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Cuba’s drug crisis: Families scour black market as pharmacies run dry, children’s lives hang in the balance
Malay Mail
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July 10, 2025
HAVANA, July 10 — Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs. On a near daily basis she sprints from one state-run pharmacy to...
Cuba Updates National Terrorist List, Denounces U.S. Inaction Amid Growing Violence
teleSUR
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July 11, 2025
Cuba denounces U.S. inaction as it expands national terrorism watchlist.Photo:TeleSUR July 10, 2025 Hour: 10:47 pm Cuba expands its list of individuals and organizations accused of terrorism, highlighting ongoing threats from actors based mainly...
Cuba: Protesters Detail Abuses in Prison
Human Rights Watch
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July 11, 2025
Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison, including beatings, solitary confinement, and lack of medical care. While some were released, they say they remain...
Cubans Head to Pan American Children's and Youth Basque Pelota Competition
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 11, 2025
Basque Pelota Havana, July 10 (RHC) - The team representing Cuba in the Pan American Children's and Youth Basque Pelota Championship traveled today to Mexico, host of the competition between the 16th and 20th of this month. Lázaro Mendoza Simón,...
Immigration enforcement should be proportional
Florida Catholic
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ORLANDO | So 40 miles due east from Everglades City and 55 miles due west from downtown Miami lies a center of controversy surrounding the complicated issue of immigration. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as it has become known, is in Ochopee, Florida,...
Cuba: 421 July 11, 2021, Protesters Still Imprisoned
Havana Times
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July 10, 2025
File photo of demonstrators being repressed during the 11J protests. The arrests continue of Cubans who dare to protest. In June, the regime arrested eight people, several for protesting blackouts in Guanabacoa. By 14ymedio HAVANA TIMES – On the...
Cuba ready for 2025 Junior Pan Am Games
Cuban News Agency
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July 10, 2025
According to José Antonio Miranda, general director of High Performance at the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation (INDER), 230 Cuban athletes (117 men and 113 women) will compete in 28 sports. He remarked that Cuba...
Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz asks Secretary of State to demand Cuba release political prisoners
WLRN - Florida
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July 11, 2025
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, has penned a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking the Trump administration to help free hundreds of political prisoners she says have been wrongfully detained by the Cuban authoritarian...
In Cuba, Communist China Trades Places with Russia
The New York Sun
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July 11, 2025
Communist China is quietly displacing Russia as Cuba’s largest investor, trading partner, and strategic ally. Decades ago, the Moscow-Havana link came into view during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union,...
Huge summit with Mark Cuban, Wyclef Jean comes to Detroit, its first time not in NYC
MLive - Michigan
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July 11, 2025
DETROIT - Leaders from all over the world, from all walks of life, descended upon Detroit for a huge global action summit. Global Citizen NOW held its first-ever U.S. edition summit outside of New York City at the newly constructed Hudson’s...
The Trump team ratchets up its punishment of Cuba
MinnPost - Minnesota
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July 11, 2025
Cityscape | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city life, transportation, planning and more in his column delivered to your inbox weekly. This week, following what it said was a comprehensive review of U.S. policy toward Cuba,...
The punishment for protesting in Cuba: Beatings, solitary confinement and sleep deprivation
El País
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July 11, 2025
Beatings, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, constant surveillance, lack of medical care, insufficient food, and unsanitary conditions. The punishments inflicted on detainees from the protests that began on July 11, 2021, in Cuba — which...
Spanish archbishop encourages Christians to read Rule of St. Benedict
Catholic News Agency
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July 11, 2025
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 11, 2025 / 05:00 am Archbishop Enrique Benavent Vidal of Valencia in Spain encouraged the faithful to take advantage of summer vacation to read and delve deeper into the Rule of St. Benedict, as it contains “insights that are...
Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura detained at Alligator Alcatraz
CBS 4 Miami - Florida
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Arrested last week in Miami-Dade, Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura was transferred to South Florida's new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades. "I feel terrible not only for me, but for my daughter...
Asylum claims in Canada soaring as US tightens immigration policies
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 11, 2025
A growing number of migrants in the U.S. are heading north to seek asylum, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own. During the first six days of July, Canadian officials at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border...
‘Once the church of presidents … now an engine of resistance’
Baptist News Global
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July 10, 2025
Acknowledging a history marked by power in high places that included 54 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and 11 presidents including George Washington, the top officer of the Episcopal Church in the United States declared the...
Community backs culture in Aurora Cultural Centre’s 2025-2026 season
The Auroran
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July 10, 2025
July 10, 2025 · 0 Comments From the British Invasion, to Caribbean beats, to a splash of famed children’s author Robert Munsch, the Aurora Cultural Centre is offering something for everyone in its upcoming performing arts season – and they’re...
New measures adopted by Donald Trump against Cuba
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 11, 2025
After failing to overthrow the Cuban Revolution for six decades, the hawks in Washington, supported by wealthy Cuban-American mafiosi who profit from their dirty policy, have continued to intensify their genocidal hostility against a people who...
The Weekend Itinerary — How to Spend 48 Hours in Arles, the "Little Rome of Provence", According to Our Lifestyle Editor
Livingetc
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July 11, 2025
Every image-maker will know there isn't a more exciting time of the year to travel to Arles than July, when Les Rencontres d'Arles, one of the foremost photography festivals in the world, gathers over 100,000 visitors from all corners of the globe...
Trump Enforces Stricter Cuba Policy, Cracks Down On US Tourism
Travel Noire
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July 10, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed a new memorandum imposing tighter restrictions on Cuba, taking direct aim at tourism and economic practices that benefit the Cuban government and military. The White House announced that it would enforce an...