Monday, February 25, 2013

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Castro's 2018 retirement looms for Cuba, Miami
Cuba's new Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, listens to Cuba's President Raul Castro during the closing session at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2012. Raul Castro accepted a new five-year term that will be, he said, his last as Cuba's president and tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel, 52, as vice-president and first in the line of succession. Diaz-Canel has risen higher than any other Cuban official who didn't directly part   icipate in the 1959 Cuban revolution. At center Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) -- It's been more than 54 years since someone not named "Castro" led Cuba, and it will likely be five more.


Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm
In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, women walk past a poster of Shiite religious leaders and a Shiite fighter killed during a fight between US troops and al-Mahdi Army militia in the Jihad neighborhood of west Baghdad, Iraq. Fliers claiming to be from a new Iranian-linked Shiite militant group began turning up last week in front of Iraqi Sunni households bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face BAGHDAD (AP) -- The fliers began turning up at Sunni households in the Iraqi capital' ;s Jihad neighborhood last week bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face "great agony" soon.


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