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Cuba Plunged Into Island-Wide Blackout Amid Oil Crisis
Cuba's entire national electricity grid has collapsed, leaving all 11 million residents without power after the island stopped receiving oil shipments in early January under a US energy blockade. The blackout is the worst since the blockade began and follows a series of prolonged outages that sparked violent protests last weekend. Meanwhile, Trump separately mused about the US "taking Cuba in some form" — without providing details.
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