HAVANA (AP) — Nearly 3 million Cubans experience water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade, authorities said late Wednesday during a roundtable discussion regarding the impact of the ongoing blockade. The island’s water system is operating with only 37% of the required fuel …
TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who took them to end their own lives is expected to plead guilty Friday to 14 counts of counseling or aiding suicide, his lawyer said. Kenneth Law is scheduled to appear in a Newmarket, Ontario, court to enter the plea and …
SYDNEY, May 29 (Reuters) – An appeal against an Australian woman’s murder conviction for killing three relatives with a meal laced with toxic mushrooms will be heard in August, a court said on Friday. A jury in July found Erin Patterson, 51, guilty of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband and attempting to …
May 29 (Reuters) – One person was killed and two injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Volgograd region, governor Andrey Bocharov said on Friday. Fires at a chemical plant and energy facilities were put out after the attack, he added. Fuel storage facilities also caught fire following a Ukraine drone attack in Russia’s …
By Greg Torode, Laurie Chen and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa May 29 (Reuters) – In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back. China’s nuclear missiles can …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong series of strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean has risen to at least 199 people after survivors of recent attacks were not found. The total includes at least 22 people who had survived an initial strike …
By Jonathan Landay and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday leveled unusually harsh criticism against Russia and called for it to refrain from its promised “systematic strikes” against Kyiv, but Moscow brushed off the appeal and reiterated a warning to foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. The statements …
BOGOTA, May 28 (Reuters) – Colombia’s national mining association on Thursday reported that an attack at Zijin Gold’s Buritica mine had left one worker dead and another injured. Zijin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last year the firm had to temporarily pause production at the country’s largest gold mine after an …
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge had an extramarital affair with a high-ranking police officer — including having sex in the judge’s chambers that was overheard by staff — and initially lied about the actions but remains on the bench after receiving a “private reprimand,” according to an investigation by the court system. The Judicial …
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Jozy Altidore arrived at the new U.S. Soccer National Training Center, a $250 million, 200-acre, 19-field complex south of Atlanta, far different from where his 2014 American team recovered from practice in a plastic cold tub on a paved path outside Stanford’s Cagan Stadium in California. “This is the culmination, right?” …