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HAVANA, March 20 (Reuters) – Cuba’s armed forces presented 79-year-old folk singer Silvio Rodriguez with an AKM war rifle and a ceremonial replica on Friday, grateful for his social media post that he was prepared to take up arms against any U.S. invasion. Rodriguez has long been a symbol of the Cuban revolution, rising to …
By Guy Faulconbridge and Marina Bobrova MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Iranian leaders on Nowruz and said Moscow remained a loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The extent of Moscow’s support for Iran, though, is in dispute. Some Iranian sources have said that they have …
KYIV, March 21 (Reuters) – Most of Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region was left without power on Saturday after a Russian drone attack, local governor Viacheslav Chaus said. He said repair works were underway to fix the damage. The region, which borders Russia and Belarus, had a pre-war population of nearly a million. The regional capital, …
By Laila Bassam, Tom Perry, Samia Nakhoul and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT, March 21 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) rebuilt Hezbollah’s military command after it was mauled by Israel in 2024, plugging gaps with Iranian officers before restructuring the Lebanese group and laying plans for the war it is now waging in support of Tehran, …
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least two people, a Ukrainian official said, ahead of expected U.S.-Ukraine talks. Zaporizhzhia regional head Ivan Fedorov said a man and a woman were killed and two children wounded when a Russian drone hit a private house on Saturday morning. …
AI-generated medical advice? A “friendly takeover” of Cuba? For more on those and the rest of the week’s news, read on. I’m Sidney Slon. Monday To start the week, Olivier reviewed the Trump administration’s strategy for selling the Iran war to the American public, amid higher gas prices and the first U.S. casualties in the …
March 20 (Reuters) – Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Friday suspended the state’s gas tax amid rising fuel prices as the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran enters its third week. The move – the first such relief offered by a U.S. state since the war started on February 28 – suspends Georgia’s tax of 33.3 cents …
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply on the site of a decommissioned uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio, as it pushes commercial development of artificial intelligence technology. The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County …
NEW YORK (AP) — War is rippling through their ancestral land — and being waged with the country where they live. This week, Iranian Americans already trying to navigate a push-pull of worry and hope unleashed by this month’s conflict have been wrestling with a new concern: how — or even whether — to celebrate …
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – A U.S.-led defense manufacturing partnership agreed to launch a new missile motor production program with Japan, push forward a drone cooperation effort across Asia and explore building a new ammunition production line in the Philippines, the Pentagon said on Friday. The Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience, known as PIPIR, is …