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The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (Mincex) convened the 38th Havana International Fair, Fihav 2022, after two years suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic.»

Several groups, U.S. activists, and solidarity associations are preparing for the U.S.-Cuba International Normalization Conference, to be held on March 19 and 20 in Manhattan, New York.»

Russian airline Aeroflot today reported the cancellation of its flights to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the United States from February 28 to March 2 due to the closure of Canadian airspace. »

Cuba today reported 630 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, virus that causes Covid-19, which represents an increase of 21 with respect to the previous day, but no deaths.»

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko assured on Friday to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over the telephone that he is ready to create all conditions for the negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine. »

Cuba's Food Industry Minister Manuel Sobrino said that the measures implemented to boost agricultural production show effectiveness in this sector, particularly in milk and meat deliveries to processing plants, two essential items for the population that replace imports.»

A new computer application developed in Cuba in favor of animal welfare is now available at the national and international platform store APKLIS under the name of BACuba.»

The Cuban state's fight against international drug trafficking led to the seizure of 4,162.23 kilograms of narcotics in 2021, said Colonel Héctor González Hernández, deputy chief of the Anti-Drug Confrontation Division of the Technical Directorate of Investigations (DTI).»

Through the lens of German filmmaker Andreas Dresen, the Berlin International Film Festival, known as Berlinale, screened Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush, a docu-drama about about the experiences of prisoner Murat Kurnaz, imprisoned at the US base from 2002 to 2006, as one of the injustices committed at the Guantanamo naval base, a Cuban territory illegally occupied by the United States.»

Soon after the world was forced into confinement by the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, the effects became noticeable in international trade as border closure restrictions affected maritime transport, which moves about 80% of the goods consumed on the planet, according to estimates by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.»