NewsFeed The White House says US policy toward Cuba remains unchanged despite allowing a sanctioned Russian tanker to deliver fuel on humanitarian grounds. Officials say such decisions will be handled case-by-case and vessels violating US sanctions could still be seized, as Cuba faces months of fuel shortages under a US blockade. Published On 31 Mar … Read more
Top court sentences Alejandro Gil in the highest profile case against an ex-official in Cuba in decades. Published On 9 Dec 20259 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Cuba’s top court has sentenced former Economy Minister Alejandro Gil to life in prison for espionage following a closed-door trial, in one … Read more
Authorities have not said which country or state actors may have benefitted from the alleged spying activities. Published On 1 Nov 20251 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Cuba’s top prosecutor has charged the country’s former economy minister and others with alleged espionage and a string of financial crimes. The … Read more
Havana CNN — Cuba’s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness. “At around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric … Read more
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London USGS The United States Geological Survey showed a map of the location of the earthquake – A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean Sea triggering tsunami warnings for a number of countries, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said. Officials say the earthquake’s epicentre is about 20 miles (32.1km) … Read more
School and work activities resume, but Cuban authorities say policy of rolling, five-hour daily blackouts will continue. Authorities say Cuba’s national electricity grid has been reconnected but is still struggling to meet demand after a nationwide blackout left millions of people without power for hours. The National Electric Union (UNE) said on Thursday that it … Read more
Authorities say Antonio Guiteras power plant shut down overnight, prompting collapse of national power grid. Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed again, leaving millions of people across the Caribbean island without electricity in the latest such failure in recent months. Authorities said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the country’s top electricity producer, shut … Read more
Less than a month after Hurricane Milton churned over the island of Cuba, the country has been struck by yet another powerful storm: Hurricane Rafael. Rafael made landfall on Wednesday as a formidable Category 3 storm, which qualifies it as a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It lurched across the western province of Artemisa, … Read more
The experts had warned for years: Cuba’s power grid was on the verge of collapse, relying on plants nearly a half-century old and importing fuel that the cash strapped Communist government could barely afford. On Friday morning their dire predictions came true, as the entire island plunged into the most prolonged blackout it has suffered … Read more
Russian warships leave Cuba after five days BBC.com Russian Submarine’s Damaged Hull During Cuba Visit Raises Questions Newsweek Russia’s sub that just left Cuba ‘falling apart’: analyst Business Insider Russian warships near Florida aim to intimidate. Our Navy views them more like target practice Fox News Russian nuclear-powered submarine leaves Cuba Yahoo! Voices Source link