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It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.

Five people have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organisation has said - as Brazil investigates two suspected cases.

Scores of people have been killed following a blast at a building in northeastern Myanmar.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has visited the province hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials.

Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.  

Four people trapped for 10 days in a flooded cave in Laos have been safely evacuated by rescuers.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

A Kanye West concert in Italy has been cancelled over public order and security concerns.

Unmanned undersea vehicles will be developed under the AUKUS defence pact, US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth said.