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Iran Restores Some Internet Access Amidst Crackdown, While Mexico Cancels Oil Shipment to Cuba
Iran began restoring some internet access to its citizens nearly three weeks after a near-total shutdown, while Mexico confirmed the cancellation of an oil shipment to Cuba. The limited internet access in Iran comes after the country cut off access on January 8, a move widely viewed as an attempt to suppress information about a government crackdown on protesters, according to BBC Technology. Meanwhile, Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, confirmed the cancellation of an oil shipment to Cuba, insisting the decision was a sovereign one and not due to pressure from the United States, The Guardian reported.
Independent analysis suggests that much of Iran remains cut off from the outside world, despite the partial restoration. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that the initial internet blockage was a response to what he described as "terrorist operations," according to BBC Technology. The shutdown affected Iran's 92 million citizens.
In other news, TikTok US denied claims that it is censoring content on its platform after users reported glitches. A spokesperson for TikTok US told the BBC that technical issues were the reason for the problems since it became a separate American entity last week. "We've made significant progress in recovering our US infrastructure with our US data center partner," the spokesperson said. "However, the US user experience may still have some technical issues, including when posting new content."
Meanwhile, fuel shortages are causing increasingly severe blackouts in Cuba, and Mexico has been the island's biggest oil supplier since the US blocked shipments, according to The Guardian.
In the United States, a five-year-old U.S. citizen named Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos was deported to Honduras alongside her mother on January 11, The Guardian reported. Génesis had never known Honduras. Her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, whose visa application was pending, said she would send her daughter back to the U.S. soon accompanied by another relative. "The day I separate from my daughter will be the most painful of my life," she said, according to The Guardian.
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