The embassy in Havana will lose roughly 60 % of its U.S. staff, and will stop processing visas in Cuba indefinitely, the American officials said. For now, the United States is not ordering any Cuban diplomats to leave Washington, another move that the administration had considered, officials said. Although the State Department has called them “incidents” and generally avoided deeming them attacks, officials said Friday the U.S. now has determined there were “specific attacks” on American personnel in Cuba. The United States notified Cuba early on September 29 via its embassy in Washington. The U.S. will also stop sending official delegations to Cuba, though diplomatic discussions will continue in Washington.

Source: The Hindu September 29, 2017 15:45 UTC