Castro does not have cancer, seriously ill: Chavez
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Cuban leader Fidel Castro does not have cancer, but is fighting a "great battle" against a "very serious" illness, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday.
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Havana, Dec 14 (AIN) Cuban President Fidel Castro awarded visiting Venezuelan Head of State Hugo Chavez with the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Order at a rally marking the 10th anniversary of Chavez&#39; first visit to Cuba.
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In his first statement on his health in 10 months, Cuba's President Castro says he has had several operations.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo   Chavez said he would visit ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro in   Havana on Saturday night for Castro's 80th birthday.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he had prostate cancer but said that the disease was not life-threatening.
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A clearly recovering Cuban President Fidel Castro was shown on television Friday meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and brother Raul Castro, to whom he temporarily ceded power a month ago to have abdominal surgery.
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President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez said yesterday that Fidel Castro is battling a "very serious illness" but is not dying of cancer. He said he spoke with the Cuban leader , that he is eating cautiously and is well enough to joke. "I'm very well informed," Ch&#xE1;vez said. The Cuban government insists Castro, 80, is recovering after intestinal surgery. ...
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CUBAN President Fidel Castro, 87, wrote from his hospital bed today that he was doing well after an operation on a knee he broke in a fall.
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The Cuban government has provided no details on Fidel Castro's health and released no pictures of the leader since it announced Monday night that he was having surgery and handing power to his brother.
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A clearly recovering Cuban President   Fidel Castro was shown on television on Friday meeting with   Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and brother Raul Castro, to   whom he temporarily ceded power a month ago to have abdominal   surgery.
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Paris - Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in Paris for urgent treatment of a mysterious illness, does not have leukemia, a Palestinian diplomat said on Saturday.
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The Palestinian leader has undergone exploratory tests that show he has no major illness, doctors say.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he is recovering well and that the worst of his health crisis is behind him.
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Michael Moore&#39;s new documentary film  &quot;SiCKO&quot; has given Cuba&#39;s free health system its best publicity  since Fidel Castro&#39;s 1959 revolution, a Cuban doctor who hosted  the filmmaker&#39;s visit said on Monday.
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Cuban officials have assured visiting US lawmakers that Fidel Castro does not have cancer and is not dying, despite his failure to appear in public since July, members of the US delegation told reporters.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he planned to lunch on Wednesday with ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public for 16 months.
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Visiting U.S. lawmakers were told by Cuban officials that the ailing Fidel Castro is not terminally ill and will return to public life, but some of the legislators said they saw in the assurances of Castro's health a growing political vacuum on the Communist island.