Cuba expects blackouts this Friday that will leave up to 66% of the country without power at the same time.

Official data indicates that Cuba is facing a day of extensive electrical blackouts, with projections showing that up to 66 percent of the island will be left without power simultaneously. The outages are expected to peak during the high-demand evening hours.

Separately, in the United Kingdom, Nigel Farage comfortably won a self-called parliamentary by-election. The contest was boycotted by all other major British parties, leaving his primary theoretical rival as a waste container, thus securing his continued tenure in Parliament.