The Cuban government said Wednesday that 13 soldiers had died after an explosion a week earlier in an arms depot in the country’s east. Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a statement Wednesday that “it is officially declared that the 13 comrades are deceased.” The explosion, which the ministry said was likely the cause of a short circuit and power failure, happened on Tuesday last week in…

Sir Keir Starmer has made his first trip to Kyiv as prime minister, vowing to put Ukraine in the “strongest possible position” in 2025. Arriving on Thursday morning, he accompanied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lay flowers at a wall of remembrance for those killed in the war with Russia – telling reporters the UK will “never let up” on giving the necessary support to Ukraine. The trip is taking…

….Outlines threats, challenges President Joe Biden, in his farewell address to the nation Wednesday, spent little time dwelling on the accomplishments of his single term in office, instead telling Americans he wanted to use his final address “to warn the country of some things that give me great concern.” Calling to mind President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address, he warned of the dangers of the potential rise of a tech industrial…

World’s richest person, Elon Musk will be among several billionaires attending Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration. Tesla CEO, Musk was instrumental in Trump’s reelection with his contribution of over a quarter of a billion dollars to Trump’s campaign coffers, according to Forbes. Musk is set to head Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), along with Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur. Reports say that Musk is slated to be seated…

A tribunal in the UK has dismissed £494 million lawsuit alleging anti-competitive agreement between Apple and Amazon to restrict resellers. Apple and Amazon have successfully defended against a major lawsuit in the UK accusing the tech giants of colluding to limit resellers of new Apple products on Amazon’s website. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled on Tuesday that the case could not proceed. The lawsuit, filed by consumer law academic, Christine…

The Palestinian Authority must be the sole governing power in Gaza after the war, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said on Wednesday, as expectations grew that a deal to halt fighting and start returning Israeli hostages was near. Who will run Gaza after the war remains one of the great unanswered questions in the negotiations, which have focused on an immediate ceasefire and exchanging hostages still held in the enclave…

Russia has been planning acts of ‘air terror’ against airlines worldwide, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sensationally claimed on Wednesday as he met with Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw. Tusk accused Moscow of staging sabotage and diversion on Polish soil and beyond. ”All I can say, and I will not go into details, but I can confirm the validity of these fears, is that Russia has been planning acts…

Meta on Wednesday responded to Ashwini Vaishnaw’s post on X, calling Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on the Indian election “disappointing.” The Instagram parent company apologised for its CEO’s “inadvertent error” and reiterated that India is an “important country.” Union Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, while taking offence to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent remarks about Indian elections, had written on X, “As the world’s largest democracy, India conducted the 2024 elections with over 640 million…

Beleaguered Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea’s first sitting president to be arrested after investigators scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody. Yoon, 64, is being investigated on charges of insurrection for a failed martial law order on 3 December that plunged the country into turmoil. He has also been impeached by parliament and suspended – but will only be removed from office if…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, claiming that his 2022 purchase of Twitter shares violated securities laws. The SEC’s court filing, published Tuesday, asserts that Musk failed to submit a required beneficial ownership report after acquiring more than five per cent of Twitter’s common stock in March 2022. The SEC argues that Musk’s failure to file the report on time allowed him…

Spanish police have announced the arrest of three “extremely dangerous” suspected mafia members wanted in Italy for crimes, including attempted murder, weapons trafficking and money laundering. A police statement on Tuesday said the suspects were “one of the heads of a dangerous family clan” of the Neapolitan Camorra, his son, and his son-in-law, without naming the three. They were recently detained in the southern Spanish coastal town of Marbella, where…

Mediators have handed Israel and Hamas the final draft of a deal that could finally bring the 15-month-long Gaza war to a close — with US officials saying a ceasefire was closer than it’s ever been after a midnight breakthrough in negotiations. An official briefed on the talks — which have been attended by envoys of both US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump — told Reuters that Qatar…