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World · 4 August 2026

Blackout traps 10 million as Cuba grid collapses twice

Blackout traps 10 million as Cuba grid collapses twice

The Monday afternoon failure happened as crews tried to fix a nationwide power cut that began late on Sunday. UNE, the national power company, said bad weather knocked out generators that had just been brought back online. About 10 million people live on the Caribbean island, which is suffering frequent outages caused by old equipment and a lack of fuel.

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