Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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BT’s Rania Khalek was on the ground in Havana, Cuba, and spoke to Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, General director of the Finlay vaccine institute in Havana, which developed Cuba’s highly effective COVID-19 vaccine Soberana. They discussed how the U.S. blockade hampered the country’s vaccine development, how Cuba managed to develop five covid vaccines while under […]

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Breakthrough News was on the ground in Havana, Cuba where Rania Khalek spoke with Johana Tablada, General Deputy Director of US affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry. They discussed the US blockade hampering the country’s development, how socialism makes Cuba’s survival possible, why Cuba has such a strong anti-imperialist foreign policy, how Cuba sees the […]

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This is absolutely sickening. Sewage treatment has long been a problem in the Gaza Strip thanks to the illegal blockade, enforced by Israel, Egypt and the United States. But the recent crackdown by the Egyptian military on cross-border smuggling tunnels—one of the few lifelines that’s kept the besieged strip from descending into complete catastrophe—has led to […]

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A family of six was killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday when their house caught fire from a burning candle during a power outage.

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