According to local media, some families were evacuated but the rain and flooding were quick to hit

Storm Alberto drenches Cuba on the way to the USA

The Environment Agency has more than 20 flood warnings and more than 40 flood alerts in place covering much of Central Englan

Flash floods now hit UK after Cuba, US, Oman, forecasters announce 'danger to life'

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States was concerned about the "serious medical incident" and raised it with China's visiting State Councillor Wang Yi.

Mystery 'sonic influence' in China prompts U.S. warning to citizens

Most aircraft accidents take months to investigate. Cuban investigators have so far recovered the cockpit voice recorder and are still looking for the flight data recorder

Cuba plane crash: Death toll rises to 111, Mexico suspends lease company

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President Miguel Diaz-Canel said an investigation was underway into Friday's crash of the nearly 40-year-old Boeing 737, leased to the national carrier Cubana de Aviacion by a Mexican company

Cuba mourns after 107 killed in plane crash

The aircraft, on a domestic flight to Holguin in eastern Cuba, crashed shortly after taking off from Havana at 11 a.m. (1500 GMT). There were either 104 or 105 passengers, including five children, plus nine crew members, various state media said

Passenger plane crashes in Cuba, killing more than 100 people

Cuban state-run website Cubadebate reported that it was not yet known if there were any casualties

Cuba: Boeing 737 crashes with 104 people on board, casualties feared

Miguel Diaz-Canel was named Cuba's new president on Thursday

Raul Castro to remain head of Cuba's Communist Party until 2021

Canel secured 603 out of 604 votes in the National Assembly.

Miguel Diaz-Canel succeeds Raul Castro as Cuba's President

Mercedes Lopez Acea, the 53-year-old head of the Communist Party in Havana, could take on a larger role

Cuba to name first non-Castro leader since 1959

The vote, on Sunday, marks the penultimate step in a political process that will culminate next month with the selection of the Communist-ruled island's first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution

Cuba holds one-party vote as post-Castro era looms

Anti-Rohingya content includes explicitly racist political cartoons, falsified images and staged news reports. This content goes viral, normalizing hate speech and shaping public perception.

Opinion: How Facebook is playing a part in the Rohingya genocide

The US government made it tougher on Wednesday for Americans to visit Cuba and do business in the country, making good on a pledge by President Donald Trump to roll back his Democratic predecessor?s move toward warmer ties with Havana.

US government restricts travel and trade with Cuba

Academics who have studied Kennedy's killing on Nov 22, 1963 said they expected the?final batch of files to?offer?no major?new?details?on why Lee Harvey Oswald gunned Kennedy down

John F Kennedy assassination: Final files on investigation to be released

The goal of hajj is to create a global Muslim community, with no class distinctions but citizens of Qatar can't undertake hajj this year.

What is the spiritual significance of hajj to a Muslim?

Although Washington expelled two Cuban diplomats over the incidents, Cuba has said it was investigating the US?allegations and would never allow its territory to be used for any action against diplomatic personnel or their families

Cuba 'incidents' caused brain injury, nerve damage to diplomats

The 'wet foot, dry foot' policy, ended by Obama granted Cuban migrants residency after a year of arriving at the US

Hundreds of Cubans stranded after US repeals open door policy

Cuba's healthcare and education were lauded in a room that had representatives from 30 countries, but none from Western countries

India praises Fidel Castro at UN

A roundup in the country's east snared dozens and derailed street protests planned to demand that political prisoners be freed

Cuba: Clampdown on dissidents after Castro's death

Google servers in Cuba will store content from popular sites like YouTube, allowing the content to be delivered more quickly to Cuban users

Google signs internet deal with Cuba's telecommunications monopoly

The convoy carrying Castro's ashes journeyed across Cuba before arriving in Santiago de Cuba, the revolution's cradle

Castro's ashes arrive in Santiago de Cuba for burial

Americans who came on a 'people-to-people' tour to learn more about Cuban music ended up listening to lectures from musicians

No music or rum for tourists after Castro's death

The urn holding Castro's ashes began the four-day journey to the Cuban revolutionary icon's final resting place

'Viva Fidel!': Castro takes final voyage across Cuba

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