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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.
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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