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Canada denies role in detention, torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee

North Shore News 20 Mar 2023
Slahi filed a lawsuit last year over Canada's alleged role in his detention at the U.S. offshore military prison in Cuba, where he says he suffered beatings, sleep deprivation and sexual assault ... The Canadian Press. .
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CSIS, RCMP interviewed Mauritanian man at Guantanamo, feds say in denying wrongdoing

North Shore News 20 Mar 2023
OTTAWA — The federal government acknowledges in a new court filing that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP interviewed a Mauritanian man at a Guantanamo Bay prison in 2003 ... offshore military prison in Cuba for 14 years ... Slahi denies ever meeting Ressam ... "In the aftermath of Sept ... Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press. .
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Ray McGovern: The Last Chance to Avoid World War III?

Scheerpost 24 Feb 2023
You know, if your line goes down in a storm, an electric truck, a line truck to come in with a missile sticking a little different disk into the computer, and you’ve got the offensive capability that JFK wouldn’t allow to happen just miles offshore, 90 miles offshore in Cuba.
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The nation in brief: Mushroom farm worker pleads innocent

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 18 Feb 2023
Mushroom farm worker pleads innocent ... Coast Guard halts migrant boat off Cuba ... Coast Guard crews stopped a migrant boat carrying more than 300 people from Haiti offshore of Cuba, the agency said. Petty Officer Nicole Groll, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, said the boat was stopped Wednesday off Punta de Maisi, a town off the eastern tip of Cuba ... .
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Coast Guard stops boat carrying more than 300 Haitians off Cuba

Colorado Springs Gazette 17 Feb 2023
MIAMIU.S. Coast Guard crews stopped a migrant boat carrying more than 300 people from Haiti offshore of Cuba, the agency said in a statement ....
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No fuel? No problem: Tourists in Cuba brave worsening shortages

FX Empire 17 Feb 2023
“We’ve gone three days now, and (the service stations) have had nothing,” Babeo said over breakfast, binoculars and bird book near at hand, at a private home-stay on Cuba’s serene Bay of Pigs ... Large, state-owned hotels in Havana and on sandy keys offshore account for much of Cuba’s tourism revenue, official statistics show.
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Confronting America’s Forever Prison

Antiwar 12 Dec 2022
naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and what it felt like to be distinctly offshore of American justice ...Once upon a time, our offshore prison at Guantánamo was the sort of place where even an American National Guardsman, only ... naval base on the island of Cuba early in 2002.
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The nation in brief : Agents stop migrant-smuggling boat

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 11 Dec 2022
Border Patrol agents stopped a boat just offshore of Palm Beach, Fla., that they say was smuggling migrants from three different countries ... The stop comes as South Florida is dealing with the largest influx of migrants -- mostly from Cuba and Haiti -- in almost a decade ... Coast Guard crews offshore of the island chain.
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'A legacy of torture': Will the United States finally close its forever prison at Guantánamo?

Alternet 08 Dec 2022
naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and what it felt like to be distinctly offshore of American justice ... 'Once upon a time, our offshore prison at Guantánamo was the sort of place where even an American National Guardsman, only pretending to be a recalcitrant prisoner ‘extracted’ from a cell for training purposes, could be beaten almost senseless.
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Dire Straits–How a China Taiwan Takeover Could Look Like the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Epoch Times 23 Nov 2022
Similar Geopolitical Factors Let’s consider the geographic similarities between Cuba and Taiwan. Cuba sits 90 miles offshore from the United States, a global superpower ... ....
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Kuwait holds second election in two years amid gridlock

Caledonian Record 29 Sep 2022
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Voters in Kuwait returned to the polls on Thursday for the second parliamentary elections in less than two years, hoping to move the wealthy Gulf Arab nation out of a prolonged period of political gridlock ... +3. New report. Oil spills from offshore transportation way down ... Hurricane Ian strikes Cuba, Florida braces for winds, floods.
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Live Updates: Hurricane calls overwhelm rescue officials

Caledonian Record 29 Sep 2022
The Latest on Hurricane Ian.. TALLAHASSEE, Fla.The U.S. Coast Guard began performing hurricane rescue missions on barrier islands off southwest Florida early Thursday, as soon as the winds died down, Florida Gov ... KEY DEVELOPMENTS. ... landfall ... Oil spills from offshore transportation way down ... Hurricane Ian strikes Cuba, Florida braces for winds, floods.
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Hurricane Ian nears Florida coast, threatening floods, winds

The Call 28 Sep 2022
Fueled by warm offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Ian was gaining strength after plowing over western Cuba's prized tobacco-growing region as a Category 3 storm on Tuesday.
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Hurricane Ian Nears the Florida Coast, Threatening Floods

Time 28 Sep 2022
Fueled by warm offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Ian was gaining strength after plowing over western Cuba’s prized tobacco-growing region as a Category 3 storm on Tuesday ... Before turning toward Florida, Ian made landfall early Tuesday in Cuba’s Pinar del Rio ...
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The cost of climate complacency and Ontario inquest: In The News for Sept. 28, 2022

North Shore News 28 Sep 2022
Fueled by warm offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Ian was gaining strength after plowing over western Cuba's prized tobacco-growing region as a Category 3 storm on Tuesday.

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