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CANADA insists it will not follow the US in recalling its diplomats from Cuba over increasingly bizarre claims of mysterious sonic or virus warfare.
An anonymous government official told reporters yesterday that eight people connected to the Canadian embassy in Havana had reported symptoms including nausea, dizziness, headaches and nosebleeds last year.
He said they had required treatment but were not taken to hospital and that there was no call to close the embassy.
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON