Cuba

An aerial view shows cars and damaged property in a flooded section of road from Holland Bamboo to Middle Quarters in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, on October 31, 2025

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Nearly 50 dead after Hurricane Melissa thrashes Caribbean

Melissa, one of the strongest storms on record to make landfall in the Caribbean, cutting off communities in Cuba, drenching Haiti and leaving at least 50 dead.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

01 November, 2025

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Syria

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Syria's Assad compares Castro's anti-US struggles to his own

The New Arab

26 November, 2016

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Algeria and Cuba allied by a shared revolutionary struggle

Yasmina Allouche

Yasmina Allouche

27 October, 2016

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Vietnam

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Russia: permanent Syria military presence, eyes on Cuba, Vietnam

The New Arab & agencies

08 October, 2016

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Iran's Rouhani heads for Cuba, Venezuela before UN assembly

The New Arab & agencies

16 September, 2016

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Yemen

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Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee freed and resettled in Italy

The New Arab

10 July, 2016

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Israel benefiting from right-wing influence in South America

Ramona Wadi

23 March, 2016

Cartoon - Obama in Cuba

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Obama scores foreign policy victory with historic Cuba visit

The New Arab & agencies

21 March, 2016

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Yemen

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White House 'drafting plan' to close Guantanamo

The New Arab & agencies

23 July, 2015

Doctors Englishsite Cuba

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US finally acknowledges victory of Cuban revolution

Said Arikat

18 December, 2014

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World leaders hail 'historic' US-Cuba rapprochement

Agencies

18 December, 2014

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ISIS

Ebola and the Arabs

Ali Anzola

29 October, 2014