Havana: State media on Wednesday accused the social networking site Twitter of helping spread a rumour that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had died, and criticised anti-Castro expatriates it dubbed "necrophiliac counterrevolutionaries" for jumping on the story. An article on the state-run Cubadebate website accused Twitter of allowing an account holder with the sign-on "Naroh" to start the rumour on Monday from an Italian server, possibly after it was taken...
09:25 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Havana: Fidel Castro marked his 85th birthday outside of the public spotlight on Saturday, with little fanfare around the aging revolutionary icon who is rarely seen in public these days but still casts a long shadow over Cuban society. There were no announced celebrations of Castro's birthday, though the previous night two dozen musical acts from across Latin America held a concert in his honor. "What we say in the...
12:47 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Havana: Cuba's Communist Party elected President Raul Castro on Tuesday to succeed his older brother Fidel Castro as head of the country's highest political body and only legal party. Fidel Castro made an unexpected appearance on the last day of the crucial Communist Party congress that also approved sweeping economic reforms. The two brothers, who have rarely appeared together since Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and was forced to...
09:53 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Mexico City: Cuban leader Fidel Castro describes the illness that caused him to step down from power in near-religious terms a 'calvary' and his recovery a sort of resurrection. Castro, 84, made the remarks in an interview with a Mexican daily. "I was dead," Castro said in the interview. "I no longer aspired to living". After nearly half a century at the helm of the communist Caribbean island, Castro stepped...
02:04 PM, Aug 31, 2010
Castro warned that there could be a nuclear war if US President Barack Obama ordered an attack on Iran. ...
11:03 AM, Aug 08, 2010
The Cuban leader launched the 896-page memoir at a televised ceremony held at the Havana International Convention Centre. ...
04:59 PM, Aug 03, 2010
He often has praised Obama in recent years, but painted him as a pawn of the global capitalist machine on Wednesday. ...
07:57 PM, Jun 03, 2010
Cuban leader Fidel Casto flays Barack Obama in his column. ...
12:19 AM, Feb 08, 2009
Fidel Castro ousted the ruling government in 1959. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 02, 2009
Leading personalities are using blogs to reach out to their constituencies. ...
01:44 AM, Aug 03, 2008
Tourists in search of an authentic Cuban experience can join the queue. ...
10:04 PM, Jul 16, 2008
Castro's comment follows the rescue of over a dozen hostages. ...
01:39 PM, Jul 07, 2008
Birmingham: India's reputation of being fearsome fighters that has been steadily built over the last decade will undergo the sternest test over the next five days as they prepare to deny England what they would hope is their tryst with destiny. England have long wanted to stake claim to the No. 1 Test rankings and the manner in which they have played their cricket off late has been not only...
11:33 PM, Feb 19, 2008
Former physio of the Indian cricket team John Gloster also said that Zaheer Khan is an honest athlete. ...
04:07 PM, Feb 19, 2008
London: With Chris Tremlett still recovering from a back injury, pacer Tim Bresnan is set to retain his place in the England team for the third Test against India starting August 10 in Edgbaston. Tremlett has admitted that the back injury is still troubling him. Every day my injury has felt a bit better. It's niggling a bit. I bowled a couple of times in the week, not at full...
01:15 PM, Feb 19, 2008
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