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UAE pulled the plug on financing the development of the upgraded F5 fighter jet after negotiations on joint financing with France broke down.This comes after Paris offered Abu Dhabi the opportunity to join the program in December 2025 in exchange for investment, but without the participation of local companies or access to technology.According to La…
People spend the night in the dark on the Malecon during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A second power outage in five days— and the third this month — left Cuba without electricity on Saturday, with authorities later attributing it to an “unexpected failure” at a generating unit…
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday criticised repeated threats from US President Donald Trump, warning that Cuba will resist any form of external aggression even as the country faces a worsening fuel and economic crisis.In a post on X, Diaz-Canel said, “Faced with the worst-case scenario, Cuba has one guarantee: any external aggressor will encounter…
NEW DELHI: After hours of confusion, concern and meme-fuelled speculation, Virat Kohli’s Instagram account is back online. India’s most-followed Instagram handle, which had suddenly disappeared earlier on Friday, reappeared without any official explanation from either the former India captain or Instagram, bringing relief to millions of cricket fans who had feared something was amiss.Go Beyond…
US President Donald Trump has said that he will talk to Elon Musk to restore internet services amid digital blackout in Iran. When asked by a reporter if he plans to use Starlink to help people in the country, Trump replied: “We may speak to Elon (Musk) because he’s very good at that kind of…
Fog and power outages darken the skyline as traffic moves in San Francisco (Picture credit: AP) A massive power outage plunged large parts of San Francisco into darkness on Saturday, affecting nearly a third of the city and disrupting transport, businesses and daily life, before electricity was gradually restored late in the evening.At its peak,…
NEW DELHI: The fatal crash of an Indian Air Force Tejas fighter jet at the Dubai Air Show 2025 has prompted defence experts to raise the possibility of a “G-force blackout”, after visuals showed the aircraft abruptly losing height during a low-altitude manoeuvre before plunging to the ground. Wing Commander Naman Syal, who was piloting…
The US government will not publish consumer inflation data for October after a 43-day federal shutdown disrupted data collection, intensifying uncertainty ahead of the Federal Reserve’s December policy meeting.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said it “is unable to retroactively collect” consumer price data for October and will not release the report originally scheduled for…
Google-parent Alphabet and Disney announced that they’ve reached a deal to restore content from ABC and ESPN onto Google’s YouTube TV. YouTube TV and Disney reached the new carriage agreement, ending a two-week blackout that started on October 31. The stalemate pulled major networks including ABC, ESPN and FX from the streaming TV platform. The…
Walt Disney has reportedly signaled that it is gearing up for a potentially prolonged fight with YouTube TV over distribution of its television networks. Disney’s networks disappeared from YouTube TV — the fourth-largest pay-TV provider in the US with about 10 million subscribers — on October 30. YouTube TV blackout for Disney marks the latest…
