The announcement said the pardons were a “humanitarian gesture” in connection with Holy Week and didn’t mention mounting pressures with the U.S.

The government said the prisoners affected are foreigners and Cubans, including women, the elderly and young people. It didn’t say when they were being released or under what conditions, nor did it mention the crimes they were accused of committing.

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/cuba-pardons-holy-week-oil-blackouts-203c1b81aed59e81d252b29d27ad6654?fbclid=IwY2xjawRA7G1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEew-jsQUKNDqALfyDh1KEHUnmx6XritmSMTo7–Kcm0nobng2ofzwGIK0akGk_aem_PdNxYsVEkeWgElsXudwLQA

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow considered it its duty to help Cuba, according to Russian state news outlet RIA Novosti. He added that Havana needed petroleum products amid a de facto U.S. oil blockade.

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To hear the media tell it, we’re all in grave danger. Trump however goes on and on, telling us not to worry about an Iranian attack. They’re destroyed. I don’t know why they keep putting on such a brave face. Maybe because they know the media is buying it. Iran has been a sore spot longer than we can remember, and they’ve been calling us something I won’t dare to repeat. But they never saw Donald Trump coming. Neither did we.

The war in Iran goes on, but Trump says not much longer. He’s calling the shots and I believe him. They’re down to their second or third string for Ayatollah. Nobody wants to emerge as Iran’s new leader. For obvious reasons.

I still don’t like Zelensky. Ever since I saw that he was with a comedy troupe with who-knows-whose legs in the air. He should have known better. But the war goes on, and I don’t think that relations are getting any better. Putin may be an oligarch, but Zelensky…

The lines around airports are bad and getting worse. I wouldn’t mind if they disbanded the TSA altogether. I’ve not told this story before, but Dad and I traveled to Australia in the winter before he died. Winter over here means Summer in Australia. They searched us thoroughly before we were allowed to board the airplane. I was mad. But the TSA is blind. Especially now that they got these X-ray machines. I know there’s a way to go to the shorter line, but there wasn’t then, and I resent it. Not only that, but the TSA agents were mostly foreigners. GRRRR.

All of a sudden, with the advent of Donald Trump (he flies private and has never been groped) we’re talking about expansion. The power is out in Cuba. We’re talking about taking over Greenland, and who wouldn’t want to be part of our glorious country? I marvel at how we’ve been blessed.

Weather has turned great here, and you people up North don’t have long to wait. I talked to a friend and the weather is great in Vancouver. But they’re not happy with their leadership. Me? I’m happy.

Mark

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At least one person was appeared to have been shot, apparently by Cuban police, videos posted on social media show.

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Source: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article315052027.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawQlGyFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeZ4sMqTqeo6Bp-mYWXySr1iIu3EmxHDJaZQ-JzRJR2y7UnVWTcsHy-SeebRI_aem_psIu-rYsUmlliczidyXj1A

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Trump last month threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba, labelling the island “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security. He noted the Cuban government’s relations with Russia, China, and Iran as evidence of that threat, which, Trump suggested, would present as “migration and violence.”

The island’s biggest oil supplier was out of the picture already, since that was Venezuela, and the United States effectively took control of the country’s oil industry following the ousting of President Nicolas Maduro.

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Source: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Cubas-Energy-Crisis-Deepens-Amid-US-Tariffs.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawP8bIdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeCf9Rh7GA2X27xnQnRB0-IszAu-VpJ3KjkBieIHq55P_YrY6FLmoF0JGxg4o_aem_zP-4IKZTSWm4Sq9s9jcEkw

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Twenty-five people were killed in Haiti when a nearby river flooded their homes, officials said.

The storm is projected to strike the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and eventually Bermuda with vicious conditions later Wednesday, FOX Weather reports.

Melissa made devastating landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, wiping out power to 500,000 people there as experts brand it the “storm of the century.”

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Source: https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/world-news/hurricane-melissa-live-updates-reactions-on-the-storms-path-to-jamaica/

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Hurricane Melissa is now moving across Jamaica and Cuba with catastrophic amounts of wind and rainfall.

The devastating hurricane made landfall earlier this afternoon near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Category 5 with winds of 185 mph and a pressure of 892 mb, a historic strike that will lead to months and years of recovery. This landfall will go down in the record books as one of the strongest anywhere in the Atlantic Basin.

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Joe Biden has removed Cuba from a list of nations classified as supporting international terrorism, reversing a decision by predecessor Donald Trump to crack down on the communist nation.

The president notified Congress of the intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday, less than a week before Trump is due to be sworn in for his second term.

The move is part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free “many dozens” of political prisoners on the island, who were jailed for protesting against the regime in July 2021. They are scheduled to be released by the end of the Biden administration at noon on January 20.

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The bread, one of a handful of still subsidized basic food products in Cuba, will be reduced from 80 grams to 60 grams (2.1 oz), or approximately the weight of an average cookie or a small bar of soap. Its price, too, was slightly reduced, to just under 1 peso, or 1/3 of a cent.

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Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight as mercenaries for Russia in its war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry has said, as Moscow seeks to increase the size of its forces.

In a statement, the Cuban foreign ministry said the authorities were working to “neutralise and dismantle” the network, which it said was operating within the Caribbean island nation and in Russia.

“The ministry of the interior … is working on the neutralisation and dismantling of a human trafficking network that operates from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the ministry statement said.

“Cuba has a firm and clear historical position against the use of mercenaries … Cuba is not part of the war in Ukraine.”

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/cuba-uncovers-human-trafficking-ring-recruiting-for-russias-war-in-ukraine

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