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Joint cooperation with Cuba in coronavirus vaccine production ‘among priorities’: Iran official
Jan 01, 2021 11:48An Iranian Health Ministry official says the production of coronavirus vaccine in cooperation with Cuba is one of Tehran’s priorities after such other alternatives as purchasing from a foreign country and participation in the World Health Organization’s COVAX program.
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Iran, Cuba, Venezuela raise alarm on impact of sanctions in light of COVID-19
Dec 01, 2020 11:01Iran, Cuba and Venezuela host a virtual seminar at the UN headquarters in Vienna on unilateral sanctions and their impacts in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cuba could be on the brink of a revolutionary COVID vaccine, but US sanctions are slowing it down
Nov 27, 2020 16:50Dr. Helen Yaffe of Glasgow University, author of “We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World,” said: “Cuba now has four COVID-specific vaccine candidates under clinical trial. The fact that a small Caribbean island can achieve such a remarkable feat is testimony to its state-owned biotech sector, which is directed towards public health demands and integrated into its healthcare and education systems.
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Storm Eta on track to Florida after pounding Cuba
Nov 09, 2020 10:18Residents of Florida were preparing themselves on Sunday as Tropical Storm Eta began to head towards the southern US state.
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Iran, Cuba discuss enhanced global solidarity to counter US' economic terrorism
Nov 07, 2020 14:06Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he held talks with senior Cuban authorities about ways to strengthen global solidarity in the face of the US' economic terrorism and to promote bilateral relations.
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Zarif arrives in Havana after extensive talks in Caracas
Nov 06, 2020 10:31Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in the Cuban capital of Havana in the second leg of a Latin American tour, which earlier took him to Venezuela and is expected to end in Bolivia.
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US pullout from JCPOA, INF to seriously harm intl. security, Cuba warns
Oct 04, 2020 05:23Cuba’s foreign minister has warned about the serious repercussions of the Trump administration’s decisions to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as well as the Treaty of Short and Intermediate Range Missiles (INF) with Russia.
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At UN, Venezuela, Cuba rebuke US hegemony
Sep 22, 2020 15:04Venezuela and Cuba have called on the international community to put up a united front and fight the United States’ hegemony and its blockade against nations at a time of global crises, including the coronavirus pandemic.
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US bans private charter flights to Cuba to increase pressure on Havana
Aug 14, 2020 02:57The United States says it is suspending all private charter flights to Cuba, in yet another move to intensify economic pressure on the government of President Raul Castro over human rights accusations and its support for the Venezuelan government, which Washington seeks to overthrow.
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Trump hammers Cuba while Cuba cures the sick
Jun 21, 2020 14:49A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of the sanctions screws.