One hundred eighty-seven states voted for the resolution put forward each year against the embargo, with only the U.S. and Israel voting against it and Ukraine abstaining.
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday elected 15 new countries to serve on the Human Rights Council, with Peru and Russia failing to secure a seat.
Cuban President Miguel Bermúdez has called for a “just global contract” in the face of rising hunger and poverty.
Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday departed Nigeria to represent President Bola Tinubu at the G77+China Leaders’ Summit in Havana, Cuba.
Mexican authorities have found no fewer than 200 migrants in an abandoned lorry in the south-eastern state of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico.
The 31st course participants, on a visit to the country engaged in various activities, including visits to military installations.
In 2002, the Rabbani brothers were arrested by authorities in their home-country for allegedly operating al-Qaida safe houses.
The UN warns the recent U.S. border policy reforms “risk undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law.”
The U.S. said these countries “harass, threaten, jail, and even kill individuals on account of their beliefs.”
The UN condemned the U.S. embargo against Cuba, describing it as an “unfair and unjustifiable act of economic violence aimed at strangling the Cuban people.”
