The Covid-19 vaccine being developed jointly by Argentina and Mexico will be for all of Latin America and the Caribbean and not for profit, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Thursday. Read more Argentina and Mexico Covid-19 vaccine for Latin America

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Cuban residents in Italy will hold their first virtual national meeting on Saturday, May 15, in Rome, to demand an end of the United States blockade against their country, the organizers said.

Read more Cuban residents in Italy convene virtual meeting
Ophthalmologists from the Cuban Medical Brigade in China returned to work in three hospitals on Tuesday, with the responsibility and protection necessary amid the emergency created by the COVID-19 outbreak. Read more Cuban medical collaborators return to work in hospitals in China

Another First Nation community in Canada has uncovered potential graves at a former “residential school,” as the country continues to grapple with the scale of the “horror” that occurred at the assimilation institutions that Indigenous children were forced to attend for decades.

Read more 169 graves found at former residential school in Canada

Russia and China need to work to further reduce their dependence on the dollar and switch to national currencies for trade in order to alleviate the risks of U.S. sanctions, says Russia’s top diplomat. In an interview with Chinese media, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow and Beijing “need to move away from the use of Western-controlled international payment systems."

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