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Russian airlines Rossiya and Nordwind, which regularly connect Moscow with Cuban destinations such as Havana, Varadero, and Holguín, have decided to suspend their flights to the island due to a critical shortage of aviation fuel. The decision was confirmed this Wednesday by the Russian federal aviation agency Rosaviatsia. In an official statement published on Telegram, the agency explained: "Due to the difficulties in supplying aircraft fuel in Cuba, the airlines Rossiya (part of the Aeroflot group) and Nordwind were forced to modify their flight schedules to the airports in this country." According to the agency, Rossiya will operate only repatriation...

'US Special Envoy Tom Barrack plays a key role in reshaping a policy in the Middle East...'See comments there.Here is an example:Darias @Yosefewz2: Tom Berrak works only for the interests of Turkey and turns the Middle East into hell by defending ISIS number 2, Ahmad al-Shara and the terrorism of Turkish Islamic Arabism. Feb 11, 2026 [https://x.com/Yosefewz2/status/2021611202384666739]

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) prices continue to fall as the so-called "Tinkerbell Effect" fades, dropping on Wednesday morning to just under $66,000 and hovering around $67,000. Deutsche Bank senior strategist Marion Laboure sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi and Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Ines Ferré to explain what the "Tinkerbell Effect" is, what key factors are driving the shift, and what it all means for the broader crypto market. To watch more expert insights and analysis...

Listen to this article 3 min Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced. Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969. Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents. The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar posted on X to suggest that President Donald Trump should be executed. She shared a clip of an interview with Trump on Fox News with the caption "The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them." In the video, Trump was asked about the rampant fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota, which has been the subject of DOJ investigations going back into the Biden administration. Dozens have been arrested and convicted, including primarily...

Daily Readings from the USCCBWhen he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” Mark 7:17–19We experience varying levels of intimacy in our relationships. Some acquaintances, such as neighbors or colleagues, we only know superficially, while with a spouse, sibling, or close friend, we share a much deeper bond. Yet, even in the most intimate...

There's a new note in the Nancy Guthrie case, but this one doesn't seem to be from the kidnapper ... instead, it's from someone offering to give up information on the kidnapper. TMZ received the note just before 5 AM PT, and the sender claims they've tried unsuccessfully to reach Savannah Guthrie's brother, Camron, and her sister, Annie, by email and text. The note goes on, "If they want the name of the individual involved then I want 1 Bitcoin to the following wallet. Time is more than relevant." There is a legitimate bitcoin address in the note ... and...

As the Trump economy begins to boom even as inflation moderates, Democrats and the anti-Trump media are desperate for a spin that might discredit Trumponomics. Their latest Hail Mary: pushing a counterfactual narrative that President Trump’s tariffs are hurting, rather than stimulating, a manufacturing revival for blue-collar America. The latest manufacturing data obliterates that lie. In January, the ISM Manufacturing Index jumped 4.7 points to 52.6. That wasn’t just an estimate beat; it was a blowout, and an important one. The ISM Manufacturing Index is the most widely followed survey of factory activity worldwide. When it moves above 50, the...

Sir Mick Jagger’s fiancée Melanie Hamrick has revealed she was 'physically attacked' and mugged in the upmarket London district of Mayfair. The ballerina, 38, took to Instagram on Wednesday morning to detail what had happened to her, saying two muggers grabbed her from behind - leaving her 'shaken' and 'heartbroken'. Melanie wrote: 'This is incredibly hard to share, but I was physically attacked at Annabels Mayfair tonight. 'I’m so thankful to my friends for protecting me. Two people grabbed me from behind and thank god for good people who stepped in to help me. 'I’m shaken, sad and heartbroken that...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani told state lawmakers on Wednesday that the only way out of the city’s $12 billion budget gap is to raise taxes on the wealthy. Hizzoner, during his first Tin Cup Day in Albany, formally called on the state Legislature to raise income taxes on people making more than $1 million by 2%. “I’m asking for a 2% raise in personal income taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers, someone earning $1 million a year. The top 1% of New York City can afford to contribute $20,000 more in taxes,” the young mayor said. “That 2% tax alone...

USAID-funded “revolution consultants” training protesters how to topple governments and advance left-wing social causes are embedded across U.S. universities and training American activists how to carry out the same operations in the U.S.The Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), headquartered in Serbia, openly markets its expertise in “building and running successful non-violent movements.” They aim to “engage with students as much as with activists.”CANVAS received funding from USAID, which has historically used these same protest tactics to topple regime across the world. The money came through the Civil Society Engagement Program in Georgia, a five-year program that started...

Moscow will observe the limits of the last nuclear arms pact with the United States that expired last week as long as it sees that Washington is doing the same, Russia’s top diplomat said Wednesday. The New START treaty expired Feb. 5, leaving no restrictions on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than half a century and fueling fears of an unconstrained nuclear arms race. Russian President Vladimir Putin last year declared his readiness to stick to the treaty’s limits for another year if Washington followed suit, but U.S. President Trump has argued he wants...

Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say have exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”. Harriet Harman, one of the party’s most senior figures, urged Starmer to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. should have the "lowest interest rates in the world" and argued that rate cuts would significantly reduce federal borrowing costs during an interview Tuesday on FOX Business’ "Kudlow." "This country should have the lowest interest rates in the world," Trump told host Larry Kudlow. "We keep the world going." Trump tied interest rates to government interest expenses, saying that changes of a few points could significantly alter federal finances. "Every point is $600 billion," Trump said. "All he has to do if we went down two points, we don't have a deficit anymore," he...

Must-See RFK Jr. Interview Explains It All. In a Heritage Foundation forum on Monday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained without saying so why leftists hate him as they do. In laying out the accomplishments of his extraordinary first year, Kennedy attributed his success on several fronts to the man who selected him. Said Kennedy, “Trump understands the uses of power better than any president in history.” For years, as Kennedy explained, he has been troubled by the inarguable deterioration in the health of Americans, children in particular. Said Kennedy, “I prayed God would put me in a place where I...

The economy added 130,000 jobs in January — far more than economists had anticipated — while the unemployment rate edged down slightly to 4.3%, Labor Department data released Wednesday showed. Still, according to updated 2025 numbers, the job market also added a paltry 181,000 jobs for the entirety of last year, revised down from the earlier-reported growth of 584,000 jobs — the slowest pace of job growth outside recession since 2003. The releases come after private data released last week indicated the labor market remained bruising in January for out-of-work Americans, with little in the way of new jobs. Economists...

Don't. Just don't. I say this as a pastor, not a pundit. When I first saw this clip of Andy Beshear on The View, invoking his faith to defend the medical mutilation of children, my stomach dropped. Not because I was surprised. Because I was grieved. “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” I have buried children. I have prayed with parents in ICU waiting rooms. I have sat with teenagers drowning in confusion and shame. I have walked families through seasons where the pain felt unbearable....

Drones operated by Mexican drug cartels entered US airspace late Tuesday, forcing a brief closure of the skies over El Paso, Texas, a Trump administration official told The Post Wednesday morning. “Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace,” the official said. “The Department of War took action to disable the drones. The FAA and DOW have determined there is no threat to commercial travel.” The Federal Aviation Administration initially announced a 10-day restriction on air traffic over the border city, effective at 11:30 p.m. local time (1:30 a.m. ET Wednesday). Fewer than eight hours later, the FAA wrote on X: “The...

Joe Biden is apparently going to visit South Carolina later this month to celebrate his ‘lifetime of public service’ and the primary win the state delivered to him in 2020 which is credited with saving his campaign. Biden is headed to South Carolina later this month “to commemorate his pivotal primary victory and to thank him for a lifetime of public service” pic.twitter.com/yXKrr5NLPd — Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) February 10, 2026 It will be fun to see how many high ranking Democrats show up for this event and who skips it. Do you think the Obamas will be there? Would you...

Hiring increased sharply at the outset of 2026, the year's first jobs report said, blowing past economists' expectations and besting sluggish performance from the previous year. The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, according to the report, which marked a sharp increase from 50,000 jobs added in the previous month.