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handwritten on negative envelope, “12-27-56, Dr. Belafu" envelope from Sunset Drug Company, 2481 Mission Stret, San Francisco

Ten million people left without power in latest of outages that sparked violent protest last weekend

Cuba’s national electric grid has collapsed, the country’s grid operator has said, leaving approximately 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system.

The grid operator, UNE, said on social media on Monday that it was investigating the causes of the blackout, the latest in a series of widespread outages that last for hours or days and that last weekend sparked a rare violent protest in the communist-run country.

Time is running out to find agreement on areas such as tuition fees EU citizens would pay in Britain and rules for food safety

The EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit.

At a public meeting of the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly in Brussels, the European Commission vice-president and trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, said both sides had to “change gears” now to ensure the deal got over the line.

The diversified Academy and a mutating industry have changed what many had come to expect from the stuffy, rule-following Oscars

Last year, as the major fall film festivals took place around the world, it was hard to make out the sound of audience applause. It wasn’t an attendance issue or that booing was heard instead (that’s solely a Cannes response), it was that, for many, hands were too busy wringing to find time to clap.

The trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto was once seen as an inescapable fixture on a film’s road to the Oscars. Best picture winners such as 12 Years a Slave, Spotlight, Birdman, Moonlight, The Shape of Water and Green Book all rose within that circuit and cemented their reception at festivals and world premieres and often felt judged for awards potential over quality. But over the past few years, as the Academy has changed and diversified its voting body and as the industry has changed in so many other ways, something has shifted. Winning films have come from Cannes, Sundance, SXSW and, most shockingly, no festival at all …

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Pep Guardiola has admitted that Manchester City require a “perfect game” to overturn Real Madrid’s 3-0 lead in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday.

Álvaro Arbeloa’s team are firm favourites to progress to the quarter-finals after their victory at the Bernabéu last week when Madrid’s captain, Federico Valverde, scored a first-half hat-trick.

PM refuses to be drawn into wider conflict as Germany and Italy defy Trump’s call to help reopen strait of Hormuz

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Keir Starmer has insisted that the UK will not be drawn into the wider war in the Middle East as European leaders ruled out sending warships to the strait of Hormuz.

In his clearest signal yet of the UK’s divergence from Donald Trump’s attack on Iran, the prime minister said he would stand firm in the face of US pressure despite the decision being “difficult, there’s no hiding that”.

The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores

GTC  Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.…

GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever

GTC  Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. …

BRUSSEL (ANP/RTR) - Italië, Frankrijk en zeven andere landen hebben Brussel gewaarschuwd voor de milieurisico's rond de Russische lng-tanker die stuurloos op de Middellandse Zee dobbert. Dat meldt persbureau Reuters, dat inzage had in de brief die de landen stuurden naar de Europese Commissie. Daarin roepen de landen de Europese Unie op snel actie te ondernemen.

De Arctic Metagaz zou volgens Rusland eerder deze maand door Oekraïne zijn aangevallen met zeedrones en vaart sindsdien stuurloos tussen Italië en Malta. CNN schat op basis van Italiaanse autoriteiten dat het vaartuig nog circa 60.000 ton lng en 900 ton diesel aan boord heeft. Vermoed wordt dat het schip deel uitmaakt van de zogenoemde schaduwvloot waarmee Rusland sancties die zijn ingesteld tegen het land probeert te omzeilen.

Het schip was van Moermansk onderweg naar Egypte toen het werd geraakt. Nadat brand was uitgebroken op het schip, verlieten de dertig opvarenden de tanker. Zij werden naar Libië gebracht.