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At least 15 protesters were sentenced to up to nine years in prison after participating in a day of protests in Cuba last year over power and food shortages, the island's Supreme Court said. Hundreds of people took to the streets in three Cuban cities on March 17, 2024, during a tense weekend of blackouts that lasted up to 13 hours a day in some provinces. The marches in Santiago de Cuba, Bayamo and Santa Marta were the largest since the social unrest of July 11, 2021, which saw hundreds of protesters convicted, some with sentences of up to 25 years.

An emerging TikTok deal with China will ensure that U.S. companies control the algorithm that powers the app's video feed and Americans will hold a majority of seats on a board overseeing US operations, the White House said Saturday. A central question to the tug of war between Washington and Beijing has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm after the potential divestment of Chinese parent company ByteDance. Congress passed legislation calling for a TikTok ban to go into effect in January, but President Donald Trump has repeatedly signed orders that have allowed TikTok to keep operating in the United States as his administration tries to reach agreement for ByteDance to sell its U.S. operations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said tech giant Oracle would be responsible for the app’s data and security and that Americans will control six of the seven seats for a planned board. “We are 100% confident that a deal is done, now that deal just needs to be signed and the president’s team is working with their Chinese counterparts to do just that,” Leavitt told Fox News' “Saturday in America” A day earlier, Trump and China's Xi Jinping discussed a TikTok deal in a lengthy phone call.

Anti-immigration protesters in The Hague on Saturday clashed with Dutch police, who used water cannon and tear gas to disperse them, according to the Netherlands' news agency ANP. Around 1,500 people had massed on a highway crossing the city, where they confronted the security forces at the scene, the ANP said, citing police figures. Protesters launched bottles and rocks at the officers while a police car was torched. The demonstrators also took aim at the offices of social-democratic party D66, whose windows were shattered. The police made an unspecified number of arrests, the ANP reported. "Stay away from political parties," the D66's leader, Rob Jetten, posted on X.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday called upon the industrial ecosystem of the country to come forward and support the rapid industrialisation of Jammu and Kashmir, saying big companies, corporate houses and MSMEs must take a pledge that the development of the Union territory will be their personal responsibility. "Big companies, corporate houses and MSMEs of the country must take a pledge that the industrial development of Jammu and Kashmir will be their personal responsibility. The industrial ecosystem of the country should come forward and support the rapid industrialisation of the Union territory," he said while interacting with the industry leaders at the 4th CII Northern Regional Council Meeting here.

US military strikes this month on three boats allegedly smuggling drugs in the Caribbean have drawn attention to the large naval and spy-aircraft presence the Pentagon has deployed for what it calls a counternarcotics and counterterrorism mission. Military officials, diplomats and analysts say the operation’s broader goal is to increase pressure on Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, whom senior Trump administration figures label an illegitimate leader tied to criminal gangs and drug cartels. “We’re not going to have a cartel masquerading as a government in our hemisphere,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Fox News, noting that Maduro has been indicted in the US and is “a fugitive of American justice.”

Russian pilots ignored signals from Italian jets responding from NATO's Baltic Air Policing Mission when they violated Estonian airspace, a senior Estonian military official said Saturday. The 12-minute incursion was the latest test of the alliance's ability to respond to Russian airborne threats after around 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace on Sept. 10. Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday denied its aircraft flew into Estonia’s airspace, after Tallinn reported three fighter jets crossed into its territory on Friday without permission.

Estonian officials dismissed the denial, saying the violation was confirmed by radar and visual contact and suggested it could be a tactic to draw Western resources away from Ukraine.