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Cuba and the US: Three Tenth Anniversaries
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 21, 2025
Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez and Josefina Vidal from the Cuban Foreign Ministry stand with US representatives as the Cuban flag is raised. July 20, 2015 Photo: Bill Hackwell By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on July 20, 2025 These days...
Gov. Polis discusses future of education with U.S. Ed. Secretary McMahon, entrepreneur Mark Cuban
The Gazette - Colorado
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Gov. Jared Polis revealed the culmination of his work as both the state’s highest elected official and chairman of the National Governors Association in improving public education Friday during the association’s summer meeting. Pulling from his...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Explained: A Detailed Review of Key Changes for the Healthcare Industry
JD Supra - California
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July 25, 2025
Introduction To offset the cost of other provisions in the bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) includes significant reforms to Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits that are expected to result in millions...
Cuba: It’s Not Loneliness, It’s State Abandonment
Havana Times
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July 22, 2025
Photo: El Toque By Yenys Laura Prieto (El Toque) HAVANA TIMES – For brief moments, Marilu Placencia Gonzalez thinks she’s alone. But she isn’t. She lives with her son Gerardo who has a mental health disorder. Marilu’s skin is dry and scaly like...
Iran, EAEU to approve free trade roadmap in 2025 as bilateral trade rises
Tehran Times
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August 2, 2025
TEHRAN – The Eurasian Economic Commission is preparing to approve a joint roadmap with Iran to implement their newly finalized free trade agreement. The roadmap will guide cooperation from 2025 through 2028 and is expected to be ratified during...
Cuba: 11 July, Four Years Later
14ymedio
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July 21, 2025
Díaz-Canel and all the henchmen who accompany him in government and in the inevitable repression are consumed by the fear of losing power. The 11th of July protests will forever remain in our history / 14ymedio 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 21...
Laos, Cuba reaffirm commitment to deepen ties
Xinhua News Agency
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VIENTIANE, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Laos and Cuba on Friday reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening and further developing the traditional friendship and cooperation between the two states and peoples, Lao News Agency reported. Officials from the...
Việt Nam, Cuba hold Political Consultation to deepen special friendship, comprehensive cooperation
Vietnam News Agency
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HÀ NỘI Việt Nam and Cuba have agreed on orientations and measures to further deepen and comprehensively develop their special friendship and comprehensive cooperation. Both countries will continue to coordinate closely on implementing the results...
Cuban Contestant Plummets Midair After Harness Failure On Telemundo's Miss Universe Latina
Latin Post
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July 21, 2025
En español The moment shocked millions of viewers. On Sunday night, Cuban contestant Laura Pérez suffered a terrifying fall during the live broadcast of Miss Universe Latina, Telemundo's popular reality show that selects the U.S. Latina...
Cuba Gooding Jr. Among Cast To Join Michael Bisping Thriller ‘Atlas King’ As Production Begins This Week In LA
Deadline
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July 21, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. is among cast to join Michael Bisping thriller Atlas King with filming underway this week in Los Angeles. Punch It Films is behind the movie written and directed by Nika Agiashvili (Daughter Of The Wolf)....
China, LAC chart new path of green energy cooperation
Global Times
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The SVP project in Brazil built by the China General Nuclear (CGN) Power Group Photo: Courtesy of CGN Editor's Note: The "Global Times Overseas China Week and Global South Dialogue: Seminar on Relations between China and Latin America and the...
Susanna Elliffe Is Winner Of The 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize!
Scoop
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Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:14 pm Press Release: NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Susanna Elliffe on winning the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her manuscript Relic Party. The...
New lithium mining project in Catamarca approved by RIGI
Buenos Aires Herald
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July 24, 2025
Argentina’s Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI, by its Spanish initials) committee approved a new lithium mining project in Catamarca. The project, spearheaded by Australian firm Galan Lithium, will entail a US$217 million investment. The...
Cuban President Díaz-Canel Acknowledges That Dollarization in Cuba Has Increased ‘Social Inequality’
14ymedio
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July 20, 2025
The solution to reducing this gap is not to rethink the effectiveness of the Ordinance, but to avoid the “concentration of wealth in a few hands,” he said. The president emphasized the importance of exports to attract much-needed foreign currency....
BRICS+ Series: Cuban Tourism Set Back as United Airlines Ends Direct Flights, Brazil steps in
IOL
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Cuba’s tourism sector, already contending with external pressures and regulatory complexities, faces a new challenge as United Airlines prepares to suspend its only direct flight between Houston and Havana. This development threatens to weaken a...
Cuba’s Indigents and Leaders
Havana Times
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July 20, 2025
From the Facebook page La Tijera By Francisco Acevedo HAVANA TIMES – Clearly, the talk of the week in Cuba was the unfortunate remarks—and swift dismissal—of the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera. She became the...
World Steel Association: June Steel Production Down by 5.8%
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 23, 2025
World crude steel production for the 70 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 151.4 million tonnes (Mt) in June 2025, a 5.8% decrease compared to June 2024. Crude steel production by region Africa produced 1.7 Mt in...
Connor DeSha Joins America Ferrera’s Take Fountain As Vice President Of Development and Production
Deadline
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July 24, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Connor DeSha has joined America Ferrera‘s production company Take Fountain as Vice President of Development and Production. A film and TV executive with over a decade of experience in creative development and production, DeSha was most...
Cuba Receives Rice from Colombia, Where There is Overproduction
14ymedio
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July 19, 2025
Producers will sell 1,404 tons and the Colombian government will subsidize export. The crisis in rice production in Cuba has forced the Government to take measures such as leasing land for the first time to a foreign company / 14ymedio 14ymedio,...
A Former Cuban Official Close to Raúl Castro’s Grandson Has Been Arrested in the US
14ymedio
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July 23, 2025
Owner of a successful business in Las Vegas, Jorge Javier Rodríguez Cabrera is in deportation proceedings. Rodríguez shared luxuries with “El Cangrejo” [center] that would be unthinkable for ordinary Cubans / Martí Noticias14ymedio, Havana, 22...