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Cubans and world leaders supplied a mixture of celebration and mourning following the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday night. The cause of the 90-year-old communist leader's death was not revealed, as Castro was to be cremated early Saturday morning in advance of nine days of national mourning before his funeral in the city of Santiago de Cuba on Dec. 4, CNN reported .
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The Cuban community in Miami celebrates the announcement that Fidel Castro died in front of La Carreta Restaurant, early Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Miami. Within half an hour of the Cuban governmenta sA A s official announcement that former President Fidel Castro had died, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, at age 90, Miamia sA A s Little Havana teemed with life - and cheers.
Famed for his rumpled olive fatigues, straggly beard and the cigars he reluctantly gave up for health reasons, Fidel Castro kept a tight clamp on dissent at home -- August 13, 1926: Castro is born in Biran, eastern Cuba, the third of seven children, son of a Spanish immigrant landowner and a Cuban mother who had been the family housekeeper. A fine student, Fidel was sent away from the farm to be schooled by Jesuits in Santiago.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and wife Margaret and Cuban President Fidel Castro listen to the national anthems of both countries after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, Jan.26, 1976. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and wife Margaret and Cuban President Fidel Castro listen to the national anthems of both countries after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, Jan.26, 1976.
The chill of the Cold War will run through Cuba when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in the country this week. The warming of relations between Cuba and the United States could end next year when Donald Trump takes over as president, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress that has vowed to renew sanctions and roll back the re-opening of diplomatic relations.
At a Lincoln Center gala that raised $3.1 million Tuesday night, Dave Matthews and Yissy Garcia, a woman drummer with a mohawk, played for Evercore Chief Executive Officer Ralph Schlosstein and Citigroup's head of corporate and investment banking, Raymond McGuire. Thank President Obama for giving the bankers the opportunity.
Americans traveling to Cuba will be allowed to bring home more of the communist-ruled island's coveted cigars and rum under new measures announced by the U.S. government on Friday to further ease trade, travel and financial restrictions that have been in place for decades. The steps are part of President Barack Obama's effort to make his historic opening to Cuba "irreversible" by the time he leaves office in January.
"The people of Cuba have struggled too long. Will reverse Obama's Executive Orders and concessions towards Cuba until freedoms are restored," Trump declared in a tweet Wednesday.
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By Samantha Tan KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 -- Cuba intends to present a resolution before the United Nations General Assembly next month against the blockade imposed by the US, which still remained in place, despite renewed diplomatic ties more than a year ago. Cuban Ambassador to Malaysia, Ibete Fernandez Hernandez, said at a press conference that the resolution titled "Necessity of Ending The Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States Against Cuba" will be brought before the 71st Session of the UNGA on Oct 26. This will be the 25th time Cuba goes to the UNGA to present resolutions to lift sanctions imposed by the US.
With the harsh sun of Santiago de Cuba reflected on his face and a few pounds lighter than his normal weight, one of the island's youngest dissidents, Carlos Amel Oliva, recently traveled to Miami. His goal: To thank exiles for the support he received during his four weeks on a hunger strike to demand that the Raul Castro government respect the human rights of the island's 11 million people.
Fidel Castro thanked Cubans for their well-wishes on his 90th birthday and criticized President Barack Obama in a lengthy letter published in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a gala in his honor broadcast on state television.
Fidel Castro thanked Cubans for their well-wishes on his 90th birthday and criticized President Barack Obama in a lengthy letter published in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a gala in his honor broadcast on state television Saturday evening.
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro, center right, attends a gala for his 90th birthday accompanied by his brother and current President Raul, center left, and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, right, at the 'Karl Marx' theater in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. Cuba's former President Fidel Castro attends a gala for his 90th birthday at the 'Karl Marx' theater in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016.
Cuba is awash with official tributes to former leader Fidel Castro ahead of his 90th birthday today. Dotted around Havana, flags read "Gracias, Fidel" and billboards cite his best-known phrases, while state media churns out stories about the man who toppled a US-backed dictator in 1959 and went on to rule Cuba for nearly half a century.
A tourist looks at quote by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro explaining in Spanish, 'Why we say homeland or death," on a wall at the entrance of a landmark private restaurant in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, July 28, 2016. After a decade out of the public eye, Fidel Castro has surged back in the run-up to his birthday next month as the inspiration for Cubans who want to maintain Communist orthodoxy in the face of mounting pressures to loosen control.
A “quinceanera” poses during a March 14 photo session in front of a cathedral as tourists line up to enter the building in Havana. Scheduled commercial airline service to Havana from 10 American cities won tentative government approval Thursday, advancing President Barack Obama's effort to normalize relations with Cuba.
The U.S. government on Thursday tentatively approved scheduled commercial airline service to Havana from 10 American cities, further bridging the gulf between countries as close as 90 miles and an hour flight but long kept at a greater distance by the Cold War. The decision is another long stride in President Barack Obama's effort to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba.