She was too frightened to tell anyone, Patterson said.

The streets of Havana were dark and empty, with light coming only from the windows of hotels that had generators. Internet service was affected.People in provinces as far away as Guantánamo, Artemisa, Santiago de Cuba, and Santa Clara reported experiencing blackouts with just flickers of light.

Earlier, the Electric Union, the state agency that regulates the sector, said in its daily report that peak-hour demand would be around 3,250 megawatts and the deficit would reach around 1,380 megawatts, meaning 42% of the national energy system would be shut down. This figure is not the highest in recent memory.at the end of last year, leaving the island in the dark amid a serious economic crisis.Cuba’s power grid has been plagued by frequent outages, with more than half of the country experiencing power cuts during peak hours. The outages are primarily caused by

. In many parts of the island, electricity is crucial for cooking and water pumping.Authorities on the island have begun a program to install photovoltaic parks and promised that dozens of them will be ready this year. Blackouts previously prompted anti-government demonstrations in 2021, 2022, and 2024.

WELLINGTON, Nueva Zelanda (AP) — Los legisladores de Nueva Zelanda votaron el jueves para imponer suspensiones récord en el Parlamento a tres legisladores que realizaron una haka maorí para protestar contra un proyecto de ley.

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke recibió una sanción de siete días y los líderes de su partido, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer y Rawiri Waititi, están vetados por 21 días. Hasta ahora, la suspensión más larga impuesta por el parlamento neozelandés era de tres días.The action was stronger in the bond market, where Treasury yields tumbled following the weaker-than-expected economic updates.

One said that activity contracted for U.S. retailers, finance companies and other businesses in the services industries last month, when economists were expecting to see growth. Businesses told the Institute for Supply Management in its survey that all the uncertainty created by tariffs is making it difficult for them to forecast and plan.A second report from ADP suggested U.S. employers outside of the government hired far fewer workers last month than economists expected. That could bode ill for Friday’s more comprehensive jobs report coming from the U.S. Labor Department, which is one of Wall Street’s most anticipated data releases each month.

So far, the U.S. job market has remained remarkably resilient despite years of high inflation and now the threat of. But weakness there could undermine the rest of the economy.