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Cuba slams new US "virus" claims

CUBA hit back at increasingly far-fetched US claims of attacks on its diplomatic staff on Tuesday.

Cuban Foreign Ministry US division director Josefina Vidal called renewed allegations at a meeting of the US Senate foreign relations committee “political manipulation.”

“The biggest victim of today’s hearing was the truth,” she said.

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