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US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro meet at the UN General Assembly in New York, September 29, 2015. Obama is reportedly planning a historic visit to Cuba in March. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS


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Cuba’s Fidel Castro. (AFP Photo/Roberto Chile)


Cuba’s Fidel Castro Dies at 90

Cuba’s Fidel Castro Dies at 90

Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied Washington’s efforts to topple him, died on Friday at the age of 90. Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed...
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US President Barack Obama with the First Lady Michelle Obama and their two daughters when arriving to Havana on Sunday


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Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama shake hands moments before the opening ceremony of the VII Americas Summit, in Panama City on April 10, 2015. (AFP Photo/Presidencia Panama)


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A visitor looks at a photograph of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at an exhibition at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, United States, on December 18, 2014. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)


No word yet from Fidel amid historic US-Cuba shift

No word yet from Fidel amid historic US-Cuba shift

Havana, AP—Everyone in Cuba is talking about the startling turn in relations with the United States, with one notable exception: Fidel Castro. So far, the larger-than-life retired Cuban leader has made no public comment on the biggest news in years—that the US and his...