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Suffice it to say, it is highly unusual to see shootouts in open sea like that.

It's not something that happens every day.

It's something, frankly, that hasn't happened with Cuba in a very long time.

Forearmed Cuban exiles on a speedboat were killed Wednesday in a shootout with Cuban border troops.

Cuba says the men were attempting to infiltrate the country.

Six other men were injured and are being held in hospital in Cuba.

This comes as Cuba's facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S. oil blockade.

We'll speak to Code Pink's Medea Benjamin just back from Cuba.

Then to the massacre of aid workers in Gaza.

An 11-month investigation by forensic architecture and earshot has uncovered how Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian

aid workers a year ago, then tried to cover it up.

We'll speak to the investigators in London, then to the committee to protect journalists.

129 journalists were killed worldwide in 2025, making it the deadliest year on record

since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting this data in 1992.

Israel was responsible for two-thirds of these killings in attacks on the press in Gaza, Yemen,

and Iran.

We'll look at the record number of journalists being killed worldwide, as well as a new CPJ report on Palestinian journalists being tortured in Israeli prisons.

All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have begun indirect negotiations in Geneva over Iran's nuclear program

after President Trump ordered the largest deployment of U.S. forces to the Middle East since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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