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Cuba hit by national blackout (Picture credit: Reuters) HAVANA: A hurricane was bearing down on Cuba Sunday as the island nation's authorities scrambled to restore power following a massive nationwide outage.The expected arrival of Hurricane Oscar, just days after the failure of Cuba's largest power plant crippled the national grid, piles more pressure on a country already battling sky-high inflation and shortages of food, medicine, fuel and water.President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Saturday in a post on social media that authorities in the east of the island were "working hard to protect the people and economic resources, given the imminent arrival of Hurricane Oscar".Packing winds of 140 kilometers (85 miles) per hour, Oscar was forecast to reach eastern Cuba on Sunday, where heavy rains ar...

Cuba blackout (Photo: AP) Cuba faced a nationwide blackout on Friday following the collapse of one of its major power plants, leaving millions of residents in the dark. The crisis struck after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant ceased operations, triggering a total grid failure across the island and prompting the government to implement emergency measures, as reported by the Associated Press.However, most of Cuba's 10 million residents remained without power as officials from the grid operator UNE rushed to restart several oil-fired generation plants to restore electricity. Prime Minister Manuel Marrero announced the closure of schools and non-essential industries, sending most state workers home in an effort to conserve power.Residents endured shortages of food, fuel, water, and m...

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