Vote Wednesday - 130 in favour, 17 against, 25 abstentions - resolution "Necessity of ending economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by USA against Cuba." US embargo since 1962 - Kennedy - after Bay of Pigs - Helms-Burton 1996.
US campaign to influence outcome led to number of countries voting against or sitting out for first time - e.g., Ukraine, Israel, some EU? Actually 17 against includes US, Israel, Ukraine, etc.
Cuba says embargo costs $15 bn yearly - blockade hinders medicines, food - after COVID.
For 34th year UN condemns - non-binding - but moral pressure.
Also - Trump says meeting with Putin, Zelenskyy to be set up very soon - Kremlin and Zelenskyy said meeting between Kyiv, Washington, Moscow in November - Trump mediating?
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Iran court sentences filmmaker Jafar Panahi to five years in absentia - plus two-year travel ban - Panahi's film It Was Just an Accident won top prize at 2025 Cannes - arrested several times for filmmaking - Iran crackdown on artists.
One killed, five injured in gunfire along Afghanistan-Pakistan border - Afghan Taliban fired at civilian houses and market in Angoor Adda town Waziristan - Pakistan responded with brief artillery fire — border tensions — TTP.
For India - Cuba embargo - India always votes for Cuba - solidarity - Global South - India-Cuba trade $50 mn - medicines.
US embargo - extraterritorial - affects Indian companies dealing with Cuba - e.g., UCO Bank.
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