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Thar she blows! On the Thames
PETER FROST goes a hunting for the whale, in Canary Wharf
Rescuers battle to save a 15ft northern bottle-nosed whale in the Thames in 2006
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 27-foot-long humpback whale that died in the Thames earlier this month brings the total number of whales seen in the river to well over 50 in just the last 10 years. The young whale died from injuries from being hit by a ship before she reached the river.
The survival of “Benny” the Arctic beluga whale, which made the Thames estuary its home from July to Christmas last year was one of the most unusual whale sighting in London’s river.
As well as whales well over 2,000 seals and some 450 porpoises and dolphins have been sighted in the river Thames in the last decade. It is not unusual to see seals basking on jetties or even the decks off small moored boats in the middle of London.
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