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Photos from Cuba as US speedboat shooting heightens tensions

By The Associated Press

HAVANA (AP) — A view of daily life in Cuba as Havana says the 10 passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the U.S. who were trying to infiltrate the island.

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Soldiers on the streets. What’s behind South Africa’s plan to deploy the army in high-crime areas

By The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy: South Africa's president announced that he will deploy the army to high-crime areas to fight the scourge of gang violence and illegal mining. Soldiers were seen on the streets in Johannesburg, the country's largest city, on Wednesday in the first major deployment, after President Cyril Ramaphosa said last month that he would use the army against what he described as organized crime and the “most immediate threat” to South Africa’s democracy and economic development. The deployment in places with some of the world’s highest rates of violent crime is set to happen in five of the country’s nine provinces and could last up to a year in some cases, police said. Critics say the army deployment could be seen as an admission that Ramaphosa's government is losing the battle.
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