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Diplomat Carlos de Cossio said the U.S. fuel embargo is having a negative impact on Cuba’s health services, food production and standard of living.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationCuban diplomat Carlos de Cosio has accused the United States of imposing collective punishment on the Caribbean island nation as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up pressure to block the Caribbean island nation’s access to oil.De Cossio, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, explained the situation from Havana’s perspective in a post on X on Friday.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”Let me be clear: a. Cuba requires imports of fuel. b.…
Igor Tudor has agreed to become Tottenham’s interim manager until the end of the season.Tudor is due to take part in training with Spurs at the start of the week and will play in his first game next Sunday in the north London derby against Arsenal, which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports. The Croatian’s priority is to keep Spurs in the Premier League, which is now 16th, five points above the relegation zone following the sacking of manager Tomas Frank. There is a verbal agreement for Tudor to take over until the end of the season, with only…
Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad, which features a darkly comedic scenario in which people seeking advice from a chatbot are directed to a “cougar” dating site and height-enhancing insoles, has been successful. Since then, Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude has moved up from number 41 to become a top 10 app in the US App Store. As of Friday, Claude was in seventh place, its highest ranking ever, showing that its “no ads” pitch is resonating with users. Claude’s U.S. downloads reached an estimated total of 148,000 between Sunday and Tuesday on both iOS and Android, according to new data from market…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 13, 2026 in New York City. Spencer Pratt | Getty Imagesof S&P500 Stocks rose on Friday after a key consumer inflation report was slightly lighter than expected, but stocks were still on pace for a down week.The broader market index rose 0.7%. Nasdaq Composite It rose by 0.6%. of Dow Jones Industrial Average 251 points (0.5%) added.The Consumer Price Index, which measures the cost of goods and services in the U.S. economy, rose 0.2% in January, for an annualized increase of 2.4%, the U.S. Bureau of…
Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club hosts a “Morning Meeting” livestream weekdays at 10:20 a.m. ET. A recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. Stocks are looking to stabilize on Friday after a sharp decline that spared some corners of the market in pre-trade. Banking, office real estate, transportation and logistics, and media stocks all fell on concerns about AI-induced disruption. After one such session, Jeff Marks, director of portfolio analysis, said we were “looking for opportunities” after a week of raising money through trimmings at Eaton, Cisco and Procter & Gamble. Even industrial stocks, which had been leading the market, took…
Harvard University graduates attend the 374th Commencement Ceremony on May 29, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Video Visual China Group | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration on Friday sued Harvard University, accusing it of failing to respond to a federal investigation and seeking documents to determine whether the school illegally considered race in its admissions process.The move comes less than two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was seeking $1 billion from Harvard University to resolve an investigation into its school policies, following reports that the president had dropped demands for payments from the Ivy League school.Representatives from Harvard University did…
Sydney City Council has banned beach goers from riding shirtless or bikini-clad community buses, reigniting a decades-old debate over public order in Australia. “Please dress appropriately. Please wear clothing over your swimsuit,” says a sign on the Hop, Skip and Jump bus, which is funded by Northern Beaches Council and runs through Manly, Fairlight and Balgowla in Sydney’s northern suburbs. The signs were revealed Friday in a report by CNN affiliate 7News Sydney. The city’s website states that buses are the primary form of public transportation in coastal areas. According to 7News, it will be at the driver’s discretion whether…
Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and George Russell set the fastest time ahead of Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton on the final day of the first Bahrain test, amid continued arguments and counterarguments from F1’s four leading teams as to who will be the real protagonists in early 2026.Russell took the lead in the Friday morning session with a then-best fastest lap in testing at 1 minute 33.918 seconds, and teammate Antonelli improved his time twice during the afternoon session. The Italian youngster ended up clocking a time of 1:33.669, setting a benchmark for his first week of running in Sakhir. Hamilton raced all…
Swiss Franc banknotes in Lausanne, Switzerland, December 23, 2025.Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty ImagesIf you ask investors to name their safe-haven currencies, most will say the US dollar, the Swiss franc, or the Japanese yen.Investors have historically expected value to be maintained even during geopolitical or economic turmoil.But recently, these currencies themselves have experienced volatility. The dollar and yen depreciated sharply from 2025 to 2026. The franc has strengthened, but this is difficult for an export-dependent country with unusually low inflation.dollar declineUS President Donald Trump has reordered global trade to impose tariffs in 2025, triggering a “Sell America” trade…
As European leaders prepared for a combative Munich Security Conference on Friday, Germany’s Friedrich Merz sternly pointed out that the international world order “no longer exists”, one of the few points of agreement between the fractious allies in the Atlantic alliance. Merz’s speech at the South Germany conference, which brings together officials from around the world to discuss international security and hold diplomatic negotiations, highlighted the widening rift between the United States and Europe. The German leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has warned that European freedoms “can no longer be taken for granted” in an era when major…