Raul Castro proves no lightweight in leading Cuba
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Raul Castro has kept Cuba stable and its economy growing in his first year in charge since his brother Fidel Castro was forced to step aside, but he has not delivered the reforms many Cubans hoped for.
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Tanks rolled through the streets and jets roared overhead on Saturday in Havana's first military parade in a decade, but ailing leader Fidel Castro did not attend in what many saw as a sign his long rule of Cuba may be over.
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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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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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Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro - one of the world's longest serving leaders - says he will not return to the presidency.
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Cuban president Fidel Castro is recovering today, hours after falling as he left the stage following a televised speech. But the communist leader quickly recovered his composure and assured people he was âall in one pieceâ.
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Cuba&#39;s &#39;legendary&#39; leader, Fidel Castro, broke his knee and fractured his right arm when he fell down behind the podium during a speech at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday he was recovering and feeling stronger in his first live radio broadcast since emergency stomach surgery forced him to relinquish power in July.
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Cuba took over leadership of the Nonaligned Movement Friday, but with Fidel Castro too sick to promise an appearance, his younger brother and his close friend Hugo Chavez of Venezuela were left to mete out the anti-American invective.
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Fidel Castro appeared more vigorous on Sunday in the first television images of the Cuban leader to be broadcast in Cuba in four months, adding weight to reports that he has put his health crisis behind him.
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Acting President Raul Castro said Cuba remains open to normalized relations with the United States, but warned the Bush administration in his first comments since assuming power that it will get nowhere with threats or pressure.
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Cubans are no strangers to the battle of the bulge.
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HAVANA: President Fidel Castro, recovering from a fall that broke his kneecap and an arm, has received get-well wishes from the leaders around the globe, state media reported Saturday.
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Cuban leader says he is eating solid food and regaining weight and strength.
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The Bush administration dismissed Raul Castro, suddenly the acting leader in Cuba, as no more than a "prison-keeper" on Tuesday as officials reviewed long-standing plans for the post-Fidel Castro era.
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Cuba published a photo Sunday of a standing, smiling Fidel Castro looking heavier but still gaunt as he met with Angola's president, the first head of state to see the ailing 81-year-old since June.
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HBN, HAVANA, Cuba, Mon. Nov. 8: Cuban President, Fidel Castro, received a surprise visit from his friend, Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.