President Joe Biden on Monday released a statement in solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who protested over the weekend about shortages and rising prices for food and medicine amid the coronavirus pandemic in what's being called an unprecedented rejection of the island nation's government." We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subject

The Russian side opposes any form of" Taiwan's independence," said Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova. The Taiwan question is purely an internal matter for China.... Attempts by certain countries to use the elections in Taiwan to pressure Beijing and destabilise the situation in the strait and across the region are" counterproductive and must be condemned by the international community," Zakharova said.... " The Taiwan question is China's internal affair....