Cubans Will Soon Get Full Internet Access on Their Mobile Phones

(HAVANA) — Cuba announced Tuesday night that its citizens will be offered full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week, becoming one of the last nations to offer such service.

Mayra Arevich, president of the Cuban state telecom monopoly ETECSA, went on national television to say Cubans can begin contracting 3G service for the first time Thursday.

Until now, Cubans have had access only to state-run email accounts on their phones.

The Cuban government has been building a 3G network in cities across the island and some tourists, Cuban government officials and foreign businesspeople have had access to it for several years.

The communist-governed island has one of the world’s lowest rates of internet use but that has been expanding rapidly since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro declared detente in 2014. Expansion has not slowed with President Donald Trump’s partial rollback of relations.

Cuba authorized home internet in 2017 and hundreds of public Wi-Fi connection ..

In Historic Rebuke, the British Government Was Found to Be in Contempt of Parliament Over Brexit

(LONDON) — Britain’s Parliament dealt Prime Minister Theresa May’s government two bruising defeats Tuesday, and that was before lawmakers began an epic debate that will decide the fate of May’s European Union divorce deal and her political career.

Opening five days of debate on the Brexit agreement, May said that since the British people voted in 2016 to leave the EU, it was the “duty of this Parliament to deliver on the result” of the referendum.

Despite her entreaties, the government appeared to be on a collision course with an increasingly assertive Parliament.

Minutes before May rose to speak, lawmakers delivered a historic rebuke, finding her Conservative government in contempt of Parliament for refusing to publish the advice it had received from the country’s top law officer about the Brexit deal.

The reprimand, while largely symbolic, marks the first time a British government has been found in contempt of Parliament. The 311-293 vote demonstrated the fragility of May’s gover..

A Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Has Struck in the Pacific Near New Caledonia

(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — A powerful earthquake that struck in the southern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday sent jitters around the region after authorities warned of possible tsunamis, but there were no initial reports of destructive waves or major damage.

The magnitude 7.5 quake hit in the afternoon near the French territory of New Caledonia at a shallow depth, where earthquakes are generally more damaging. It was felt as far away as Vanuatu, about 630 kilometers (390 miles) away

Tsunami sirens blared across New Caledonia minutes after the quake. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami waves of between 1 and 3 meters (3 and 10 feet) were possible along some coasts of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, before later lifting the warning.

Local authorities in New Caledonia ordered residents to evacuate coastal zones on the eastern edge of the archipelago, including the Loyalty Islands and the island of Ile des Pins. The evacuation order from the regional police said western islands didn’..

Takhle kruté to nepamatuji, říká znalec Francie Syruček. BIS? Ta prý neříká všechno, třeba o akcích USA. Je zde příběh

ROZHOVOR Francie je ve varu. Tedy rodilí Francouzi, protože přistěhovalce dění v zemi galského kohouta nijak zvláště nezajímá. Na „žluté vesty“ se nabalili anarchisté, což je tradiční, ale smutná zkušenost západní Evropy. Macron hodil nekolegiálně, ale takticky řešení problémů na premiéra. A zdá se, že problém je alespoň posunut – zvýšení cen pohonných hmot, energií i další nepopulární opatření se posunují. Nespokojenost proti vládě bílých límečků však neutuchá. Francie už není zemí, co bývala. Oligarchové včetně našeho miliardáře Křetínského kupují šmahem jejich média. I ten dříve vyhlášený a dnes stejně jako řada jiných titulů zprofanovaný LeMonde bude jeho. Ukrajinský prezident si vyhlášením výjimečného stavu řeší problém své mimořádné neoblíbenosti a blížících se voleb. A zpráva BIS? Je dobře, že alespoň víme, kdo nám to tu „šmejdí“… Toto všechno uvádí v rozhovoru pro ParlamentníListy.cz novinářský nestor, odborník na Francii Milan Syruček.

Volkswagen buduje alianci s Fordem

Německá automobilka Volkswagen buduje alianci se společností Ford Motor a k montáži vozů ve Spojených státech může využít její závody. Po jednání v Bílém domě to v úterý prohlásil šéf VW Herbert Diess. Německá firma zvažuje také výstavbu druhého závodu v USA, uvedla agentura Reuters.

Sicilian Mafia Boss Arrested in Raid Authorities Say ‘Dismantled’ Rebuilt Cosa Nostra Leadership

(ROME) — Italian authorities said Tuesday they had dismantled the rebuilt upper echelons of the Mafia in the Sicilian capital by arresting 46 people, including the man presumed to have taken over as provincial kingpin after the death of “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina.

Based on wiretaps, police determined that Settimo Mineo was elected head of a reconstructed “cupola,” or provincial mob commission, during a May 29 meeting of clan leaders in Palermo. It was the first time clan leaders had gathered in such a forum for years, and followed Riina’s November 2017 death, prosecutors said.

Italy’s chief anti-Mafia prosecutor, Federico Cafiero de Raho, said the election of Mineo, 80, was significant because it showed that the center of power of Cosa Nostra had shifted to Palermo. Under Riina, its longtime base was Corleone, the Sicilian town made famous by writer Mario Puzo when he used Corleone as the main character’s name in his 1969 novel “The Godfather.”

Police recalled that the ..