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Cubans were left in the dark Wednesday after the island endured its fifth nationwide power outage in a year, the latest blow in the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, triggered by the shutdown of its largest thermoelectric plant.

South Korean companies will be “very hesitant” about investing in the US following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the state of Georgia last week, President Lee Jae-myung has said.More than 300 South Koreans who were arrested in the raid are due to return home on Friday. Their departure had been delayed “due to circumstances on the US side”, officials said. “The situation is extremely bewildering,” said Lee, noting it is common practice for Korean firms to send workers to help set up overseas factories.”If that’s no longer allowed, establishing manufacturing facilities in the US will only…

Stephen Colbert condemned the shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday night’s episode of “The Late Show.” His statement came in a pre-taped segment that aired before the opening credits ran as normal. “Good evening, everybody,” a solemn Colbert said. “After our scripts for tonight’s show were finished, we learned that Charlie Kirk, a prominent right-wing activist, was killed at a speaking engagement in Utah. Our condolences go out to his family and all of his loved ones. I am old enough to personally remember the political violence of the 1960s, and I hope it is obvious to everyone in America…

The 2025 Procore Championship is not always on the radar of golf fans, but the first event of the 2025 fall season will feature a more robust field than usual thanks to the presence of 10 of the 12 members of the United States Ryder Cup team. Everyone but Bryson DeChambeau (not a PGA Tour member) and Xander Schauffele (at home with his newborn son) will tee it up this week in Napa, California, to get some competitive reps before the Ryder Cup as the U.S. team looks to avoid a slow start at Bethpage Black.That means Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun,…

Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the the US and China.The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency.“Nasa has taken internal action pertaining to Chinese nationals, including restricting physical and cybersecurity access to our facilities, materials and network to ensure the security of our work,” Nasa press secretary Bethany Stevens said on Wednesday.According to Bloomberg, Chinese nationals had previously been allowed to work as contractors or students contributing to research, although not as staff.But on 5 September several individuals…

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Well-wishers pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the national headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix after the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the organization, during a Utah college event Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP President Trump condemned the left and the media for “demonizing” those they disagree with in a video message from the Oval Office after his close ally Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah college campus event on Wednesday. Trump praised Kirk, who he has credited for helping…

Bribery is generally unethical and often illegal, but also quite effective. When my four-year-old is acting up and ignoring my increasingly desperate pleas for her to get dressed, leave the playground or do something else very important, I have, on occasion, resorted to desperate promises of ice-cream. Obviously, I know it’s counterproductive to respond to suboptimal behaviour with sugar-based bribes. But sometimes you are exhausted and just need a short-term win. The ice-cream always delivers.It seems trying to motivate a four-year-old is not much different from trying to keep a petulant 54-year-old tech mogul in line. On Friday, Tesla’s board…

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter andJim ReedHealth reporterGetty ImagesAdvances in radiotherapy and other forms of cancer treatment are driving up survival rates of the diseaseSenior cancer doctors are warning that excessive red tape means some patients in England are struggling to access the latest cancer treatments. The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) says bureaucracy is “stifling innovation” and that applying for funding to pay for new treatments can be “cumbersome” for some cancer centres.It says the situation is leading to an unacceptable postcode lottery with some cutting-edge treatments only available in the larger, better-funded units.The government says a new cancer strategy, due…

Being a Palestinian under Israeli occupation will not help someone make a good film, according to Rashid Masharawi, but a good film-maker will help Palestine.With his anthology film From Ground Zero (in Arabic: From Zero Distance) he attempts to do just that by bridging the space between the Palestinians in Gaza who have endured a campaign of annihilation behind closed doors to those around the world watching as an incomprehensibly vast tragedy unfolds in real time.The result is a collection of 22 shorts by Palestinian film-makers, ranging from documentary to vignettes and animation, which turns our attention not only to…