US lawmakers assured Castro does not have cancer
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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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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro,   looking well along the road to recovery, 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 undergo intestinal surgery.
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Raul Castro said Monday that Communist Party leaders support his brother Fidel's re-election to parliament, saying he is exercising two hours daily and gaining weight while keeping his mind healthy with reading and writing.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not at death's door and rumors in Miami of his demise are wishful thinking, Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto said on Wednesday.
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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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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ariel Perez was, like thousands of fellow Cuban doctors, a devoted soldier in Fidel Castro's most important overseas mission -- providing medical care to the poor in oil-rich Venezuela, Cuba's most vital ally. But last year, Perez and two Cuban companions, carrying rucksacks with...
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, says he does not want to 'cling' to power
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the worst   is over and he is recovering well from intestinal surgery one   month ago despite losing 41 lbs (18.6 kg), a statement   published on Tuesday said.
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President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Fidel Castro is not dying of cancer, saying he had spoken with the ailing Cuban leader by phone and he is eating cautiously and well enough to joke.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is lucid and healthy enough to resume a political role in Cuba, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday.
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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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Cuban leader Fidel Castro does not have cancer, says his ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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An outspoken British lawmaker appeared on Cuban television praising Fidel Castro as a &quot;lion&quot; of world politics and defending the Cuban leader against a magazine report naming him one of the world&#039;s wealthiest rulers.
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HAVANA  - Cubans saw President Fidel Castro in awheel-chair on Sunday in television images that showed theCuban leader looking rested after shattering his left knee andfracturing his right arm in a fall on Oct. 20.
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Cuba will continue to build up its defenses against the United States and Cubans should be prepared to make more sacrifices to remain independent, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an editorial published on Monday.
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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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Cuban leader Fidel Castro has almost fully recovered from intestinal surgery that put his life at risk last year, a senior Cuban official told CNN on Friday.