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Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro dies World

Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro dies

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Friday, November 25, 2016

Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died in Havana aged 90, his brother, President Raul Castro, announced on national television. "The com…

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FARC rebels' last days in the Colombian jungle ? World

FARC rebels' last days in the Colombian jungle ?

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Colombian government and the Farc rebels have signed a historic ceasefire deal, bringing them closer to ending more than five decades of co…

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Obama visits Cuba World

Obama visits Cuba

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Monday, March 21, 2016

President Barack Obama makes a historic trip to Cuba, the first visit by a sitting U.S. president since 1928.

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Cuban flag and an image of Che Guevara State media

Cuban flag and an image of Che Guevara

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Saturday, March 19, 2016

A bicycle taxi rides past a building painted with a Cuban flag and an image of Che Guevara, along with the Spanish slogan "Always toward vic…

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A picture of revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara World

A picture of revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Saturday, January 09, 2016

A child holds up a picture of revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara as others, background, carry portraits of Fidel Castro and ind…

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U.S. marines raise the flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana United States Marine Corps

U.S. marines raise the flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Saturday, August 15, 2015

U.S. marines raise the flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana for the first time in 54 years.

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