World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab steps down from the board after 54 years, 80-year-old Austrian Vice Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe unanimously appointed as chairman ad interim and a search committee has been established for the selection of a future chair
Pope Francis dead at 88 on Easter Monday, was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia in February and spent 38 days in hospital before he returned to his Vatican residence
China raises its levies on US goods to 125% from 84%, US tariff rate on Chinese imports now at 145%, China reiterates it will continue to resolutely counter-attack and fight to the end, Chinese President Xi Jinping says in a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that there is no winner in a tariff war
Donald Trump announces a complete three-month pause on all reciprocal tariffs except on China where they will be increased to 125%, says the decision is based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World's markets and that the country will realize that the days of ripping off the US and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable
EU offers the US a zero-for-zero tariff scheme for industrial goods to avoid a trade war, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Europe is always ready for a good deal but adds that they are also prepared to respond through countermeasures
China imposes 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the US following Washington's decision to impose 34% of additional reciprocal levies on China, implements export controls on seven types of rare earth-related items and files a formal complaint against the US with the World Trade Organization, Donald Trump comments on Truth Social that China has played it wrong and panicked
Donald Trump says US will 100% annex Greenland, adds that there is good possibility that they can do it without military force but that he doesn't take anything off the table, comments that he doesn't think about what message the annexation will send to for instance Russia as Greenland is a very separate and different subject concerning international peace and security
The Trump administration warns European companies that DEI programs are banned if they want to keep their US government contracts, sends out questionnaire ordering the companies to certify their compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws
Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff says Ukraine has agreed to organize presidential elections, adds that a peace deal would include Ukraine not being able to be a NATO member but that it is open for discussion to add the country to security guarantees similar to the alliance's Article 5 collective defense clause
67,042 Afrikaners express interest in Donald Trump's plan to give them refugee status, most on the list are parents between 25 and 45 years of age, according to the US Embassy in South Africa
Rodrigo Duterte arrested and extradited to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, former Philippine president charged with crimes against humanity allegedly committed as part of war on drugs where thousands were executed without trial
Donald Trump says that he has agreed with Vladimir Putin on immediate ceasefire on all energy and infrastructure the next 30 days, Trump writes on Truth Social that they will be working quickly to have a complete ceasefire and ultimately an end to the very horrible war, Russia comments that the key condition to preventing an escalation of the war would be the suspension of foreign military aid and foreign intelligence to Ukraine
US forces in cooperation with Iraq and Kurds kill IS terrorist deputy caliph Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai also known as Abu Khadijah in an airstrike outside Mosul, Donald Trump comments on Truth Social that al-Rifai's miserable life has been terminated, Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani writes on X that the Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism
The US expels South Africa's ambassador to Washington Ebrahim Rasool, Secretary of State Marco Rubio writes on X that Rasool is persona non grata as he is a race-baiting Trump hater with whom they have nothing to discuss, the ejection follows a period of increased tensions between the countries
Ukraine agrees to immediate 30-day ceasefire as the US lifts its restrictions on military aid and intelligence sharing, the countries also say the mineral deal will be signed as soon as possible, Donald Trump says he meets Russia shortly and hopes they are also ready to agree to the ceasefire
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops nearly encircled in Russia's Kursk after Russian forces regain territory and cut off Ukraine's key supply lines in a three-day counter offensive, Donald Trump who is determined to end the war as soon as possible comments that he finds it more difficult to deal with Ukraine and that he strongly considers widespread sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a peace deal is reached
British PM Keir Starmer says he and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to work on a peace plan for Ukraine along with up to two other countries, adds that any plan will rely on American military cooperation
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says he has spoken to Volodymyr Zelensky twice since the White House meeting and that he told him it is important that he finds a way to restore his relationship with the American president and the senior American leadership team, adds that Trump has to be given credit for providing weapons to Ukraine and that the US commands respect for their support
Volodymyr Zelensky leaves the White House without signing minerals deal after stormy Oval Office meeting where both Donald Trump and JD Vance called him disrespectful and ungrateful toward the US and Trump said he was gambling with the lives of millions of people, Trump comments on Truth Social that Zelensky can come back when he is ready for peace
India's first dedicated transgender healthcare clinic Mitr Clinic in Hyderabad closes after the Trump administration USAID freeze, the clinic which was established in 2021 by USAID in partnership with Johns Hopkins University offered free general health consultations as well as HIV and treatment and gender-switching services
Ukraine and the US agree on a minerals deal, Donald Trump says he has heard that Volodymyr Zelensky could be coming to Washington to sign the deal and that he would be OK with that, according to a deal dated February 24 Kyiv will pay 50% of the revenues from its state-owned natural resources into a fund that would invest in Ukraine, no security guarantees in the deal but Trump refers to the already supplied aid along with military equipment supplies which could go forward maybe until a deal with Russia is reached
Turkey expands presence in Chad with deployment at three abandoned French military bases, has also deployed drones near the Faya-Largeau base in northern Chad to contribute to regional stability, viewed as part of Turkey's broader strategy to strengthen its geopolitical footprint in Africa
Turkey announces it will export 15,000 tonnes of eggs to the US through July, the US currently impacted by ongoing bird flu outbreak which has affected nearly 129 million poultry
Ukraine not invited to the peace talks between the US and Russia according to a senior Ukrainian government source to the BBC, European leaders also not invited and will instead meet on Monday in Paris at a hastily arranged summit, Zelensky says he will never accept any decisions between the US and Russia about Ukraine
46% of Danes consider the US to be a fairly big or very big threat to Denmark which is a higher number than for North Korea and Iran, 78% say the oppose Greenland being sold to the US but 72% say the decision should be Greenland's, according to a YouGov poll
India has together with the US identified some 18,000 illegal Indian migrants in the US and is willing to repatriate them to avoid a trade war, some 220,000 illegal Indian immigrants resided in the US in 2022 according to a US Department of Homeland Security report
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz comments on Elon Musk's hand gesture during Donald Trump's inauguration by saying that there is freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany even for billionaires but that supporting extreme-right positions is not accepted, Musk who previously criticized Scholz after the Magdeburg Christmas market terror attack posts "Shame on Oaf Schitz" on X
US withdraws from the World Health Organization due to its mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic and other global health crises as well as the unfairly onerous payments where the US contributes nearly ten times as much as China
US announces USD 25 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, announcement made on the inauguration day for his third six-year term in office, similar rewards also offered regarding Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino, sanctions on Venezuela issued by EU as well as UK and Canada
France carries out airstrikes against suspected ISIS positions in Syria, seven bombs dropped, Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu says that their armies remain engaged in the fight against terrorism in the Levant
US repatriates 59-year-old Tunisian suspected al-Qaeda member Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi who had been incarcerated without charge at Guantánamo since the prison opened in January 2002, the US Department of Defense says the decision followed a rigorous interagency review process, 26 detainees remain at the prison after four repatriations during December
Joe Biden announces USD 2.47 billion in security assistance for Ukraine of which 1.25 billion for the Ukrainian military and a 1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package, says he has directed his administration to continue surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible including drawing down older US equipment where the Department of Defense is in the process of delivering hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds and hundreds of armored vehicles
Arctic sea ice extent during this year's minimum was 26% larger than 2012, articles in 2007 said that the latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years
US airstrike in southern Somalia kills two Al-Shabaab members of which one top commander Mohamed Mire Jama, the strike was conducted in coordination with Somalia's federal government
US strikes Houthi military facilities in Yemen's capital Sanaa using air force and navy, comments that the operation was conducted as retaliation for attacks on US Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, fourth US attack against Yemen this week
The Biden administration lifts USD 10 million bounty on Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is said to have been pragmatic at a personal meeting in Damascus and has repeatedly promised to lead an inclusive government, al-Sharaa who was formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was earlier presented by the US government's Rewards for Justice as the leader behind multiple terrorist attacks often targeting civilians such as the kidnapping of 300 Kurdish civilians and the massacre of 20 Druze villagers
US armed forces kill IS terrorist leader Abu Yusif in precision strike in the formerly Russian-controlled Syrian Dayr az Zawr Province, General Michael Erik Kurilla says ISIS has the intent to free over 8,000 operatives currently being held in Syrian facilities and that the US will not allow them to take advantage of the current situation
9 out of 10 drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries according to a WHO report, 68% drop in drowning death rate between 2000 and 2021 in the European Region but only a 3% drop in Africa which has the highest regional rate with 5.6 deaths per 100 000 people, deaths during migration journeys not included in the report
US bans issuance of visas to about 20 people accused of undermining democracy in Georgia, does not name the individuals but says sitting ministers and members of parliament were among them as well as law enforcement and security officials, the move follows anti-Western Mikheil Kavelashvili's presidential election win
Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Norway freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians after the fall of Assad, Austria where about 100,000 Syrians live says all asylum grants will be reviewed and that they will prepare an orderly repatriation and deportation programme
Syria's ousted President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow along with his family and has been granted asylum for humanitarian reasons, according to a Kremlin source to the TASS news agency
Ukraine expands access to militarized satellite network Starshield from 500 to 3,000 terminals after SpaceX signs contract with the Pentagon, contract valid during 2025
Rebels storm the Syrian presidential palace and announce on state TV that President Bashar al-Assad is ousted, as the capital fell a Syrian airplane with unknown passengers left the Damascus airport and flew towards Assad's coastal region stronghold before making a U-turn and disappearing off the map, unclear if the plane was shot down or the transponder was switched off
Ukrainian trained Syrian rebel forces lead the assault on Aleppo along with among others Turkish backed former Al-Qaeda affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, only connection between the disparate Islamist groups is said to be hatred of the Russian-backed Assad regime, more than 20 villages and the Aleppo airport among what has been captured
New NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says during visit in Greece that the alliance needs to go further to support Ukraine and accuses Russia of dangerously escalating the conflict by bringing in North Korean troops and Iranian drones, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says the country backs a more functional relationship between NATO and the EU to further strengthen the European pillar of the alliance
Russia fires hypersonic ballistic missile with multiple warheads at targets in the city of Dnipro, Putin says in televised address that what was once a regional conflict now has elements of a global character after Western long-range missiles were used for attacks on Russian territory
US opens military base in Poland less than 160 km from Kaliningrad, is the first US base in the country and will focus on air defense
Donald Trump wins the presidential election and becomes the first person in over 120 years to lose the White House and win it back again, won in all swing states and also won the popular vote
Greenland court extends the detention of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson for additional three weeks pending possible extradition to Japan, was arrested in July connection with refueling of his ship in Greenland's capital Nuuk on a 2012 Japanese arrest warrant stemming from a 2010 incident in which Watson is accused of causing damage to a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic
Elon Musk has held several conversations with Vladimir Putin since the end of 2022 according to anonymous sources to the Wall Street Journal, the article points out that Putin allegedly asked Musk not to activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to China's leader Xi Jinping but does not write anything about whether the request was obeyed
Russia hosts BRICS summit with leaders from over 30 countries such as China, India and Turkey as well as UN Secretary General António Guterres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, says Russia is increasingly isolated on the world stage
Supposed secret US intelligence documents revealing details of Israel's preparations for a potential attack on Iran are published by the Iran-linked Telegram account Middle East Spectator, no comments yet from either the Pentagon or the US Director of National Intelligence and the authenticity has not been independently verified by the publication Axios
The case regarding the European Commission's refusal to allow the New York Times access to text messages between Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding the vaccine agreement will be brought before the Court of Justice of the European Union in November
French authorities declare a curfew and ban protests in its overseas territory of Martinique in the Caribbean after riots over high food prices left one dead and 26 injured police, protests began in early September
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, which comprises survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, for their efforts toward achieving a world free from nuclear weapons
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić discuss the two countries' possible military cooperation at a meeting in Belgrade, 2023 Serbia canceled plans to buy drones from Turkey since they had been delivered to Kosovo
US warships on site days before the Nord Stream blasts, according to John Anker Nielsen, harbor master at Christiansø, Denmark's easternmost point northeast of Bornholm, who says he launched rescue efforts after suspecting an accident in connection with ships turning off their radios and then being ordered to turn back immediately when they got closer
The Libertarian Party and two independent candidates who have spoken out against smart cities get 11 seats in the local parliament in the state of New South Wales in Australia, in their manifesto it says that if we don't take a stand now, we are headed for a 24/7 government surveillance and a social credit system similar to China
The former Chancellor of Germany, the Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder, says in an interview with the Swiss Die Weltwoche that it may sound a little strange that he now hopes that Donald Trump will win, but he thinks it can be a solution to reduce the risk of even greater conflicts in the world, he also says that he does not necessarily support Hungary's Viktor Orbán but that his peace mission was very useful and reasonable
The British territory of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean is transferred to Mauritius as announced jointly by the Prime Ministers of both countries, and the American and British military base on the included Diego Garcia atoll will continue to operate as before
Hezbollah's leader for 32 years, 64-year-old Hassan Nasrallah, is confirmed dead after an Israeli air attack in Lebanon, and most of the organization's leaders are now elimnated according to the Israeli military
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the sixth time in a year in connection with the UN General Assembly, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides has expressed optimism about the possibility that the meeting in New York will lead to the restart of talks on the Cyprus issue
The organization Ukrainian Canadian Congress, which is described as far-right, is through legal action attempting to stop the Canadian government's plans to disclose the names of 900 Nazi war criminals who immigrated to the country after the second world war, they justify their position by arguing that such a disclosure would provide Vladimir Putin with ammunition for his claim that the war in Ukraine is about purging Nazis
Volodymyr Zelensky critical of Great Britain and the United States' failure to decide on permission for Ukraine to attack Russian territory with weapons from the West, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Keir Starmer met in the White House and afterwards it was communicated that no change in the countries' policy had taken place
Pakistani imam Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali is sentenced by the International Criminal Court in The Hague in absentia to 14 years in prison for having issued a fatwa against Dutch politician Geert Wilders, but no extradition agreements between the countries exists
The governments of the United States and Iraq when agreement on the final withdrawal of all American and its allied forces from Iraq when the last of them are to leave by the end of 2026, the presence began in 2003 with the invasion and bombing of the capital Baghdad
Ukraine's success in the Russian region of Kursk may give the country an advantage in possible peace talks with Moscow, says US Senator Mark Kelly (D) in connection with the American delegation's meeting with Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa, and points out that the operation surprised the US
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to send a team to ceasefire talks scheduled this week after a three-hour meeting on Monday in Jerusalem with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who says it is now up to Hamas to do the same
Pakistan's former prime minister, the imprisoned Imran Khan, is seeking the role of chancellor at Oxford University in the UK, which he graduated from in 1975 after studying philosophy, politics and economics, other candidates are former British prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair
Sweden reports the first case of the new variant of monkeypox in Europe after the World Health Organization earlier this week declared a global emergency due to the increasing spread in Africa, the Danish company Bavarian Nordic says that they can supply ten million doses of vaccine against the virus by the end of 2025
Wall Street Journal: Volodymyr Zelenskyj knew about and at first approved the sabotage of Nord Stream but then, after warning from the CIA, ordered the plan to be stopped, Germany is the second largest donor to Ukraine since the outbreak of war and an attack of the scale is, according to unnamed German senior official, a sufficient reason to trigger the collective defense clause of NATO
Chinese authorities confirm that a Chinese-owned ship accidentally broke the Balticconnector underwater pipeline between Finland and Estonia in October 2023 by accidentally leaving a broken anchor trailing behind it, Finland's Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said in December that he thinsk everything indicates that it was intentional and that he believes that you would notice that you're dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers
The 44-year-old Ukrainian diving instructor Volodymyr Zhuravlov is the subject of an international arrest warrant from Germany for his involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022, Polish authorities were reportedly contacted by Germany in June but are said not to have complied with the request, and Zhuravlov is believed to have returned to Ukraine from Poland in July
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba ends three-day visit to China, says he and Chinas foreign minister Wang Yi discussed matters that it is not yet the time for them to talk about publicly
The European Union expropriates 1.5 billion euros in proceeds from frozen assets belonging to the Central Bank of Russia and is to be used for Ukraine's military capacity and the country's reconstruction, according to the EU's press release, the proceeds do not belong to Russia
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg answers yes to the question of whether allies need to prepare for the conflict in Ukraine to last for more than ten years and says that Donald Trump's criticism of European countries not spending enough on defense was correct and valid but that has now changed
Singapore's former ambassador to Russia, Bilarhari Kausikan, says Ukraine may be divided in two like Korea after World War II and that Donald Trump will likely do something dramatic with the conflict to distinguish himself from the current administration
32-year-old Jewish-American Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich is sentenced in Russia to 16 years in prison for espionage, on Monday Russian-American Jew Masha Gessen, who uses the they/them pronouns, was sentenced to prison in absentia for dissenting comments since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine
Some 45 heads of government gather in the English countryside, in Blenheim Palace where Winston Churchill was born, to discuss Ukraine and the way forward if Donald Trump were to be re-elected as president of the United States, Britain's newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Labour) believes a new storm gathers over our continent
NATO appoints its representative in Ukraine, Briton Patrick Turner, who is expected to take up the role in Kiev in September this year, stationing a civilian official was one of the organization's promises during the summit on the war
Intelligence about Iranian plans to assassinate Donald Trump in recent weeks led the Secret Service to increase security around the former president, according to sources CNN, no known connection to Saturday's assassination attempt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks Russian representatives should be present at a second peace conference, Russia was not invited to the June conference in Switzerland which meant that China decided not to come
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visits Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, calls it the Peace mission 5.0 and writes on X that they discussed ways to make peace and that the good news is that Trump will solve it
Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli publicly supports French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen, saying it would be good for the Israeli state if she were president and that it seems as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are of the same opinion, the Israeli minister also attended Spanish nationalist party Vox's event in Madrid in May
Tucker Carlson says he has received consent to an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which he has been trying to for two years, but the presidential press secretary denies the information as he says that no interview has been scheduled
16-year-old Iraqi girl strangled to death while beeing raped in front of her mother on sinking boat off Italy by man who had just seen his wife and daughter drown, the 27-year-old Iraqi man arrested after the surviving mother reported him to police
Julian Assange expected to go free after plea deal with US Justice Department, to be sentenced to 62 months in prison which are cancelled out by the time he has already spent behind bars in UK
The Israeli government is for the third time relaunching a program with the stated purpose of carrying out what they themselves call mass consciousness activities aimed primarily at Europe and the United States, the relaunch was first disclosed in a budget document from November 1, 2023, with the comment that all previous campaigns should be freezed in order to winning the war over Israel's story, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy cited by several Republican members of the US House of Representatives during congressional hearings on antisemitism at universities in December was 2018 largely funded by the program
Javier Milei in Madrid receiving an award from the Juan de Mariana Institute for his contribution in spreading of libertarian ideas and the President of the Madrid Region, Isabel Díaz Ayus, political opponent of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and who has led the region in the direction towards a free market, awards the Argentine President the International Medal of Madrid
The leader of New Caledonian pro-independence activist group CCAT, Christian Tein, is charged over the deadly riots on the island last month, to where France sent 3,000 soldiers and police, and will be held in custody in France 17,000 kilometers away, 10 more people arrested
Dutch politician Geert Wilders writes on X that Pakistan is a medieval retarded terrorist country after 36-year-old tourist is lynched and burned to death after allegedly desecrating the Koran
Israel now requires visas for Ukrainians after the countries agreed on visa-free travel for its citizens in 2010, Ukraine's ambassador to Israel says Ukraine will have to introduce similar requirements in response but remains open to dialogue on the issue
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is actively engaging in discussions regarding the readiness and potential deployment of its nuclear arsenal, expresses concern about China's modernizing where they are predicted to have 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 and the possibility of confronting two nuclear-armed adversaries simultaneously, stresses the necessity of increasing defence expenditures in response to rising tensions
The US military ran a secret anti-Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine campaign in the Philippines as payback for Beijing's efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic, Reuters' investigation finds at least 300 X accounts created in 2020 focusing on the slogan #Chinaangvirus which is Tagalog for "China is the virus", the campaign ended in 2021 when the National Security Council ordered the military to stop all anti-vaccine messaging
Vladimir Putin puts forward a peace plan that calls for Ukraine to remove all troops from the four Ukrainian regions in question, a neutral demilitarized and de-Nazified Ukraine, and for Western sanctions against Russia to be lifted, pointing out that this ends the conflict forever, not pausing it as the West wants so it could build up Ukraine's military and that if the offer is denied again, the settlement conditions will be stricter
Jewish Gidi Markuszower is denied the post of migration minister in the new government in the Netherlands as he failed a background check by the country's security service and former interior minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin, son of a Jew who survived World War II, wrote according to media reports to party leader Geert Wilders that Markuszower likely reports to a foreign power
Sweden and Iran exchange prisoners as the Swedish diplomat Johan Floderus was imprisoned in Iran for two years on suspicion of espionage, as well as Iranian Saeed Aziz with Swedish citizenship is swapped with the Iranian Hamid Nouri, who was arrested as a tourist in Sweden in 2019 and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes committed in 1988
US and Ukraine agree to 10-year security pact including continued military training, defense industry and intelligence cooperation, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan calls the deal a milestone that for many years will defend against and deter future Russian aggression
US lifts ban on the Azov Brigade using American weapons, The State Department comments that they found no evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the unit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the decision shows that Washington will resort to anything to suppress Russia including flirting with neo-Nazis
Russia is participating in exercises with Cuba in the Caribbean Sea with the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and three other warships between June 12 and 17, according to Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which clarifies that none of the vessels carry nuclear weapons and therefore do not pose a threat to the region