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America's oil squeeze on Cuba

The United States has imposed economic pressure on Cuba for 64 years. Now, for the first time, Washington is threatening to punish any country that sells oil to the island. President Trump's January 29 executive order creates a tariff mechanism targeting third countries that supply Cuban fuel—a significant escalation that goes beyond traditional bilateral sanctions to coerce allies and trading partners into joining an energy blockade. The strategy has proven devastatingly effective: Cuba's national power grid collapsed entirely on March 17, 2026, leaving approximately 10 million people without electricity and triggering ten consecutive days of street protests—the most visible civil unrest in years. The blackout deepened shortages of food, medicine, and water, and included the vandalization of a Cuban Communist Party provincial office in Morón, signaling fractures in state control.

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Crypto companies race to public markets as industry sheds post-FTX stigma

Abra, a cryptocurrency wealth management platform that paid more than $83 million in regulatory settlements over the past two years, announced a $750 million merger with a blank-check company to list on Nasdaq. The deal with New Providence Acquisition Corp. III would deliver up to $300 million in cash to fund expansion of Abra's institutional lending, yield, and custody business—now the company's sole focus after it shut down its retail operations amid enforcement actions.

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New antibiotics reach advanced trials as drug-resistant infections kill over a million per year

No genuinely new class of antibiotic has reached patients since 1987. In the nearly four decades since, bacteria have steadily evolved resistance to existing drugs, and carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii—a hospital-acquired pathogen that kills up to 60 percent of ventilated pneumonia patients—now sits atop the World Health Organization's list of critical-priority threats. On March 16, 2026, Swiss biotech BioVersys received clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin enrolling American patients in a Phase 3 pivotal trial of BV100, a drug that cut 28-day mortality in half during earlier testing.

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