カテゴリー: Cuba
Miguel Díaz‑Canel says Cuba is willing to engage Washington amid the island’s deepening economic crisisAfter months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United St…
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Alleged trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang escaped via a tunnel in Mexico before flying to Cuba and reportedly Russia but now finds himself on trial in a Brooklyn courtroomThe China-Mexico fentanyl pipeline: increasingly sophisticated and deadlyLike so many gre…
Zhi Dong Zhang, known by alias ‘Brother Wang’, is also wanted by US and has alleged ties to Mexican drug cartelsCuba has arrested an alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin who escaped custody in Mexico in July and is also wanted by the US, Mexican security s…
Deportees include two people from Myanmar, two from Cuba, and one each from Vietnam, Laos and MexicoWar-torn South Sudan has said it is holding a group of eight men controversially deported from the United States.Only one of them is from South Sudan. T…
Ri Il-kyu was responsible for political affairs at Pyongyang’s embassy in Cuba, the Chosun Ilbo daily has reportedA senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, the South Korean spy agency has said, becoming the highe…
CSIS calls site near Guantánamo a ‘powerful tool’ that will be able to monitor air and maritime activity of US militarySatellite images appear to show that Cuba is building a new radar site likely to be capable of spying on the US’s nearby Guantánamo B…
Ukraine claims to have seized the village of Andriivka in Donetsk; Lukashenko says Belarus has been supplying Russia with fuelSee all our Ukraine coverage Continue reading…
Havana says it is dismantling network seeking to recruit Cubans as mercenaries as Moscow attempts to boost its forcesCuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight as mercenaries for Russia in its war in Ukraine, its fo…
Chinese intelligence collection from Cuba predates the Biden era, with facilities upgraded in 2019, White House official saysChina has been spying from Cuba for some time and upgraded its intelligence collection facilities there in 2019, a Biden admini…
Facility would allow Beijing to gather electronic communications from US but Cuba dismisses report as ‘unfounded’China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160km) from Fl…
As Hurricane Ian hits the Americas, Noru has been ripping through the Philippines, Vietnam and ThailandHurricane Ian has been in the headlines but it is not the only storm that has been causing havoc in the past week. On Tuesday, Typhoon Noru struck so…
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Rights campaigners voice concerns as Cuba and Pakistan also expected to be electedChina, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are expected to be elected to the board of the UN human rights council on Tuesday, leaving human rights campaigners in the …
For the UN’s first virtual general assembly, monarchs and presidents have faced presentational issues with their recorded messagesIn the age of the pandemic, the Zoom call background has become the latest social anxiety. Each choice is littered with po…