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Why Trump means the Cuban Revolution faces its biggest threat yet4 hours agoShareSaveWill GrantMexico, Central America and Cuba CorrespondentShareSaveBBCA sizeable exhibit in the Museum of the Revolution in Havana is dedicated to conditions in Cuba before the revolution took power in 1959. Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.
The enduring image is of a woman in a dirt-floored palm-leaf hut cooking with firewood. Similar pictures appear in state museums across the island from the Bay of Pigs to Birán, the birthplace of the father of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. The inference is clear: the revolutionaries saved Cubans from the ignorance and hardship of life under a Washington-backed de facto leader and led them to dignity, education and true independence.
Yet today, Lisandra Botey identifies more with the impove..

Shot in school uniform: BBC reveals police order led to Gen Z protest killings10 hours agoShareSaveSubina Shrestha,BBC Eye InvestigationsandDeepak Kharel,BBC Eye InvestigationsShareSaveBBCAn order allowing the use of lethal fire against thousands of young, unarmed protesters in Nepal was issued by the country's former police chief, a BBC investigation reveals.
Among the 19 people killed in the capital, Kathmandu, on 8 September last year was a teenager in school uniform, who had been walking away from the crowd when he was shot in the back of the head. Dozens more were injured.
The events at the so-called Gen Z demonstrations – which had followed weeks of simmering anger about political corruption – sparked further protests leading to the resignation of Nepal's prime minister and the collapse of its government a day later.
The BBC World Service team has seen an internal police document detailing events on 8 September. It reveals someone using the call sign “Peter 1” told his ..

'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud17 hours agoShareSaveQuentin SommervilleInternational correspondent, in Culiacán, MexicoShareSaveDarren Conway/BBCMembers of the Sinaloa cartel have split into rival factions engaged in a deadly warMexico's president has praised the special forces for “bringing down” the country's most wanted man, drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.
Oseguera, better known as “El Mencho”, died in custody on Sunday, shortly after being captured amid a bloody firefight in Jalisco.
But as the BBC's Quentin Sommerville found in another Mexican cartel hotspot – Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state – the vacuum left by the removal of a powerful cartel leader can trigger a surge in violence as warring factions battle for control.
Darren Conway/BBCAs part of their work, paramedics Julio César Vega and Héctor Torres witness some of the bloody fallout from the violenceWarning: This article contains..

Trump's theatrical State of the Union address offers little hint of any change in courseJust nowShareSaveAnthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent on Capitol HillShareSaveWatch: Partisan divisions and Olympic gold medallists among key moments in Trump addressDonald Trump delivered a combative State of the Union address on Tuesday night that hailed what he said was an American “turnaround for the ages”.
At a time when polls suggest many in the US are dissatisfied with the current state of the nation – and with Trump's leadership of it – the president offered little hint of a change of course.
Instead, with an eye on crucial midterm elections later this year, he delivered a sales pitch to the nation, a patriotic rallying cry to his loyal supporters and taunts for his political opponents.
It was a speech filled with theatrical flourishes – the kind of made-for-the-cameras moments the man who once hosted a reality television show seems to enjoy.
Early on, he welcomed the US Olym..

Japan to deploy missiles on island near Taiwan by 20314 hours agoShareSaveKelly NgandShaimaa Khalil,Tokyo correspondentShareSaveGetty ImagesYonaguni is visible from Taiwan's shores on a clear dayJapan plans to deploy surface-to-air missiles to its remote western island near Taiwan by March 2031, its defence minister said, as regional tensions simmer.
It is the first time that Japan specified a timeline for the missile deployment to Yonaguni island since it was announced in 2022.
China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and has not ruled out the use of force to “reunify” with it. Yonaguni is visible from Taiwan's shores on a clear day, located just 110km (68 miles) away.
Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing have run high since November when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi appeared to suggest that Japan would activate its self-defence force in the event of an attack on Taiwan.
The worry has long been that any attack on Taiwan, which counts the US as an ally, could result ..