With frequent power cuts transforming Havana into a ghost town, young Cubans are struggling to get their kicks, many resorting to games of dominoes with strangers to pass the time. Most of 24-year-old Melanie Tejeda’s friends have left the US-blockaded island nation, and only five of the 43 students who started an acting program with […]
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Republican and Democratic US senators joined forces Tuesday to urge President Donald Trump to scrap his diesel deal with Russia, calling it a “betrayal” that would bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine while doing little to ease soaring fuel prices. The 12 lawmakers — including six members of Trump’s Republican Party — called on the president […]
Read MoreThe Saudi-led coalition battling the Iran-backed Houthis struck oil sites across western Yemen on Tuesday including in the capital Sanaa, in response to the deadliest attack on the kingdom’s soil in years. Blasts were heard shortly after in Saudi capital Riyadh and at an oil giant Aramco facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, witnesses and journalists […]
Read MoreDuane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Los Angeles gang leader who boasted for years of his involvement in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, only to deny it when he came to trial, was sentenced to a minimum 40 years in prison on Tuesday. The sentence, which will likely see him die in custody, comes […]
Read MoreDuane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Los Angeles gang leader who boasted for years of his involvement in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, only to deny it when he came to trial, was sentenced to a minimum 40 years in prison on Tuesday. The sentence, which will likely see him die in custody, comes […]
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France’s Economy Minister Roland Lescure said Tuesday that the country was not trapped in a debt “snowball” as he pressed opposition parties to pass a government budget for 2027. President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government is anxious to pass a budget before the end of the year as it seeks to reassure markets that France can […]
Read MoreDie Lungen-Operation von Papst Leo XIV. ist nach Angaben des Vatikans “erfolgreich” vollzogen worden. “Der Eingriff wurde erfolgreich, im erwarteten Zeitrahmen und wie geplant ausgeführt”, teilte der Vatikan am Dienstagabend auf Telegram mit. “Der Heilige Vater ist auf sein Zimmer zurückgekehrt.”Der 71-jährige Pontifex war Dienstagmittag zum Gemelli-Krankenhaus in Rom gefahren worden. Ihm sollte nach Angaben […]
Read MoreNach der konstituierenden Sitzung der Linksfraktion im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus haben Grüne und SPD die vor wenigen Tagen begonnenen Sondierungsgespräche mit der Partei über eine Regierungsbildung unterbrochen. Beide Parteien hätten “zur Kenntnis genommen, dass die Linke in ihrer Fraktion zu anderen Verabredungen gekommen ist”, erklärten Grüne und SPD am Dienstag unter Verweis auf eine in der […]
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Nach mehreren peinlichen Enthüllungen sind die Tage von Kimberly Guilfoyle als US-Botschafterin in Griechenland gezählt: “Sie wird nicht mehr dort sein”, sagte US-Präsident Donald Trump am Dienstag. Kurz zuvor hatte das Weiße Haus die frühere Verlobte von Trumps ältestem Sohn Donald Jr. zum Rückzug aufgerufen. Guilfoyle wies die gegen sie erhobene Vorwürfe zurück. Sie räumte […]
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