{"id":326606,"date":"2017-09-18T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-considers-embassy-closure-in-cuba-tillerson\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:52:45","slug":"us-considers-embassy-closure-in-cuba-tillerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-considers-embassy-closure-in-cuba-tillerson\/","title":{"rendered":"US considers embassy closure in Cuba: Tillerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering closing down the recently re-opened US embassy in Havana after several American diplomats experienced a string of unexplained health problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have it under evaluation,&#8221; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very serious issue with respect to the harm that certain individuals have suffered. We&#8217;ve brought some of those people home. It&#8217;s under review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US intelligence community has not yet managed to come up with a clear explanation as to what, or who caused mysterious injuries reported by 21 US diplomatic staff in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them have permanent hearing loss or concussions, while others suffered nausea, headaches and ear-ringing. Some are struggling with concentration or common word recall.<\/p>\n<p>An ongoing probe has baffled the investigators who initially thought the injuries could have been caused by a sonic weapon, VICE News reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/18\/535574\/US-considers-embassy-closure-in-Cuba-Tillerson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering closing down the recently re-opened US embassy in Havana after several American diplomats experienced a string of unexplained health problems. &#8220;We have it under evaluation,&#8221; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very serious issue with respect to the harm that certain individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}