North America (Americas)

Residents of a community near Volcan de Fuego leave the municipal shelter after the volcano's activity decreased, in San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala June 6, 2025.
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted for 30 hours of intense activity, sending ash miles high and forcing over 700 evacuations before officials declared the eruption over.
FILE PHOTO: People pass by an office of state-run telecommunications company ETECSA in Havana, Cuba June 3, 2025.
Cuban students clamored on Wednesday for further concessions to roll back a rate hike on internet data, saying a decision on Monday to offer them discounted access did not go far enough.
People walk on the street during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, May 13, 2025.
Daily blackouts averaging four hours or more have become the new normal across Cuba's capital of Havana, an unsettling sign of a still-unresolved energy crisis as the sultry Caribbean summer sets in.
FILE PHOTO: A man uses his mobile phone during an electrical grid collapse, in Havana, Cuba, December 4, 2024.
Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed late on Friday, the country's Energy and Mines ministry said, leading to widespread blackouts in the capital Havana and across the Caribbean island nation.
FILE PHOTO: People sit outside their home during a blackout following the failure of a major power plant, Havana, Cuba February 13, 2025.
For Maria Elena Veiga, a 60-year-old Cuban housewife living on the outskirts of Havana, charcoal has become the go-to fuel for cooking due to frequent blackouts from the island's failing power grid.
People sit outside their home during a blackout following the failure of a major power plant, Havana, Cuba February 13, 2025.
Cuba shut schools and told non-essential workers to stay home on Friday as a major power plant failure strained the electrical grid, causing widespread blackouts across the crisis-ridden island.
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