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September 19, 2026 12:40 AM
Cuba's energy grid suffered a total collapse on Friday, the energy ministry said in a post to social media, causing a nationwide blackout on the island of about 9 million people. Cuba's aging power generation system has been under severe strain from...
August 3, 2026 9:20 AM
Cuba's national electricity grid collapsed late on Sunday, the state-owned national electric utility said, plunging the island of about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts are becoming ever more frequent. The Union Electrica de Cuba ...
May 30, 2026 11:56 AM
The top U.S. general overseeing forces in Latin America held a rare meeting on Friday with senior Cuban military officials at the perimeter of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said on Friday, confirming a Reuters story. U.S...
May 14, 2026 10:38 AM
Protests broke out across the Cuban capital of Havana on Wednesday evening as the city confronted its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has starved the island of fuel. Crowds of hundreds of angry Cubans poured onto the str...
May 13, 2026 9:21 AM
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Cuba is asking for help and "we are going to talk," without providing any more information about U.S. plans. Trump has heaped pressure on the Caribbean island nation since returning to office last year, and thr...
March 30, 2026 12:39 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he was reversing course on blocking oil shipments to Cuba on Sunday, saying he had "no problem" with any country sending in crude as a Russian tanker neared a Cuban port with a badly needed shipment. A sanctioned...
January 12, 2026 10:06 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said no more Venezuelan oil or money will go to Cuba and suggested the Communist-run island should strike a deal with Washington, ramping up pressure on the long-time U.S. nemesis and provoking defiant words from...
November 4, 2025 5:34 PM
Reaffirming solidarity with its Global South partners, India on Tuesday dispatched 20 tonnes each of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) materials for Jamaica and Cuba to support recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Taki...
October 29, 2025 10:33 AM
Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation. Mel...
October 21, 2024 11:29 AM
Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island's misery and threaten further havoc on its decrepit infrastructure. Cuba earlier on Sunday had said ...
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