No fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got real

“My mother is going crazy with this cooking on charcoal,” said a woman in the rural mid-Cuban town of Sancti Spíritus, who then asked to remain anonymous because otherwise she would have to “make a will to bequeath the charcoal stove to my daughter as her only inheritance”.
Brazil’s Lucas Pinheiro Braathen wins giant slalom, earns South America’s 1st medal at Winter Games

“It’s a moment that’s hard to grasp, even though it’s crystal clear that you are officially the Olympic champion,” Pinheiro Braathen explained. “Even though I had such faith and I knew that this was written for me, it is still so incredible to live that dream turned reality. I couldn’t quite grasp it.”
No Black Girls Allowed on Epstein Island’ — The Viral Claim That Erased Epstein’s Black Victims

Accuracy, context, and survivor visibility remain essential. They push back against erasure and against sensationalism alike. When reporting centres the full scope of victims rather than selective narratives, it resists the quiet habit of sweeping Black women and girls out of view and restores the human weight that documents alone cannot carry.
Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa

Locally, every land-clearing decision matters. Removing natural vegetation adds heat to communities, but keeping forests and cover on the land helps hold temperatures down. The message is straightforward. Countries cannot control global warming on their own, but they can control how the land responds to it.
