The Costa Rican embassy is pictured in Havana, Cuba, on March 18, 2026. YAMIL LAGE /AFP via Getty Images

Costa Rica on Wednesday closed its embassy in Havana and told Cuba's communist government to pull its diplomats from San José.

"We have to clean out communists from the hemisphere," Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared after the diplomatic rupture.

The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. responded to the closure by alleging in a social media post that Costa Rica made the move "under pressure from the United States."

Costa Rica's leadership is allied with President Trump, who has recently suggested he may "take" Cuba. The island nation's communist government has faced months of intense U.S. pressure and has languished under severe energy shortages. The country faced island-wide power blackouts this week, and protests were reported last week.

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A Ukrainian drone technology startup saw the most explosive U.S. stock market debut in the last year during its first day trading on Nasdaq. Shares in Swarmer, whose software enables single pilots to control hundreds of drones at once, soared over 700% before closing at $31 on Tuesday.

The company, based in Austin, Texas, but founded in Ukraine, has been used widely by the Ukrainian military since 2024. Erik Prince, the founder of the U.S. private military contractor Blackwater, joined Swarmer as non-executive chairman last month.

Experts say Swarmer is likely to be the first of many: a Ukrainian defense startup with an American face that leans on U.S. capital to scale production for both the Ukrainian and American militaries.

Ukrainian startups and American investors make a natural pairing. Four years of wartime innovation has made Ukraine a world leader in mass-producing cheap first-person-view...More

The unprecedented decision from the Confederation of African Football overturns this winter's title


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The Senegalese football federation (FSF) has announced it will appeal the decision to strip the country of the Africa Cup of Nations title. The FSF described the unprecedented decision by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as a "travesty", one which they intend to address at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

On Tuesday evening CAF awarded the title to Morocco as a 3-0 win, its appeal board concluding that Senegal had "forfeited the final" by walking off the field in the late stages of January's final. The Lions of Teranga would go on to win their second Africa Cup of Nations title in extra time, a crown they would hold for nearly two months before CAF reached its final sanctioning decision.

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Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 45 days, and with the latest update in the case being of little use to authorities, one expert tells CBS News the extended timeline means it "becomes much harder to keep the investigation going."

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that additional images were obtained in the last couple of weeks from surveillance cameras installed at Guthrie's Tucson home, where she is believed to have been abducted from in the middle of the night on Feb. 1.

The images, taken from a camera fastened to a fence and focused on the back of the house and another that showed the driveway and front of the garage door, captured family members, landscapers and pool workers stretching back weeks prior to the kidnapping. Nothing was deemed suspicious, and no images reviewed showed the suspect...More

Notorious Latin American narco trafficker Sebastian Marset, who eluded police for years, was handed over to U.S. authorities after his arrest Friday in Bolivia. DEA

Alleged Latin American narco trafficker Sebastian Marset made his first appearance in a U.S. court on Monday after being handed over to American authorities.

Marset, who eluded police for years, was captured in Bolivia last week and transferred to U.S. custody. The 34-year-old Uruguayan national faces money laundering conspiracy charges connected with his alleged cocaine trafficking organization.

Marset is the most notorious drug baron in the southern part of South America and had a $2 million U.S. bounty on his head for alleged money laundering. An indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia alleges Marset "leads a large-scale drug trafficking...More

Roughly half of Americans fall short of the annual income needed to cover their basic needs, according to new research.

A U.S. family with children needs about $145,000 in income to be considered economically secure, according to a March 16 report from the Urban Institute. About 49% of Americans live below that financial threshold, the nonpartisan think tank found.

In 2024 (the latest available data), the median household income for married couples in the U.S. was $128,700, U.S. Census data shows.

Ingredients for economic security
According to Urban's analysis, economic security today includes having enough money to pay for:

o Adequate food
o Clothing
o Housing
o Health care
o Child care
o Transportation
o Postsecondary education
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This photograph taken on March 17, 2026 shows an archeological dig site revealing gallic (Gaulois) burial sites in central Dijon, central-eastern France. Frédéric BOURIGAULT /AFP via Getty Images

Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange new attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out the top of a circular pit.

It is just the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated position while facing west.

Scientists are trying to work out why the ancient and little-understood Gaul people chose to bury some of its dead in this unusual manner -- and whether the men were still alive at the time.

The latest skeleton, which is remarkably well-preserved, was found next to the Josephine Baker primary school in the heart of...More

President Trump hasn't made up his mind yet on whether he wants to send American forces into Iran and seize the country's nuclear material, which would be a very dangerous operation, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

In private conversations, he has told people close to him: "I have a lot of decisions to make."

The Pentagon has prepared multiple options for the president as potential next steps in the Iran war.

After the U.S. military strikes on three nuclear sites last summer, the International Atomic Energy Agency, a nuclear watchdog, said it could not account for an estimated 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium Iran had before the strikes.

Mr. Trump believes Iran's military assets are dramatically degraded — with their navy and air force essentially gone — but he is concerned about Iran's capability to plant mines,...More