By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court subjected the world’s largest cruise ship companies to a stiff headwind on Thursday, reviving a claim that alleged they trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government when they docked their ships in Havana.

The court’s decision is a loss for Royal Caribbean Cruises, Carnival Corporation and other companies and lands at a moment when the Trump administration is ramping up economic and political pressure on Cuba.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion for an 8-1 court. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan was the sole dissenter.

The decision comes a day after the Department of Justice indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro on charges that stem from his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft that killed four people, including three Americans. While announcing the charges, Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche said President Donald Trump would soon make an announcement on the Cuban embargo.

Trump has also flirted with military action in Cuba, telling reporters on March 17 he might have the “honor of taking Cuba.”

The case was tied to property confiscated in 1960 shortly after Castro came to power in the island nation’s revolution and involved a law Congress passed in 1996 allowing US nationals to sue over that seized property in US courts.

Havana Docks Corporation built Havana’s piers in 1905 for the Cuban government on the condition that it would operate the port for 99 years. Castro’s government seized the docks shortly after coming to power.

The world’s largest cruise lines, the company said, “nonetheless moored their massive ships at the confiscated docks without Havana Docks’ authorization” from 2015 to 2019. In its appeal, the company described the case as the most important involving US foreign policy toward Cuba to reach the Supreme Court in decades.

“Havana Docks has shown that the cruise lines used confiscated property in which Havana Docks had a property interest and to which it owns a claim,” Thomas wrote for the majority.

The decision Thursday does not decide the case but rather allows the Havana Docks litigation to proceed.

Kagan argued that the court fundamentally misread the case.

“The docks belonged to the Cuban Government– not Havana Docks – all along,” she wrote in dissent. “What Havana Docks owned was only a property interest allowing it to use those docks for a specified time. And that time-limited interest expired in 2004 – more than a decade before the cruise lines ever used the docks.”

During the end of President Barack Obama’s tenure and much of the first Trump administration, the company said, “the cruise lines disembarked nearly one million tourists on those docks, and paid Cuba’s cash-strapped Communist regime at least $130 million in hard currency without paying a penny to either Havana Docks or any Cuban person or entity unaffiliated with the regime.”

In the cruise ship case, the question was whether the company could collect damages even though its lease on the docks would have expired in 2004 without the Castro takeover.

Por Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español

El Gobierno de Rusia dijo este jueves que mantiene contactos con Cuba en todos los temas que interesan a ambas naciones, una declaración que se da un día después de que Estados Unidos acusó formalmente al expresidente cubano Raúl Castro por la muerte de cuatro personas en un derribo de aviones ocurrido en 1996.

“Mantenemos contacto con Cuba en todos los asuntos de interés para nuestros dos países”, señaló la portavoz de la Cancillería de Rusia, María Zarájova, en una rueda de prensa donde, de acuerdo con la agencia Reuters, se le preguntó si Cuba había solicitado ayuda militar a su país.

CNN contactó al Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos para pedir comentarios sobre estas declaraciones.

A lo largo del año, Rusia ha sido uno de los países que han mantenido su ayuda a Cuba en medio de las crecientes presiones de Estados Unidos hacia la isla. Además del embargo económico vigente desde la década de 1960, estas medidas incluyen sanciones y acciones para frenar el abasto de petróleo a Cuba.

En febrero, la Cancillería de Rusia dijo que el país estaba “en solidaridad” con Cuba y mantendría “la asistencia material”.

Un mes después, esa ayuda se materializó con la llegada a Cuba de un buque ruso con 100.000 toneladas de petróleo, equivalentes a unos 700.000 barriles de combustible.

Este envío de crudo sirvió para aminorar la crisis energética por la que atraviesa la isla —que en enero perdió al que era su principal proveedor de hidrocarburos, Venezuela, luego de la captura del derrocado presidente Nicolás Maduro en un operativo militar de Estados Unidos— y fue aplaudido por el Gobierno de Miguel Díaz-Canel.

“Gracias Rusia. Gracias Presidente Putin. Gracias tripulantes del tanquero Anatoly Kolodkin que al atracar en puerto cubano con su valiosa carga de combustible, nos traen la certeza de una amistad probada en los más duros momentos, como tantas veces a lo largo de la historia. Seguiremos defendiendo el derecho soberano de Cuba a importar combustibles, sin ningún tipo de injerencia ni presiones”, dijo entonces el presidente cubano en una publicación en X.

Ahora, Cuba enfrenta un aumento de las presiones por parte de Estados Unidos, con la presentación de cargos formales el miércoles contra el expresidente Raúl Castro por el derribo de aviones de la organización de exiliados cubano-estadounidenses Hermanos al Rescate.

El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos acusa a Castro de conspiración para matar a ciudadanos estadounidenses, asesinato y destrucción de aeronaves. El exmandatario, que hoy tiene 94 años, era ministro de Defensa de Cuba cuando ocurrieron los hechos reclamados por Estados Unidos.

Cuba, por su parte, desde el mismo miércoles rechazó la acusación de Estados Unidos, descalificada tanto por Díaz-Canel como por el canciller Bruno Rodríguez. Para ambos funcionarios, el anuncio del Departamento de Justicia es una acción sin sustento jurídico, motivada políticamente para justificar una eventual “agresión militar” estadounidense contra territorio cubano.

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By Christiane Amanpour, Ben Church, Alicia Lloyd, CNN

(CNN) — It’s undeniable that Rafael Nadal enjoyed one of the greatest tennis careers in the history of the sport. A total of 22 grand slams, including a record 14 French Open titles and 209 weeks as world No. 1, all while playing in arguably the most competitive era of men’s tennis.

But while his achievements have been well documented, what is lesser known is how close it came to never happening at all, and how an injury sustained at the start of his career almost derailed everything he had worked towards.

Rewind to 2005 and Nadal was starting to make a name for himself. The young Spaniard claimed his first grand slam title at Roland Garros and finished that season as the world No. 2.

But while many in the tennis world were projecting his future success after a breakthrough year on the tour, Nadal was left facing the real possibility of never playing again.

At the latter end of 2005, Nadal felt a crunch in his foot during a match. After tests, he was later diagnosed with Mueller–Weiss syndrome, a rare degenerative condition that affects bones in the foot.

It led to a period when it was unclear whether the 19-year-old phenom could continue his dream of becoming a professional tennis player, let alone become one of the greatest to ever do it.

“Probably that was the toughest part in my tennis career,” Nadal said in an extensive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in Madrid. “Because that was just the beginning.

“In some ways, you are projecting your future of being a professional tennis player, thinking that you’re gonna have at least seven, eight, 10 years of being on the professional tour, that’s why you have been practicing almost all your life.

“And then in one second, it looks like maybe you will not be able to keep doing what you are doing.”

Nadal reflects extensively on that difficult time in a new four-part docuseries on Netflix, which provides previously unseen insight into the struggles behind his extraordinary success and famous grit.

Injuries and Nadal’s ability to recover from them is one of the prevailing narratives in the documentary, starting with that major setback at the start of his career.

“At 19 years old, you feel everything in a different way. You are very young,” he added. “But I was very lucky to have very good people next to me.

“Of course, I always held the hope that things were gonna move forward and I would be able to keep playing, but the news for a couple of months hadn’t been positive.”

Mental health challenges

Ultimately, though, Nadal and his medical team found a solution that worked, a new cutting-edge insole that moved his foot almost 0.276 inches (7 mm) inside his sneaker. Nike then went away and created a new shoe, custom-designed just for his foot.

While it was a solution that worked, it certainly wasn’t the end of his injury problems. The foot issue resurfaced multiple times, notably in the seasons leading up to his retirement in 2024.

There were also several wrist and knee problems which contributed to the Spaniard missing a total of 18 grand slams during his career – a number which makes his 22 major titles look even more impressive.

But while there was undoubted success through adversity – he fought through pain and found solutions to remain competitive – Nadal wasn’t as bulletproof as he seemed from the outside.

In his interview with CNN, the 39-year-old spoke about how he struggled with the mental pressure and anxiety of battling injuries and playing e

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Por Alex Leeds Matthews, Henrik Pettersson y Gillian Roberts, CNN

La Organización Mundial de la Salud declaró esta semana que el más reciente brote de ébola en África Central constituye una emergencia de salud pública. Las autoridades sanitarias están trabajando contrarreloj para rastrear contactos mientras aumenta el número de casos sospechosos.

CNN está siguiendo las ubicaciones de los casos confirmados en el brote, así como los casos y muertes a nivel histórico. Esta página será actualizada a medida que haya más detalles disponibles.

Aunque el riesgo global sigue siendo bajo, la OMS ha calificado el brote como un asunto de “preocupación internacional”. Estados Unidos ha impuesto restricciones de entrada para ciertos viajeros procedentes de la República Democrática del Congo, Uganda y Sudán del Sur.

Un brote ocurrido hace una década fue el más grande y devastador en la historia de la enfermedad. La OMS ha advertido que el brote actual podría encaminarse a ser uno de los más grandes, debido al ritmo de propagación y al aumento de las muertes.

Brotes anteriores se han extendido por varios continentes, aunque la mayoría de los casos se han concentrado en África Occidental y Central.

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