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A United States attack on Cuba would “trigger a bloodbath with incalculable consequences”, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warns.

And he insists the Trump administration is attempting to manufacture a pretext to do exactly that.

“I was not aware of the relationship,” Ambassador Hoekstra told PressProgress about the apparent collaboration between an Alberta separatist group called the Centurion Project and a Michigan-based right-wing political group called 10xVotes.

Supermarkets across several European Union countries are reporting a marked decline in consumer demand for American-made products.

While local and European goods continue to sell out after the weekend, shelves stocked with U.S. imports — such as soft drinks, breakfast cereals, ketchup, and snack foods — remain noticeably full.

According to a study by The Reputation Institute, Canada has been named the most loved country in the world.
In second and third place are Norway and Sweden, while Switzerland and Australia round out the top 5.

“The Reputation Institute issues a yearly report of the countries with the ‘best reputations’ worldwide. Effective governments, an appealing environment and an advanced economy were the main categories for the survey. Questions to respondents range from how a country is admired to their trust and overall sentiments towards that country.”

Cuba is alleging that the US is looking for a pretext to invade it, and accuses the Trump administration of fabricating a case to justify the economic sanctions strangling the communist nation. This comes in the wake of a US media report based on classified intelligence claiming Havana acquired hundreds of drones and could use them to target Guantanamo Bay.

The whole world wants to consume Canadian:

Record $289B raised in 2025, but geopolitical risk reshapes where global capital wants to go.

Canada has claimed the top spot as the world's most attractive infrastructure investment market for the first time, displacing the United States in the latest Infrastructure Pulse survey compiled by Alvarez & Marsal in partnership with the Global Infrastructure Investor Association.

Cuban officials say the island has completely run out of diesel, crude and fuel oil amid the ongoing U.S. blockade.

For months, Canadian officials have maintained that the long-awaited opening of the $6.4 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ont., is dependent on various testing and commissioning tasks.

But fresh comments from a Canadian cabinet member as well as two top U.S. officials suggests there is a link between the current trade war and the new border crossing's opening timeline.

US President Donald Trump on May 12 posted a map graphic on his Truth Social platform depicting Venezuela with an inset American flag and the label “51st State”.
The provocative post – published while Mr Trump was en route to China for a high-stakes summit – comes a day after Venezuela’s interim president, Ms Delcy Rodriguez, said her country had “never” considered becoming the 51st state, even after US forces captured deposed leader Nicolas Maduro in January.

a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China's government.

“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,”Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.
“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn't mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,”Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.

Key findings:

- In 27 of the 29 countries surveyed in April 2026 and last autumn, the proportion who think the U.S. will have a positive impact on the world has fallen.
- On average across 30 countries, a greater proportion think China (50%) will have a positive impact on the world than the U.S. (39%) over the next decade.
- Only one out of the 31 countries supports participation in the war on Iran, and it’s not the U.S.
- 81% on average across 31 countries think their country should avoid getting involved in the current conflict in the Middle East.
- 71% of Americans think their country should not be involved in the Iran war and this rises to 79% for those aged 18-34 in the U.S. Israel is the only country where people are more in favour of being involved than not (58% to 43%).
- 33% think the war will last until 2027 or beyond. 31% think it will end by the end of this year, 26% within three months and 10% within the next month.

The United States has suffered its sharpest reputational decline in Malaysia since the onset of the Palestine crisis, according to a new Ipsos survey tracking global attitudes toward the US-Iran conflict.

In the poll conducted between March 20 and April 3 this year, Malaysia recorded a 16-percentage-point drop in positive views of the United States, the steepest fall among the Southeast Asian nations surveyed.

Only 34 per cent of Malaysians now view the US as having an overall positive influence on world affairs over the next decade.

An elderly man offered a Nuuk taxi driver large sums of money to sign what looked like a petition to make Greenland part of the United States.

An irritated but professionally polite Danny Brandt replied 'no thanks' to the offer, handed the papers back to the man and said:

“I will never be part of the United States, neither under Donald Trump nor any other American president.”

The man replied:

“Just wait and see. You'll remember my name, Cliff. In January, your wife, your children, your parents - all of you Greenlanders - will each receive $200,000.”

Palantir, a US company cofounder by Peter Thiel, develops software for companies and government agencies to analyse vast amounts of data.
Earlier this month, Palantir published a manifesto on X, arguing the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others.

“Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” Palantir wrote in the post.

The public pronouncement, along with concern over the use of Palantir software by ICE immigration enforcement in the United States and the Israeli military, has led to calls in Australia and the UK for governments to cease using Palantir in their operations.

A U.S. trade court dealt another blow to President Donald Trump's tariff strategy, ruling that his latest 10% temporary global duties are unjustified under a 1970s trade law, but blocked the levies only for two private importers and the State of Washington.

The U.S. Court of International Trade's 2-1 decision ​leaves the temporary tariffs in place for all other importers while any appeal by the Trump administration plays out. They are expected to expire in July.

Keep it up folks! “Consume Canadian” is catching on around the world!

From the article:

Airbus Canada has signed a deal to supply AirAsia with a massive order of 150 of its Canadian-made A220 jets in a multibillion-dollar coup for Quebec's aviation industry.

The agreement with the low-cost Malaysian airline marks the largest single firm order for the narrow-body planes — assembled north of Montreal in Mirabel — in the manufacturer's history.