Cuba guarantees food rations in bid to defuse tension after protests
Havana, Cuba Reuters Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said this week his communist-run government has secured supply of key subsidised food rations as he moved to defuse tensions just two weeks after protesters took to the streets over widespread shortages. Diaz-Canel, who appeared on the mid-day TV newscast on Thursday, said his government had undertaken an […]
Cuba: Amid blackouts and scarce food, protests rattle ‘cradle’ of the Revolution
DAVE SHERWOOD and ALIEN FERNANDEZ, of Reuters, report from Santiago de Cuba…
Russia pounds Ukrainian power facilities, Kremlin embraces “war” rhetoric
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia pounded Ukrainian power facilities on Friday in an attack described by Kyiv as the largest airstrike on its energy infrastructure in two years of war, and portrayed by Moscow as revenge for Ukrainian attacks during its presidential election. The missile and drone attack hit a vast dam over the Dnipro river, […]
Protest erupts in eastern Cuba amid blackouts, food shortages
Havana, Cuba Reuters Hundreds in Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago, took to the streets late Sunday in a rare public protest, according to social media and official reports, and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for an “atmosphere of tranquility and peace”. Protesters in Santiago chanted “power and food,” according to videos posted on social media, as […]
Egypt blackouts become symbol of malaise a decade after Sisi’s rise
Cairo, EgyptReuters For Egyptians grown used to a decade of reliable power supplies and boasts of vast investments in generation, a wave of rolling blackouts came as a shock – shaking faith in President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s record months before an election. Along with record inflation and a sharp weakening of the currency, the outages […]
Power surge caused Pakistan grid crash, plunging millions into darkness
Islamabad, Pakistan/Singapore Reuters Pakistan’s generators produced more power than was required on Monday, causing voltage fluctuations that culminated in a system collapse that plunged 220 million people into darkness, an internal government document reviewed by Reuters showed. Complete grid failures are rare, and operators of modern grids count local shocks from integration of renewable energy […]
Russia fires scores of missiles in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said. Three people were killed when an apartment block was hit in central Kryvyi […]
Russia drones smash power network in Ukraine’s Odesa, could take months to repair
Reuters All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, officials said on Saturday, adding it could take months to repair the damage. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said more than 1.5 million people in the southern port city and surrounding region had no […]
NATO pledges more aid to Kyiv as air raid sirens blare again across Ukraine
Kyiv, UkraineReuters The United States and NATO allies on Tuesday promised more arms for Kyiv and equipment to help restore Ukrainian power and heat knocked out by Russian missile and drone strikes, as air raid sirens blared across Ukraine for the first time this week. Ukrainians fled the streets for bomb shelters, although the all-clear […]
Russia won’t stop strikes until it runs out of missiles, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says
Kyiv/Kherson, UkraineReuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians to expect another brutal week of cold and darkness ahead, predicting more Russian attacks on infrastructure that would not cease until Moscow ran out of missiles. Russia has been carrying out massive missile bombardments on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure roughly weekly since early October, with each barrage having greater […]