Turkey and Cuba have signed an agreement to bolster cooperation and reduce bureaucracy in the maritime field, Turkish authorities revealed on Friday. The agreement was signed by Selim Dursun,...

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In recent years, Cuba has been forced to diversify its sources of financing to guarantee its collaboration and the survival of the Cuban health system itself, one of the great social gains of the Revolution.
A former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Mullah Muhammad Nabi Omari, recently appeared in the Taliban delegation scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Fayez Al-Kandari claimed on...
A senior Hamas delegation headed by its chief in Lebanon, Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, met on Wednesday with Cuba's Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Moraga, a statement disclosed. The meeting took place in...
Unique in the modern era, there have been 11 presidents in Latin America with Arab origins (ten plus one President-elect), a result of more than a century of Arab...
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December 3, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi State violence against indigenous populations is arguably the most visible of human rights violations and, conversely, of the least concern to the international community. After the military coup in...
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Venezuela![Former South African President Nelson Mandela's grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela joins hundreds of demonstrators at an inter-denominational march of members of pro-Palestinian groups and other civil society organisations during the holy month of Ramadan in Durban on June 2, 2018, to protest against Israel's handling of protests and violence in the Palestinian territories. [RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-966064972.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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Today, the 5th August marks 57 years since President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's arrest near Howick, KwaZulu Natal, in 1962. The Apartheid regime was in cahoots with the CIA and...
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Muhammad Hussein Imagine an Atlantic region where Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela teamed up to sign a new landmark NAFTA-like agreement, distributing amongst themselves the oil and natural gas reserves off...
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Venezuela The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for the lifting of unilateral economic sanctions, Sunday. This came in a statement adopted at a ministerial meeting in Caracas, in which the speakers...
The United States has tightly restricted the travel of more than a dozen Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York, according to a US diplomatic note to...

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July 13, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi In 1947, Cuba was one of the few countries opposing the UN Partition Plan, which laid the groundwork for Israel's colonisation of Palestine. At the time, the Cuban envoy...
Saudi Arabia, Russia, and 35 other states have written to the United Nations supporting China's policies in its western region of Xinjiang, according to a copy of the letter...
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Venezuela The government of Barbados, which froze its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in 2013, decided on Friday to withdraw its recognition. According to a joint statement signed...
Palestinian Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) condemned, Monday, renewed US sanctions on Cuba, Safan news agency reported. In a statement reported by Safa, the PDFLP said...
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Videos & Photo Stories Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine and the Cuban Embassy will take part in a joint ceremony marking 70 years since the Palestinian Nakba today. A flower laying ceremony...
Iraq's Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, has called on Cuba to cooperate in tackling its debt to Baghdad, not least because his country is experiencing exceptional circumstances due to low...
Algeria is set to receive more doctors from Cuba in return for suppling crude oil in helping to offset a steep decline in oil shipments from Cuba's key ally...
Delegates from some of the largest grassroots organisations in Latin America have "condemned the refusal of certain Caribbean countries to recognise the legitimate right of the people of Palestine...
Palestinian Health Minister Jawad Awwad announced yesterday that a Palestinian medical team had travelled to the Caribbean to offer help to people hit by the category five hurricane, Raya.ps...

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September 1, 2017 |
Suleiman Bulbulia In June, a conference aimed at bringing together leading technology companies from Israel and entrepreneurs and business experts from the Caribbean was held in Bridgetown, Barbados; it was met...