The Tuesday letters page is surprised to find how big Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss is, as one reader is doubtful as to whether Screamer will be a hit.

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May contain annoyances
So I bought Crimson Desert on Saturday, after reading several reviews and watching some YouTube videos of the game with the intention of getting a refund if I didn’t get on with it. The funny thing is it wasn’t even on my radar really until everything blew up, but it really got me curious as to how some reviews were really high on it and some very average.

Long story short, I didn’t refund it and I’m several hours in now and I’m hooked. It’s just such a fascinating game to play, I’m finding the flaws almost endearing and even though the controls certainly are a choice you do get used to them. It’s not what I thought it would be at all either, it’s closer to a sandbox fantasy simulation with so many interconnected systems and depth.

It feels like every suggestion for a minigame or feature was evaluated by asking the question, ‘Will this be fun for someone?’ and if the answer was yes it went in and that feels quite refreshing, especially since it seems like you can ignore those quite happily if you don’t want to bother with them.

I will say, however, that this is almost certainly the most Marmite game I’ve ever played. It will either draw you in or you’ll bounce off it, I think. So I can totally see why there isn’t as much of a consensus on this as something like The Witcher 3.

It reminds me in some ways of Destiny, when that first came out. There was something so compelling about that game, that just hit the spot for those of us who really got into it and this feels exactly the same to me. So, I don’t think the people who are saying it’s good and enjoying it are kidding themselves.

Hopefully over time the annoyances and the issues will be ironed out, as the dev team do seem to be responding quickly to the community. But even if those issues remain, I’m still enjoying my time with the game, warts and all.
Carl

Money to burn
I love how all this stuff coming out about the developers of Crimson Desert just spamming the game with random features and parts of other games, is exactly how the reviews described it and imagined it must’ve been made. What I wonder is how the game ever got founded, because I definitely would not be giving a bunch of people who have only ever made one MMO before the cash to make a… whatever Crimson Desert is supposed to be.

It’s funny how often the biggest disasters in gaming can be seen from a mile away but I guess as long as the right people are making money from it all the madness is left to continue.
Sagat

GC: Pearl Abyss is actually a really big company, with over a thousand employees; they also own EVE Online maker CCP. Black Desert Online is very popular in Asia.

Resist temptation
The fact that Rockstar Games is paying some people less than minimum wage is beyond disgusting. I don’t care if they’re the cleaners, this is the company that makes the biggest entertainment product in human history and they have to have their knuckles rapped by the government in order for its employees to earn a living wage.

I’m extra shocked that this is happening in the UK, although I guess the US government would never have cared and we wouldn’t have found out. But c’mon Rockstar, try and do better. It’s not that hard not to be evil.
Bootles

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Exception to the rule
I appreciate the review of Screamer, which I had never heard of until now (including the old 90s game). It sounds great: inventive and unique, which is why I’m sure it won’t sell at all and then everyone will complain why are there no arcade racers? Or whatever your favourite rare genre happens to be.

People have to vote with their wallets to get anything noticed and yet we constantly see great games do badly and then there’s no follow-up, from either that developer or another. I’m still shocked that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was a hit because it seemed to have everything going against.

Sure it was good, but if that was all you needed for something to be a hit the world would be a very different place.
Hordak

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Still in the game
I have to hand it to Microsoft, they are trying to carry on as if everything is normal. That Partner Showcase thing sounds like it’ll be a bit of a dud but they’re doing it anyway, as if everything was normal and the Xbox was still a viable format.

I’m very interested to see what they’re going to be like when they unveil the next gen console. Probably very arrogant and trying to pretend they’re king of the world, but I can’t pretend I’m not interested in seeing what they put out. It’s obvious they haven’t given up yet.
Holstis

Remasters and remakes
I have to admit I am very impressed with what I have seen with Resident Evil Requiem. Although I did not buy this game I did watch a 100% walkthrough and I can assure everyone this game absolutely delivers. From an honest perspective I am an original Resident Evil 2 fan and that was the game that got me into Resident Evil, alongside Resident Evil 1.

Also, with new DLC coming for Requiem we have been spoiled savage by Capcom and hope that we will see them consider continuing with new DLC in the foreseeable future, as the game has already sold 6 million copies. I’d love to see them do DLC adding more characters with unique campaigns, such as past Resident Evil characters making a return, like Alyssa has.

Also, I think now that in 2026 it is time Capcom considered making future Resident Evil games more open world, with PlayStation 6 and Next Gen Xbox coming.

Finally, there is one point I’d like to bring to everyone’s attention. Someone has done an AI 4K HDR10 overhaul of the original Resident Evil game with up-to-date graphic enhancements and it looks and plays glorious, here’s the video.

If this can be done with an AI overhaul surely Capcom could do this with Resident Evil’s Directors Cut, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis in a remastered HD Collector’s Edition that would be sweet and nice for fans.
gaz be rotten (gamertag)

Loveable Evil
Kudos to the people that organised that Resident Evil fan film. I can’t believe the amount of effort it must have taken to organise, on top of all the normal problems of making a film. I’d love to know how much convincing the actors took. They apparently couldn’t get Jill Valentine but I’m amazed any of the others wanted to remind people of their roles, so kudos to them.

Despite all the gore and horror, Resi really is such a loveable series. It’s so dumb and honest and fun. I agree that it should never be taken seriously because that completely robs it of half its appeal. The skill from Capcom is in riding that line between cheesiness and real scares.
Necktie

Never again
Crimson Desert is indeed many things: ambitious, overstuffed, bloated, disappointing, and a generic single-player title that I pre-ordered and in less than 24 hours traded in immediately to CeX. Because it is, from what I’ve played and the many reviews, a very barebones title. Personally, I am very glad to be rid of it and just from seeing the awfully bland graphics, the awful controls, the lack of a narrative to grip you. It is indeed one of the most disappointing games of 2026.

It’s no surprise that Pearl Abyss’s stock has fallen, but my mistake is one to be learnt from. I ignored the countless red flags, the shady tactics by Pearl Abyss to implement a review embargo so very late and the lack of any explanation, as far as any hints to the narrative beats and overall themes of the world. It was only false window dressing, disguised as the next great open world feature.

Patches can only do so much to fix or even try to fix what is essentially a title that will be forgotten very soon, especially when we are less than a month away from the release of Saros and Pragmata. They seem infinitely more interesting, but I cannot stress this enough, I’ll be waiting for reviews for both releases.

I’m more confident about Saros, since it’s a continuation of the systems introduced in Returnal, but if my mistake has taught me anything. It’s that always trust your instincts. I only wish I hadn’t even gazed at Crimson Desert or given it a glance at all. That’s truly a regret I have to come to terms with.

As far as the reviews go, it sits at a 78 on Metacritic. In my opinion, it’s far too high of a score for such a wasteful opportunity. It deserves far much less. Even GC scoring it a 6 is far too kind. It’s more or less a 4 or a 3 out of 10. For utilising a beautiful world but lacking in many important factors.

May there never be a sequel to this debacle. On a final note, it would be absolutely phenomenal if GTA 6 was to release on the Nintendo Switch 2. But it is even possible? We’ll have to see and wait.
Shahzaib Sadiq

Inbox also-rans
Sympathies in advance to whatever penniless students end up having to walk around the Minecraft theme park wearing a bunch of cardboard boxes to look like the characters. I feel grateful my boy has never shown any interest in the game.
Scourge

Agree on adding more character moments to Resident Evil. The next game definitely has to have Leon and Ada putting on a dinner party for Chris and Jill and the rest. And then zombies attacking, obviously. (Or maybe Hunters? They were always my favourite and it feels like we haven’t seen them for years.)
Grossman

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Donald Trump has issued a five-day deadline, as he warned Iran it could be “annihilated” if it does not reach a peace deal with America.

The US president insisted that “very good and productive” discussions on ending the war were taking place — a claim which has since been labelled as “fake news” by the Iranian parliament speaker, who said there had been no talks.

Mr Trump has also announced a five-day pause on US military strikes on Iranian energy sites, just hours before a 48-hour ultimatum issued by Mr Trump to Tehran over opening the Strait of Hormuz was due to expire.

Speaking on Monday, the president said: “We were planning tomorrow on shooting down some of their power plants, we’re gonna hold that up, hopefully we won’t have to do it.

“At the end of this [five-day] period it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody. As good as if we went all the way and just literally annihilated the place, which if we don’t have to do that, that would be a good thing not a bad thing”.

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bager Galibaf, has rejected claims of talks with the US, saying: “No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped”.

Trump’s special envoy travels to Pakistan: report

Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, has travelled to Pakistan, The Times has reported.

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Pakistan has offered to host in-person talks between the US and Iran, but prominent Iranian officials have not signalled that they’d be there, according to The Times.

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Trump says Strait of Hormuz may be controlled by ‘me and the ayatollah’

US President Donald Trump has said the Strait of Hormuz will be controlled by “me and the ayatollah”.

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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump Monday, “What about the Strait of Hormuz? Who’s going to be in control of that?”

Trump said it would be “jointly controlled,” possibly by him.

“Maybe me. Me and the Ayatollah. Whoever the Ayatollah is, whoever the next Ayatollah is”, the president said.

After the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed early in the Iran war, his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, took over as the country’s leader.

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The Strait of Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of the world’s oil, has been effectively closed by Iran amid the war, and Trump has been trying to open it.

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WATCH: Iran denies Trump’s ‘desperate’ peace-talk claims

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Iranian energy infrastructure damaged in strikes: report

Iranian energy infrastructure has been damaged in airstrikes, the Associated Press reported, citing the Fars news agency.

Fars, a semiofficial Iranian news agency close to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, reported that natural gas infrastructure in Isfahan was hit, and a gas pipeline for the Khorramshahr power plant was targeted.

Rachel Dobkin24 March 2026 01:45

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Kuwait’s energy ministry says ‘air defense operations’ caused a ‘partial power outage’

Kuwait’s energy ministry has said “air defense operations” caused a “partial power outage”.

Seven overhead power lines were damaged by falling debris in several areas, the ministry said in a translated statement early Tuesday morning local time, adding, “Work is underway to restore power as quickly as possible”.

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Saudi Arabia shoots down nearly 30 drones in a few hours

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence announced that it shot down 28 drones in a few hours early Tuesday morning local time.

In a series of social media posts, the ministry announced the interception and destruction of dozens of drones in the eastern region.

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In pictures: Smoke rises from Beirut’s southern suburbs following an Israeli strike

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Israeli minister calls for annexation of southern Lebanon

An Israeli minister has called for the annexation of southern Lebanon after Israeli troops bombed bridges and destroyed homes in an escalating military assault.

The comments by the far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich were the most explicit yet by a senior Israeli official on seizing Lebanese territory in a fight Israel says targets Iran-backed Hezbollah militants.

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Lebanon was pulled into the regional war on March 2 when Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel.

Since then, Israel has ordered all residents to evacuate south of the Litani River as it pummels the area with air strikes, viewing it as a stronghold of Hezbollah, which has kept up rocket attacks on Israel.

Lebanese authorities say the Israeli air and ground assault has killed more than 1,000 people, and more than a million have been driven from their homes.

Reuters witnesses heard at least three blasts in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district late on Monday, as the Israeli military said it had attacked Hezbollah sites in the city.

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An earlier strike in Beirut on Monday killed a commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Israeli military said.

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Airstrikes on Iraq’s Shi’ite PMF site kill six including Anbar commander

Six people are now reported to have died in airstrikes in western Anbar.

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Airstrikes targeting a site belonging to Iraq’s Shi’ite Popular Mobilisation Forces in the western province of Anbar killed six fighters and wounded 15 others, including the PMF’s Anbar operations commander, security sources said.

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US claims to have hit nearly 10,000 targets since beginning of Iran war

America has struck more than 9,000 targets and damaged or destroyed more than 140 Iranian vessels since it launched strikes last month, the US Central Command said in an update.

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“CENTCOM forces are striking targets to dismantle the Iranian regime’s security apparatus, prioritising locations that pose an imminent threat,” it said.

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The Earth’s climate is in a “state of emergency”, according to the United Nations which has warned it is more out of balance than at any other time in observed history. 

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is the UN’s weather agency, predicted that rapid and large-scale changes to the global climate in recent decades would trigger harmful repercussions lasting centuries.

It comes as rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere drive global warming and melt ice.

The WMO’s annual “state of the global climate” report, released on Monday, also highlighted the impact in 2025 of intense heatwaves, heavy rainfall, wildfires, drought, tropical cyclones, storms, and flooding, including widespread death and vast economic losses.

It further demonstrated the cascading impacts that extreme weather events were having worldwide, including food insecurity and displacement, and health risks driven by shifting rainfall patterns, like mosquito-borne dengue disease and heat stress.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned the global climate is in a “state of emergency”.

“Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits,” he said. “Every key climate indicator is flashing red.”

The report confirmed that 2015 to 2025 represented the hottest 11 years on record, with data showing last year as the second or third hottest ever documented.

It also revealed that Earth is close to breaching the key warming threshold of 1.5C – beyond which increasingly severe and compounding climate impacts are triggered – with the figure recorded at 1.43C last year.

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Furthermore, the WMO found the accelerating amount of heat in the world’s oceans, which stores more than 91% of the excess heat in the Earth’s system, means the planet is moving to timescales of committed climate change for centuries.

Meanwhile, the planet’s energy imbalance – the rate at which energy from the sun enters and leaves the Earth – reached a new high in 2025.

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At the same time, heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have risen to their highest level in at least 800,000 years.

WMO secretary-general Celeste Saulo said: “Human activities are increasingly disrupting the natural equilibrium and we will live with these consequences for hundreds and thousands of years.

“On a day-to-day basis, our weather has become more extreme.”

The report also outlined how climate data, early warning systems, and integrated climate services for health can protect people as the temperature rises.

Fire crews cut off a door to allow emergency services to work

Fire crews had to cut off a car door to allow emergency services to work after a crash. Saffron Walden fire crews were called to a crash in Ickleton at about 8am on Monday (March 23).

At the scene, crews removed the driver’s door from one of the vehicles to allow paramedics access. Two patients were taken to hospital after the crash.

A spokesperson for Saffron Walden fire station said: “Shortly after 8am this morning, both of our fire engines were mobilised to a road traffic collision between Strethall and Elmdon. Using specialist equipment, we quickly removed the drivers [sic] door off one of the vehicles to give our colleagues in the ambulance service some more space to work.

“We, the crew, wish both drivers a speedy recovery. This incident serves as a reminder of the importance of wearing seat belts and taking extra care when navigating our country roads.”

An East of England Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 8.10am to a road traffic collision on Elmdon Road in Ickleton. Two ambulances were sent to the scene and two patients were transported to Addenbrooke’s Hospital for further treatment.”

Worshippers Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed when 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a Syrian-born British citizen, drove into the gates of the Heaton Park synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, in October last year, and then began attacking with a knife, wearing a fake suicide belt.

Transform your bedroom this spring

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Spring has officially arrived, bringing with it brighter and lengthier days. The changing of the seasons naturally encourages a fresh beginning, particularly if you’re contemplating revitalising your home.

DIY enthusiasts and professionals have identified spring as the perfect moment to refresh your property, whether through applying a new coat of paint, replacing heavy winter textiles with lighter alternatives, or undertaking a thorough spring clean. Girls Aloud’s Kimberley recently spoke with DailyExpress.co.uk at the unveiling of her latest paint partnership with Wickes, sharing insights on home improvements and DIY projects.

Your bedroom should serve as a peaceful retreat, with an ambience that helps you unwind before sleep. Yet, if you’re uncertain where to begin, DIY specialists from Wickes and Kimberley have revealed their favourite paint selections for revamping your bedroom this spring, reports the Express.

Lewis Janes, Head of Decorating & Storage at Wickes, believes spring offers the optimal opportunity to refresh your living space: “This time of year is perfect for bringing natural light into your interiors and making rooms feel more open. The right shades can lift the mood whilst enhancing the sense of space.”

Always add panelling

Kimberley noted that individuals typically understand which colours suit their bedroom environment, particularly those that promote restful sleep. To enhance a basic bedroom, she suggests incorporating panelling to introduce depth and texture to the room. She explained: “In my bedroom, I focus more on the panelling, and I made the feature that rather than a strong, bold colour. And that really works, it just elevates the space…”

She added: “There’s the new acoustic panelling I did in my son’s room. Those kinds of things can really bring the room to life, but still keep it quite earthly and tonal if you don’t want to go too wild with colour.”

Soft Honey from Kimberley Walsh by Wickes

Lewis highlighted Kimberley’s latest interior paint Soft Honey (2.5l, £13) as an excellent choice to help brighten any bedroom space. He characterised it as “a warm, uplifting yellow with honeyed undertones that reflects daylight beautifully, creating a cosy, welcoming, and effortlessly elegant space.”

During the paint’s development, Kimberley sought assistance from her son, Bobby, whose room now showcases the inviting yellow shade.

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Wheatgrass by Crown

Lewis noted that this gentle “clay hue” is ideal for those who prefer to maintain neutral walls. He characterised Wheatgrass (5l, £29) as “neutral yet inviting”.

Sage No.85 by Wickes

Green tones can help your home welcome the spring season, introducing a sense of freshness and vitality from outdoors. Lewis’ selection for spring is the Sage No.85 (2.5l, £13).

He characterised the paint colour as introducing a “gentle, timeless pastel green to the room”.

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Moonlight Bay by Crown

Moonlight Bay (2.5l, £20) is a subdued pastel blue, an ideal springtime refresh for bedrooms. Lewis noted that the Crown paint “introduces a softness ideal for creating a calm, restful space.”

Kimberley’s new interior paint shade, Soft Honey, and new garden paint, Pale Clover, are now available to purchase at Wickes. Browse the Kimberley Walsh by Wickes collection here.

It’s a brief set considering the cost of entry, with Brown on and off within an hour, but the sheer pace goes some way to making up for it, leaving barely room to breathe between world-class bangers. Tonight’s gig shows that Danny Brown hit his mid-40s, got sober, settled down, and somehow came back even wilder than before.

There were tearful scenes in the central American nation of Honduras on February 23, as locals said goodbye to the Cuban healthcare professionals who had been treating them for free for around two years. It came after the Honduran government abruptly ended the Cuban medical mission under pressure from the administration of the US president, Donald Trump.

That same day, a “sensitive” US State Department memo was sent to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio. It discussed the US strategy to sabotage Cuba’s medical internationalism, which has been an integral part of the island nation’s foreign policy since 1960. In recent years it has also become a key pillar of its economy.

The US has imposed unilateral sanctions on Cuba for more than 60 years. These prevent Cuba from engaging in “normal” international trade – for example, third parties cannot sell goods to Cuba if 10% of their components are from US companies or subsidiaries. And Cuba cannot export goods to the US. On top of that, the US blockade severely restricts Cuba’s access to the international financial system.

In this context, the export of medical professionals has become vital to the Cuban economy. For decades the Cuban government sent medical missions around the world as a donation to developing nations. But over the past two decades, it has developed cooperation agreements under which governments or local authorities pay the Cuban government for the medical services of its healthcare professionals.

Attacking that revenue looks to be a key component of the US push for regime change in Cuba by the end of the year. This is alongside the total oil blockade imposed by Trump’s executive order on January 29, which has now caused multiple national blackouts that have left the entire island in the dark.

It is a policy of carrots and sticks. Countries kicking out Cuban medics are offered US support for “infrastructure modernisation” – things like telemedicine and virtual training. A year earlier, Rubio had announced visa restrictions for current and former officials and their families from anywhere in the world who took part in Cuban programmes.

By mid-March this year, neighbouring governments fell into line. Guatemala, Paraguay, the Bahamas, Guyana and Jamaica terminated Cuban medical missions, ending decades of cooperation. In Guatemala, more than 400 Cuban healthcare professionals, most of them doctors, are serving indigenous communities under a three decades-long partnership. The last doctors will leave by the end of the year.

The US government’s attack on Cuban medical internationalism is not new. It began in 2006, the year after the oil-for-doctors programme between Cuba and Venezuela transformed the export of healthcare professionals into Cuba’s greatest revenue source.

US policy sought to eliminate this income and undermine the prestige the programmes earned the island. The then US president, George W Bush, set up the Cuban Medical Professional Parole (CMPP) Program, encouraging Cuban medics abroad to abandon missions and defect to the US. The programme was ended only in 2017, in Barack Obama’s final days as president.

Despite this, and reflecting the deficit in healthcare globally, Cuba’s earnings from the export of healthcare services rose. Revenues in 2018 (the first year Cuba published separate data for health services) were US$6.4 billion (£4.8 billion). Trump’s first administration developed policies, and funding, to sabotage these programmes.

Cuba’s bill of health

It also devised a new justification for doing this. The US government could not openly demand that countries sacrifice the health and wellbeing of their populations just to deny Cuba revenue. So instead, it accused Cuba of human trafficking and equated its healthcare professionals to slaves.

Anyone who has spoken to Cuban participants – as I have – knows the overseas service contracts they sign provide them with their regular Cuban salary, plus extra remuneration from the host country. They are guaranteed holidays and contact with families.

Even with tens of thousands of medical workers overseas, the state’s investment in healthcare and medical training means that the Cuban population has the highest ratio of doctors per person in the world. In 2022, it was said to have nine doctors and nine nurses for every 1,000 citizens. In the US, there are 2.6 doctors per 1,000 citizens and in the UK the figure is 3.2.

For many Cuban healthcare professionals, it signifies the fulfilment of an internationalist duty; for others a way to travel or increase their income. The Cuban government takes the lion’s share of revenues and puts them back into Cuba’s universal free public healthcare provision and medical training.

But under Trump’s second administration, Rubio, the son of Cuban migrants who left the island during the Batista dictatorship, has spearheaded a renewed attack on the island’s international medical programmes. The recent State Department memo stated that Cuban medical brigades were a key source of “hard cash” for the regime.

The four forms of Cuban medical internationalism practices established in the 1960s are:

1. emergency medical brigades overseas
2. treatment of foreign patients in Cuba
3. training foreign students as healthcare professionals, and,
4. establishment of public healthcare facilities overseas.

This contribution to developing nations has often been ignored or censored. But it translates into millions of lives saved and improved globally every year. Sabotaging medical internationalism would devastate Cuba. But it would also leave millions of people around the world without the vital medical attention that they had previously enjoyed.

The man was spotted driving dangerously in West Belfast by PSNI officers

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A teenager has been charged after he was observed driving a scrambler in a dangerous manner by PSNI Air Support Team officers on Sunday afternoon, March 22.

The 19-year-old man has been charged to court with several offences, including dangerous driving. He was spotted driving the scrambler dangerously in the Glen Road area before being arrested.

The man was also charged with resisting police, using a motor vehicle without insurance, no driving licence and failing to wear protective headgear.

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He is due to appear before Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Friday, April 17.As is usual procedure, PSNI said the charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.

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