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  • Manuel Marrero Cruz tells Chinese tourism representatives in Beijing the US embargo on Cuba is dampening an already dire economy
  • Xi Jinping welcomes the use of Chinese platforms such as international import expo to bring Cuban products into the Chinese market
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The UN General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba. The non-binding resolution was approved by 187 countries.

Washington at risk of being ‘out-competed’ by Beijing’s aggressive investment in the region, particularly in critical infrastructure like 5G.

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Latin American nations are strengthening relations with China amid a belief that Washington’s focus turned to the Middle East and now the Indo-Pacific.

A Biden administration official said the US intelligence community has been aware of China’s spying from Cuba and a larger effort to set up intelligence-gathering operations around the globe for some time.

Gary Prado Salmon was in charge of a patrol in southwestern Bolivia on October 8, 1967, that captured the Argentine revolutionary and Bolivia’s Congress declared him a national hero.

Evidence casts doubt on suspicions that Russia or another country is using directed energy attacks on American personnel around the world, officials say.

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A news outlet reported the singer started throwing the bills from a car in front of a Havana hotel where he was staying, while others said he dropped cash from a hotel window.

Group messaging has become one popular avenue for people to find goods unavailable in stores as internet usage booms on the communist-governed island.

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel will visit Beijing, where he is expected to meet President Xi Jinping, as the final stop on a mission to secure support for crisis-stricken Caribbean country.

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Agenda and guest list not finalised until days before, a controversy that could have been defused if handled earlier: one critic calls it ‘amateur hour’.

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The United States is this week hosting the 2022 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. But President Joe Biden faced a struggle to make a success of a summit plagued by problems before it even began.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in his remarks in Cuba’s capital Havana, also said he would keep pushing for the US to lift its decades-old embargo against Cuba.

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Russia raised the stakes in its dispute with the West over Ukraine and Nato’s expansion when a top diplomat refused to rule out a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela.

Advocates say an ‘orderly departure programme’, like those previously run in Vietnam and Cuba, could offer safe passage out of Afghanistan for would-be refugees.

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The US Treasury Department said the sanctions were a reaction to ‘actions to suppress peaceful, pro-democratic protests in Cuba that began on July 11.’

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More than 100 people, including independent journalists and dissidents, have been arrested after unprecedented anti-government protests in Cuba, with some remaining in custody.

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