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Frightening attacks on U.S. personnel in Havana struck the heart of America’s spy network in Cuba, with intelligence operatives among the first and most severely affected victims, The Associated Press has learned.

It wasn’t until U.S. spies, posted to the embassy under diplomatic cover, reported hearing bizarre sounds and experiencing even stranger physical effects that the United States realized something was wrong, individuals familiar with the situation said.

Few imagined that the day would turn as violent as it did.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had ordered thousands of Policia National and Guardia Civil to the Catalan capital to stop voting in a referendum on independence. Stand-offs were expected. Sit-ins. Shouting. Flag waving. But in the early hours, that was all that seemed likely.

It was pouring rain and still the voting lines stretched around the block at those polling places Madrid’s forces had failed to shut down. In the trendy Sant Antoni neighborhood, the voters included the elderly, middle-aged women with with their dogs, mothers with their children. And there were more people lined up than anyone remembered seeing for a long time.

President Donald Trump says his chief diplomat is "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korea about its nuclear and missile programs.

Trump tweets this advice to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: "Save your energy, Rex, we'll do what has to be done!"

The president isn't elaborating, but he told the United Nations last month that if the U.S. is "forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."

Canadian authorities announced an investigation into a pair of possible terrorist attacks on Sunday morning.

A man struck an Edmonton police officer with a car and stabbed him, and four pedestrians later were hit by a truck driving on a street.

An unidentified 30-year-old male driver was arrested two hours later after his vehicle overturned in a police chase late Saturday, police said. An Islamic State group flag was found in the car.

Two people, including one woman, are dead following a knife attack at the main train station in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, according to the French interior ministry.

Xavier Tarabeux, a local prosecutor, says the assailant has been shot by soldiers patrolling there, while Marseille police are urging people to avoid the area around Saint-Charles station.

The United States delivered an ominous warning to Americans on Friday to stay away from Cuba and ordered home more than half the U.S. diplomatic corps, acknowledging neither the Cubans nor America's FBI can figure out who or what is responsible for months of mysterious health ailments.

No longer tiptoeing around the issue, the Trump administration shifted to calling the episodes "attacks" rather than "incidents."