Fidel Castro, the revolutionary who ruled Cuba for nearly half a century, is dead.
Today’s weather.
Crewe Alexandra Football Club has tonight announced an independent review of its handling of allegations of abuse of young players by a former coach more than 20 years ago.
American writer Jon Lee Anderson, is writing a book about Fidel Castro. So what kind of legacy does Castro leaves behind?
Cubans living in exile in Miami have been celebrating Castro’s death. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled his regime, many to America. Jackie Long is there.
He was a world leader who divided opinions like no other. Here is a look back at Fidel Castro’s turbulent life, a glamorous and heroic revolutionary to some – a brutal and misguided dictator to others.
Cuba has declared nine days of mourning for Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader seized power in Cuba 57 years ago and soon found his communist instincts in collision with his giant US neighbour. And while Barack Obama said today that America extended the hand of friendship to the Cuban people, President-elect Trump dismissed Castro as…
Fidel Castro is dead. The former Cuban leader died on Friday, aged 90. Freedom fighter turned dictator, he ruled Cuba for fifty years. Reviled and revered in equal measure he was an icon of the 20th century.
Jon Snow
I only met him once. I interviewed him in Nicaragua, in English. He spoke about 100 words of it, I would say – maybe more, but if so, he didn’t let on in our discussion.
Fidel Castro, the revolutionary who ruled Cuba for nearly half a century, is dead.
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Trevor Noah talks with Krishnan Guru-Murthy about race, what a Trump presidency means for America and his new book ‘Born a Crime’, about his life growing up with a black mother and white father in apartheid South Africa.
Thousands of protesters across the Philippines have taken to the streets after the ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos was buried in a secret military ceremony. Activists have turned their anger on President Duterte for sanctioning the burial, while his hardline war on drugs is threatening to dent his popularity.
Senior judges have ordered the independent police watchdog to re-investigate the police Taser death of a factory worker in Manchester. In the first ruling of its kind, the High Court quashed the IPCC’s original inquiry into the death of Jordon Begley in 2013, which cleared any officer of blame.
Pro-Brexit Tories have rounded on Sir John Major for suggesting a second referendum on Britain’s departure from the EU would be perfectly credible.The former PM said the Brexit process shouldn’t be subjected to the “tyranny of the majority”, sparking anger among Eurosceptics.
Interviews with Paul Stewart, a former England footballer who came forward this week detailing his own allegations of the years of abuse he suffered as a young player, and Tom Perry, from the Mandate Now charity.
