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Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has recalled talking global politics with Fidel Castro.

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Update 11pm: Junior Minister John Halligan has defended President Michael D Higgins over his praise for the regime of Fidel Castro.

There has been a call for President Michael D Higgins to apologise for remarks he made in a statement following the death of Fidel Castro.

Tourists who went to Havana for salsa music and mojitos ended up wandering through a city turned silent by nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro.

It took me a while but I caught up last week with Michael MacCambridge’s America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation.

President Michael D Higgins has hit back at criticism of his tribute to Fidel Castro, saying it is “unsustainable and unwarranted”.

Independent Alliance Minister Finian McGrath has described the death of Fidel Castro as a “very sad day” and claimed many of the human rights abuses spoken of were “exaggerated”.

Fidel Castro was ‘the great master of political seduction’ and survived over 100 assassination attempts to build his revolutionary state, write Reuters journalists Daniel Trotta and Sarah Marsh

The Cuban government has declared nine days of mourning for Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader who has died at the age of 90.

However, statements from both camps did reach out to the Cuban people to work for a better future between the two countries.

Gonzalo Higuain scored the winner on his league debut to clinch reigning Serie A champions Juventus a 2-1 opening-day win over Fiorentina.

Fidel Castro greeted his 80th birthday from his sickbed, gripping a newspaper to show he was alive two weeks after stepping down as president.

James Hahn said the anxiety was creeping in after missing eight straight cuts on the PGA Tour, causing him to wonder if he’d ever get his game straightened out.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday became the first American leader in 88 years to visit Cuba. The last, Calvin Coolidge, arrived on Cuban shores in the battleship USS Texas and was greeted by salvos from massed artillery.

US President Barack Obama has started an extraordinary visit to Cuba, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties with America's former adversary.

Brazil will mobilise 220,000 troops in the battle against the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus linked to birth defects, the country’s health minister said.

The stakes were high at the Cuban military airfield in San Antonio de los Baños, some 20 miles south west of Havana, two days before Christmas in 1962.

France’s No 8 may be comparatively small, but Louis Picamoles has a habit of humiliating those who underestimate him

Pope Francis has landed in Havana at the start of an historic 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States after serving as secret mediator of the rapprochement between the former Cold War foes.

Michelle Knight is famous for surviving 4,000 days of rape and torture. But that doesn’t pay the rent or buy back her life, writes Abigail Jones.

Cuban president Raul Castro arrived at the Vatican yesterday to thank Pope Francis for his role in brokering the rapprochement between Havana and Washington.

US president Barack Obama met Cuban president Raul Castro on Saturday in the highest-level talks between the two countries in nearly 60 years, and the two men agreed to push ahead on improving relations after decades of hostility.

President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro are holding their first formal meeting in another historic step towards ending decades of hostility.

Cuban President Raul Castro has delivered a stunning defence of US President Barack Obama, absolving him of responsibility for the blockade against Cuba hours before the two were expected to hold the first major meeting between a US and Cuban president in more than half a century.

US president Barack Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro have talked by telephone about restoring diplomatic ties and will meet informally at a summit this weekend as they seek to set aside decades of hostility between two Cold War enemies.

IT would have been unthinkable for Cold War warriors such as George W Bush and Fidel Castro to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

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