Key dates in Fidel Castro's Cuba

A timeline of events in Cuba under the presidency of Fidel Castro.
He was one of the world's longest serving leaders and political survivors whose revolution defied 11 United States' presidents.
Fidel Castro antagonised and outlasted nine US presidents but he himself died on Saturday aged 90.
Hurricane Otto has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but not before it killed nine people in Costa Rica.
A US judge has rejected a move by lawyers for a man who killed nine people in a black church last year to have him declared unfit for trial.
Giant panda cub Bei Bei is recovering following surgery to remove a "lemon-sized mass of bamboo" from his small intestine in the US.
A recount will take place of the votes cast in the state of Wisconsin in the US presidential election, although a change in the result is highly unlikely.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has filed for a recount in Wisconsin and will also file for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump has tapped Fox News analyst Kathleen McFarland to be deputy national security adviser, and campaign attorney Donald McGahn as White House counsel.
Authorities have exhumed 32 bodies and nine heads from several clandestine graves in the state of Guererro.
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Thursday launched a bid to seek a vote recount in Wisconsin, the first of three Rust Belt states won by...

Hurricane Otto weakens

Hurricane Otto has weakened into a Category 1 storm and is expected to emerge off of Central America's Pacific coast by early Friday as a tropical storm.
An Israeli man is suing New Jersey police, claiming officers unjustly strip-searched him and made fun of his genitals and accent.
US experts believe they know why 1919's Great Molasses Flood killed so many people, and could use the discovery to better understand other spills and disasters.
More than 10,000 people have been evacuated as Hurricane Otto swirls over central America.
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