Cuba restores power grid but planned outages to resume amid energy crisis

School and work activities resume, but Cuban authorities say policy of rolling, five-hour daily blackouts will continue. Authorities say Cuba’s national electricity grid has been reconnected but is still struggling…

Russia’s Lavrov clashes with Blinken at OSCE meeting

Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserts Ukraine’s sovereign right to make choices about its future without interference from Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has clashed indirectly with US Secretary…

Hezbollah backs Syria’s al-Assad as opposition forces intensify offensive

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for de-escalation, warns tens of thousands in Syria are at risk. Hezbollah’s secretary-general Naim Qassem has pledged the Lebanese group will stand by the…

Bahamas rejects Trump proposal to take in deported third-country migrants

Countries across the Americas are bracing for US president-elect’s plan to carry out a mass deportation operation. The Bahamas says it has rejected a proposal from the transition team of…

New details emerge after mysterious tar balls washed up on Australia’s most iconic beaches

Mysterious tar balls have washed up on famous beaches Preliminary tests have revealed what mysterious balls are READ MORE: Bondi, Maroubra, Clovelly, Gordons Bay, and Coogee beaches closed over black…

ANDREW ROBERTS: I knew Lady Thatcher and see echoes of her in Badenoch

There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu. ‘Strident’, they call her, and ‘shrill’. ‘She’ll cross the road to pick a fight,’ they say. ‘Aggression across the despatch box is not…

‘Diddy assassinated Liam Payne’: The wildly outlandish theories flying online as sleuths weigh in on One Direction star’s death

Outlandish conspiracy theories suggesting a link between Liam Payne‘s death and his ‘fearful’ encounter with beleaguered hip hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs have emerged just hours after the 31-year-old singer…

Nelson Rockefeller’s former aide uses self-penned obituary to hint at scandalous affair

Megan Marshack, the journalist and aide to former vice president Nelson Rockefeller, has died in California at the age of 70. After decades of silence, Marshack used a self-penned obituary…

MLB Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley’s daughter avoids jail after abandoning minutes-old baby to freeze in woods

Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley’s daughter has escaped with a suspended sentence for dumping her newborn son in the freezing woods. Alexandra Eckersley, 27, was sentenced to 12 months…

Malaysia, Thailand brace for more rains after floods kill more than 30

With tens of thousands already displaced, both countries set up shelters, rescue teams and evacuation plans in anticipation of further downpours. Authorities in Thailand and Malaysia are on high alert…