US President Biden imposes fresh sanctions on Cuban officials and other stories

Today we look at demands to lift the US blockade against Cuba as President Biden imposes fresh sanctions, the worsening Covid-19 crisis in Indonesia, and more

July 23, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the imposition of new sanctions against Cuban officials by the US government, the Covid-19 crisis in Indonesia amid shortages of oxygen and hospital beds, the Commission of Inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council to look into rights abuses in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and the new billionaire space race as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos completes his company Blue Origin’s inaugural space flight.