US president Donald Trump has raised the possibility of the United States “taking” Cuba, telling reporters at the White House: “I do believe I will be having the honour of taking Cuba.” “Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it,” he said. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”

More than 270,000 Americans, particularly those in the Pacific Northwest and Deep South, are experiencing widespread outages.

A blackout has left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid.

Power outages affected thousands of San Antonio residents following a night of high winds driven by a cold front.