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Pity the poor old pangolin
The pangolin, a scaly, anteater-like mammal, has been portrayed as a suspect in the spread of the coronavirus. PETER FROST makes the case for the defence
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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
DOES anyone really know the origin of the coronavirus? President Trump would have us believe it was made in a Chinese laboratory.
More serious commentators believe that it started among the curious — and mostly illegal — wild animals offered for sale in the Huanan market in Wuhan. We know the virus lives in several species of bat in a single cave in southern China.
The bats themselves cannot pass the virus to humans. For that it needs an intermediate species, probably a mammal.
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