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1. Cuba's president lashes out at Trump's threats to take the island as regional support weakens

   

   Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has lashed out after U.S. President Donald Trump said that he can do "whatever he wants" with the Caribbean island and that Washington could take "imminent action" against it.

2. Trump has delayed the Beijing summit. China wonders if he'll ever come to the negotiating table

   

   The question echoing through Beijing’s diplomatic and political circles is whether U.S. President Donald Trump will show up for a summit in Beijing that was originally supposed to take place this month. Distracted by a self-launched war in Iran and facing mounting domestic pressure, Trump has pushed the China file to the side to focus on war strategy.

3. U.S. civil rights leader Dolores Huerta says Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted her in the 1960s

   

   Civil rights ​leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez and fought alongside him for decades to expand labour rights in the U.S., on Wednesday accused Chavez of sexually assaulting her in the 1960s.

4. Iran hits Qatar energy hub after its Pars oil field struck

   

   Iran accused Israel of striking its facilities in the huge Pars gas field on Wednesday in a major escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war that sent oil prices ‌shooting higher, and retaliated ‌by vowing attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf, firing missiles at Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

5. Last detainee from Trump’s 2025 Gaza war protest crackdown freed after a year

   

   For Leqaa Kordia, her newfound freedom means little to her until “everybody is free." “There is a lot of injustice in this place,” Kordia told reporters after emerging from a U.S. immigration detention centre in Texas on Monday. “There are a lot of people that shouldn’t be here in the first place. We’re going to keep fighting for them.”