They're indicting Raul Castro for the shoot down of the planes in the 90s. The press conference is a bit repetitive, you'd think Castro killed hundreds or something in a bombing.

Kill hundreds of civilians by shooting down their plane and you get a medal from the US.

Also, finish your current course before starting your next.

(Can't remember which strategic genius that sage advice ultimately comes from; Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, or my mum)

Well, apparently/ according to the NYT*, the US/ Israeli plan was to have Mahmoud Ahmedinajad become the new (old) Iranian leader.

Under normal circumstances you'd have to laugh at the idea of one of Iran's most hardline leaders- and supposedly linked to the revolutionary Hostage Crisis/ storming of the US embassy, pro nuclear program, stridently anti west etc etc- being advanced as a proxy by the US, and laugh at the idea of him deciding it was a bad idea only after the plan to free him from house arrest resulted in him getting injured (killed in early reports). Completely absurd, and would make you question the nature of reality- or be convinced it was a clumsy and obvious psy op to get Ahmedinajad hanged- 2 years ago.

Given it's Donald 'concept of a plan' Trump though it has to be given at least some consideration for being accurate.

*doesn't seem to be a gift article link, but isn't paywalled for me.

Interesting tech news... a copy of googles cloud software running in Europe. European location, German staff. No access for Google or its subsidiaries.

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/news-centre/press-releases/thales-announces-strategic-partnership-google-cloud-launch-new-sovereign

Edit: tl;dr; a European version of Google cloud that US authorities have no access to.