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(Vatican Radio) Former President Fidel Castro, has died at age 90. His brother President Raul Castro said on state television that his older brother died at 10:29 p.m. Friday. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost 50 years before Raul took over eight years ago.Listen to James Blears’ report: An era of Revolution, which shook and changed the World passes, with the death of Fidel Castro, the architect of the Cuban Revolution. Until the very end of his life, just ten years shy of a century, Fidel Castro was a hard line Marxist revolutionary. He ruled Cuba for almost fifty years and through ten US Presidential terms. He gave up smoking Cuba`s most famous product, cherished by rich capitalists. But it was a serious gastric ailment, and a botched operation which so nearly claimed his life in 2006. It convinced him to release his iron grip on the reigns of power in 2008, officially handing them over to his younger, quieter, less c...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- After operating out of Pakistan for more than a decade, the leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban movement may have moved back to their homeland to try to build on this year's gains in the war and to establish a permanent presence....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Students and administrators raised concerns about a Tennessee school bus driver's behavior behind the wheel in the weeks before a crash that killed six children....
LONDON (AP) -- In Britain, Big Brother just got bigger....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump looked at hundreds of marble samples before selecting one for the lobby of Trump Tower. He can recall, in painstaking detail even decades later, how he stood in the cold and oversaw the ice-making process at Central Park's rink. And, during the campaign, he personally reviewed every single campaign ad, rejecting some over the smallest of perceived flaws....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is ignoring questions about efforts to recount votes in key battleground states, focusing instead on the latest additions to his administration....
MIAMI (AP) -- Within half an hour of the Cuban government's official announcement that former President Fidel Castro had died, Miami's Little Havana teemed with life - and cheers....
HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro's rule of nearly five decades split many a Cuban family between exile and solidarity with the communist revolution - including his own....
HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro's revolution was slowly dying - or so it seemed....
HAVANA (AP) -- Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90....
