Officials say efforts to assess damage are under way after 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Cuba. A powerful earthquake has hit eastern Cuba, adding more problems to a country still reeling from a series of recent storms and blackouts. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Sunday that a magnitude…
Tropical Storm Rafael is set to become a hurricane near the Cayman Islands on Tuesday night before reaching Cuba. Tropical Storm Rafael is expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean near the Cayman Islands with further strengthening anticipated before it makes landfall in Cuba, the United States…
Electricity is slowly returning to Havana, Cuba’s capital days after a nationwide blackout plunged the country of 10 million into total darkness on Friday, causing the government to close all non-essential workplaces and cancel school classes until Thursday. Power has been restored to almost 90 percent of Havana, according to…
The Cuban government has started to restore power to the millions of residents left in the dark during a nationwide power outage this week. On Saturday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel sought to reassure the country, amid the continuing struggles with the electrical grid. “We are working hard and tirelessly to…
Millions of Cubans face 12-hour blackouts per day, but PM Marrero says country ‘not yet in a bottomless abyss’. Cuba’s government has announced it will halt all non-vital state services and businesses for three days as it battles an energy crisis that has caused marathon blackouts for much of the…
Thousands of Cubans, led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and other leaders of the communist-run island, marched in Havana to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The demonstrators, including some 250 Palestinian medical students living in Cuba, carried a large banner that read “Long live free Palestine”, while the president and…
A system of storms in the Caribbean is forecast to develop into Hurricane Helene by the middle of this week. Parts of Cuba and Mexico are under a hurricane watch as a storm system is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane in the next few days as it moves…
On Wednesday, dozens of Havana residents gathered and watched as Russian warships sailed into Cuba’s main harbour – in the latest display of naval strength by Moscow amid heightened tensions with the United States. The Caribbean nation is a neighbour of the US, which at its closest point, is just…
US downplays deployment, which comes amid rising tensions over Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, accompanied by a tug boat and a fuel ship, have arrived in Cuba for a five-day visit seen as a show of force by Moscow amid rising…
NewsFeed The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan sailed into the port of Havana, just 160 km from the United States, after conducting military drills. Published On 12 Jun 202412 Jun 2024 Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source
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