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Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90

Fidel Castro. PHOTO: FILE

HAVANA: Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90.

Castro, in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed him in 2006.

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