MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) – Russia said on Friday that it stood in solidarity with Cuba and would continue to provide humanitarian aid to the Communist‑run island republic, rejecting what it described as blackmail and threats from Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he expects to have the honour of “taking Cuba”, though…
April 10 (Reuters) – Russia will never abandon or betray Cuba and plans to help the Communist island tackle energy issues linked to a U.S. embargo, a Russian deputy foreign minister was quoted as saying early on Friday after talks in Havana. Sergei Ryabkov, quoted by Russian news agencies at a news conference in the…
new video loaded: Trump Suggests ‘Taking’ Cuba as Island Deals With Blackout transcript Back transcript Trump Suggests ‘Taking’ Cuba as Island Deals With Blackout The president said he believed he would have the “honor of taking Cuba” on Monday. His comments came as a nationwide blackout and an energy crisis cripple the island. “I do…
After a military takeover of Venezuela and an ongoing war with Iran, US President Donald Trump is now eyeing another power grab, this time closer to home. US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US. (Bloomberg) During a press briefing on Monday,…
China’s embassy in Washington briefly posted an AI-generated video mocking a security summit hosted by US President Donald Trump, days after the POTUS took the stage, warning about “hostile foreign influence”. The short animation appeared on Wednesday on the embassy’s X account before being removed early Friday. Produced by Xinhua News Agency, the video carried…
new video loaded: Cuba Confirms Talks With United States Amid Dire Energy Crisis transcript Back transcript Cuba Confirms Talks With United States Amid Dire Energy Crisis President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the Cuban government was talking with the United States as the effective oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration has continued to deepen the island’s…
Hong Kong’s public airmail services to 24 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia have been affected after a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran forced flight cancellations to two Gulf states and disrupted transit journeys. A Hongkong Post spokesman said on Sunday evening that the department’s airmail services to Saudi Arabia and the…
new video loaded: Marco Rubio Says U.S. Is Probing Deadly Cuban Shooting transcript Back transcript Marco Rubio Says U.S. Is Probing Deadly Cuban Shooting Cuban officials said border troops engaged in gunfire with a Florida-based speedboat on Wednesday, leaving four dead on the boat and six wounded. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S….
A former counterintelligence officer who was the first person to report symptoms linked to “Havana Syndrome” has died at age 65. Michael Beck, a retired National Security Agency staffer who blamed his early-onset Parkinson’s diagnosis at age 45 on the still-unexplained medical condition, died while shopping on Saturday in Columbia, Maryland. His daughter, Regan, told…
Firefighters in central Missouri came to the rescue of two horses on Monday morning. The Cuba Fire Protection District responded to an emergency call involving horses that had ventured onto what appeared to be solid, snow-covered ice but in fact was thin, breaking under the horse’s combined weight and leaving them stranded in frigid pond…