Asia mar­kets in Hong Kong and Japan re­act af­ter the U.S. and Is­rael’s at­tacks on Iran Oil prices are leap­ing Mon­day with wor­ries that the Iran war will clog the glob­al flow of crude and make in­fla­tion even worse. U.S. stocks, mean­while, are swing­ing be­tween sharp loss­es and a tiny gain.

Cuban Pres­i­dent Miguel Díaz-Canel said Mon­day that his gov­ern­ment should “im­me­di­ate­ly” fo­cus on im­ple­ment­ing ur­gent trans­for­ma­tions to the is­land’s eco­nom­ic and so­cial mod­el as oil re­serves in the Caribbean coun­try dwin­dle.

The fam­i­ly of Diego Mar­tin man Ak­ili Charles will re­ceive just over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion fol­low­ing a land­mark le­gal chal­lenge that al­lowed bail to be con­sid­ered for mur­der charges.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a yel­low-lev­el haz­ardous seas alert for the north­ern and east­ern ex­posed coast­lines, in­clud­ing off­shore ar­eas, from 4 pm to­day (Mon­day) un­til 6 pm on Thurs­day 5 March 2026.