Hurricane Rafael moves across Gulf of Mexico as a rare major November storm while Cuba recovers
Rafael was moving west across the Gulf of Mexico Friday morning as the first major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in ...
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Cuba’s grid goes offline with massive blackout after a major power plant fails
Havana — Cuba’s electrical grid went down Friday after ... is no electricity anywhere,” said Luis González, a 73-year-old retiree in Havana. Early Friday, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero ...
'There is no electricity': Canadian travellers in Cuba urge caution in hurricane's wake
Inside the hotel, tourists are searching for outlets to keep their phones charged and moments of Wi-Fi access to contact their families. Cuba's power grid was knocked ... is about 130 kilometres east ...
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Energy woes latest blow for Cuba
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Cuba left reeling after Category 3 hurricane ravages island and knocks out power grid
Cuba is reeling after a powerful Category 3 hurricane ripped across the island and fierce winds knocked out the country’s power grid. The magnitude of the impact from Hurricane Rafael ...
Nutcracker in Havana review — Carlos Acosta gives Christmas classic a snazzy Cuban twist
Acosta sticks tight to the familiar scenario. Clara’s naughty brother Fritz and friends tease the girls and break the Nutcracker doll (restyled as a mambí guerrilla from the Cuban war of independence) ...
The 41 global cities and towns to visit in your lifetime
They’re among the world’s best food destinations, with a deep sense of place, and a vibrant past. But for all their similarities, they’re utterly one-of-a-kind.
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Cuba beyond postcards. This photographer didn’t want to come back with just ‘travel pictures’
With his series on Cuba, Rohit Chawla has ventured into painting. 'Almost everybody’s a photographer now. I had to reinvent ...
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Falling off the map: how Cuba has vanished from travellers’ itineraries
Havana is a ... been on the terrible old Ilyushin 62s of the national airline, Cubana, from Stansted. While in 1989 only a few thousand British travellers made it to Cuba, by the end of the ...
The World's Oldest Cocktails Might Surprise You
You might be surprised when certain cocktails were invented. Here's a list of some of the world's oldest (and most popular) ...
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Falling off the map: how Cuba has vanished from travellers’ itineraries
Havana is a city that I imagine you know well – even if you have never been there to witness its rustic metropolitanism. The Cuban capital lives up to its stereotype. It is a beautifully dilapidated ...
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Cubans endure days without power as energy crisis hits hard
As Cuba approached its fourth day without power this week, Yusely Perez turned to the only fuel source left available to her: firewood. Her neighbourhood in Havana ... so many hotels in the ...