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Nearly three-quarters of Cuba’s hotels have been closed and the island’s tourism sector has been brought to “almost total paralysis” by US sanctions and fuel shortages, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said on Wednesday. Detailing the scale of the tourism crisis for the first time, Marrero said seven international chains, responsible for about half of all hotel rooms, had left the island. Tourism had been Cuba’s second-largest source of foreign currency earnings, employing more than 300,000 people...

The thieves took about $1,000 worth of products, Julian Saluga said. Because of rising thefts locally and nationwide, the store took preventive measures.

Two 14-year-old girls were pulled from the wreckage of a horror crash in Melbourne's south-east, with one of them suffering life-threatening injuries, local police confirmed

Workers recently learned that some jobs may be saved, although details remain limited and no agreement has been finalized.

US President Donald Trump said he would be “quite disappointed” if his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping broke a personal promise not to arm Iran, even as he revived his accusation that long-time US health official Anthony Fauci helped shield Beijing from scrutiny over the origins of Covid-19. The comments came as Fauci, who led the US response to the pandemic, appeared before a Senate committee. Separately, Reuters has reported that Iran is expected to receive 300 to 400 Chinese-made...

Telegram told the BBC it rejects the allegations and will contest them in court.

Evan Barker is a young woman who used to be an activist and fundraiser for the Democrat Party, but she left the left after the 2024 election. The post Former Democrat Party Activist Reveals the Moment She Knew She Was Done With the Left appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Members of a delegation from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa paid tribute to their ancestors at the historic Ryukyu Kingdom cemetery in Beijing, highlighting a legacy of ties that China is increasingly leveraging as a counterweight in its frictions with Tokyo. During the visit in June – first made public by the Global Times on Sunday – about a dozen delegates travelled to the site southeast of Beijing, which honours six centuries of ties between China and the former island nation later...

(JTA) — Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take direct aim at the country’s handling of settler violence in the West Bank — warning that unchecked attacks now pose a threat to Israel’s security and to... The post Bret Stephens, a stalwart Israel defender, calls out ‘Jewish terrorists’ in West Bank  appeared first on The Forward.

A French teenager who posted a video of himself licking a straw and returning it to an iJooz vending machine in Singapore was fined S$600 (US$465) for public nuisance on Thursday. The clip had gone viral after someone in his Instagram circle recorded it and forwarded the footage to a media outlet, the defence said. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of public nuisance, with a second charge of mischief taken into consideration. On March 12, Maximilien attended a...

Dashcam video captured a loose tire rolling along Interstate 76 in Philadelphia before it slammed into an SUV.

The 19-year-old was "truly sorry" for causing trouble, his lawyers said.