China is significantly increasing its support for Cuba's energy transition, including a massive ramp-up in solar equipment exports and pledges to help build nearly 100 solar parks and the island’s largest wind farm.
Days after resigning and under investigation for sharing classified information, the former counterterrorism head stokes a growing debate over Israel and antisemitism on the right
JTA — After resigning this week over what he said was Israel’s manipulation of US President Donald Trump into war with Iran, former national counterterrorism director Joe Kent is now insinuating Israel may have also killed Charlie Kirk as part of its pressure campaign.
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By Rachel Chason, Evan Halper, Victoria Craw, Siham Shamalakh and Tara Copp
DUBAI — Iran’s escalating strikes on energy infrastructure across the Persian Gulf are stoking fears of a full-blown energy crisis, sending already high oil and gas prices surging and widening the scope of a war that has spilled across the region and upended the global economy.
March 18, 2026
Washington’s bluster and Moscow’s platitudes look threadbare next to Havana’s determination to survive on its own terms.
Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz‑Canel, answered President Donald Trump’s recent boasts about an “honor” in “taking Cuba” with a blunt declaration: any attempt to seize the island would meet “unbreakable resistance.”
Israel launches a series of strikes on Lebanon's capital Beirut and orders evacuations in the country's south, as it continues its offensive against Hezbollah
One blast flattened a building in the city centre - this isn't the so-called Hezbollah heartland of southern Beirut, but an area surrounded by businesses and hotels, writes the BBC's Wyre Davies from the scene
Meanwhile, the US military says it has used powerful "deep penetrator" bombs to hit Iranian missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz; the vital waterway for transporting oil has been effectively blocked by Iran since the war began
By Juliano Fiori
As US power declines, it is destroying the norms and institutions that once organized its international projection of authority. While the US is losing its leadership role, no single power is replacing it as a global hegemon.
If there was still any doubt about our coordinates after a decade of shocks to the normal order of things, the disorientating opening of this year has confirmed that we are not in Kansas anymore. A new geopolitics is taking form, particularly evident in the ongoing US-Israeli bombardment of Iran, in the US abduction of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, and in the positioning of European troops in Greenland following Donald Trump’s claims on the island.
Roughly 3,800 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 are now on strike at one of the country’s largest meatpacking plants in Greeley, Colorado, after months of negotiations over wages, health insurance costs, and working conditions. (Chet Strange / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
- US President Donald Trump says it would be "very bad for the future of Nato" if allies don't help secure the Strait of Hormuz - a critical waterway for global oil shipping
- In an interview with the Financial Times, Trump says he expects China to help unblock the strait and could delay a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping if it doesn't
