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CANADA

Troops to leave Afghanistan

TORONTO | Canada will not extend its mission in Afghanistan even if President Obama asks Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do so when the countries’ leaders meet this week, Mr. Harper’s office said Monday.

Harper spokesman Dimitri Soudas reiterated in a briefing Monday that Canada will withdraw its troops in 2011.

One hundred and thirty Canadian soldiers and a diplomat have been killed in Afghanistan, where Canada has 2,500 troops.

Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the United States and increased its deployment after declining a U.S. request to dispatch troops to Iraq.

Although Canada usually has served in more of a peacekeeping role in overseas missions since after World War II, Mr. Harper has been a steadfast ally in the post-Sept. 11 fight against al Qaeda.

CUBA

Almeida to rest with heroes

HAVANA | The remains of Cuban revolutionary hero Juan Almeida Bosque will be buried in a mausoleum for rebel fighters in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the government announced Monday.

Mr. Almeida, who fought alongside former President Fidel Castro in the 1959 revolution and was one of several Cuban vice presidents, died Friday of a heart attack at the age of 82. Cuba held an official day of mourning Sunday, and tens of thousands lined up at the capital’s Revolution Square to pay their respects.

A motorcade containing Mr. Almeida’s remains will depart for the mausoleum from the military airport in the eastern city of Santiago, 535 miles southeast of Havana, on Tuesday.

BOLIVIA

Investors viewed with suspicion

MADRID | Bolivia welcomes foreign investment in its energy and natural resource sectors but without foreign companies acting as owners, President Evo Morales said Monday.

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