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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Celia Hatton, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 21st of May, these are our main stories.
The U.S. charges Cuba's former president, Raúl Castro,
with murder over the downing of two planes in 1996. Elon Musk's rocket
and satellite company is set to make the first-ever trillion-dollar debut on a U.S. stock market.
Our tech correspondent in San Francisco tells us why SpaceX is so valuable.
Also in this podcast, we'll hear from this year's winners of the International Booker Prize.
And we'll take you to the Caribbean.
A legal battle is being fought over those beaches.
We'll tell you the story.
We begin with Cuba.
For months, the United States has been intensifying its pressure on the island,
imposing a fuel blockade that's triggered sustained power outages.
Cuba's economy was struggling before the embargo, and now it's close to collapse.