Fidel Castro phones Cuban officials: paper reports
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Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro has spoken by telephone to a meeting of Cuban officials, the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Saturday in the first official word on the 80-year-old leader in 11 days.
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Fidel Castro signed a lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a Cuban political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, even amid rampant rumors of his death.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Cuban President Fidel   Castro says he has started putting on weight again, in his   first interview since the 80-year-old communist leader fell ill   and adding to growing evidence he is recovering from   life-threatening surgery.
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Fidel Castro is not terminally ill and would make a public appearance shortly, but is unlikely to return to governing Cuba on a day-to-day basis, Cuban government officials told a visiting delegation of members of the U.S. Congress.
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Cuba publishes an article signed by President Fidel Castro amid speculation among exiles about his health.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Fidel Castro discussed Cuban-supported education and health care programs in Nicaragua and Venezuelan, state-run media reported on Sunday.
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Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales met with Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro during a day trip to the island on Wednesday, state television reported.
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A statement signed by Fidel Castro sought to reassure Cubans Wednesday that the 80-year-old Cuban leader is recovering well from several operations
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President Fidel Castro, in an announcement that raised eyebrows at energy companies, disclosed that oil deposits were discovered off Cuba.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro called in to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's radio talk show on Tuesday, declaring he's "more energetic, stronger" and his country is running smoothly without him at the helm.
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Convalescing leader Fidel Castro received visiting Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh, Cuban television reported Saturday.
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Two senior Cuban officials said on Wednesday that Cuban leader Fidel Castro, absent from public view for more than a year, is recovering from an intestinal problem that required several operations.
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Cuban television Tuesday broadcast scenes of what it said was ailing leader Fidel Castro meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro gave his first television interview in more than three months on Friday following speculation in recent weeks that he might be on his death bed.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public for 16 months, suggested on Monday he might give up his formal leadership posts -- the first time he has spoken of his possible retirement.
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Large-scale exercises by the Cuban military are an attempt by Fidel Castro's government to distract people from the hardships of their lives, the State Department said Monday.