close the world came to nuclear disaster

In 1962, a Soviet submarine commander nearly ordered a nuclear launch, newly translated accounts show, with modern parallels over Ukraine all too clear

Tribune News Service

‘The Cuban Sandwich’ savors the history of a favorite food and its culture

"The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers" by Andrew T. Huse, Barbara C. Cruz and Jeff Houck; University Press of Florida (162 pages, $24.95)

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