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The cruise ship Diamond Princess has been in the headlines. PETER FROST takes a closer look at the whole holiday cruise-ship business
The Diamond Princess
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE Diamond Princess cruise liner has been in the headlines lately, after some passengers and crew were suspected of having the coronavirus, Covid-19.
Ironically, many of the news reports will have been interspersed with idyllic adverts for luxurious cruising holidays.
The Diamond Princess’s 3,711 passengers and crew were quarantined by the Japanese authorities. Passengers with confirmed cases were taken ashore for treatment. Two have died, but most have now returned to their home countries.
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