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Firefighters are still trying to quell the blaze at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, where the fire began during a thunderstorm Friday night.
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A natural gas leak was the apparent cause of Friday's blast at the 96-room hotel. The 19th-century structure in the Old Havana neighbourhood did not have any guests at the time because it was undergoing renovations.
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A deadly explosion hit a famous hotel in Havana on Friday. It killed at least 22 people and injured over 70. Speaking from the scene, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the blast appeared to have been caused by a gas leak.
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A powerful explosion damaged a hotel in the Cuban capital Multistory Hotel Saratoga in downtown Havana was damaged in the explosion The Cuban news agency ACN published photos of the explosion showing smoke and flames coming from the hotel building
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The devastation wrought suggested it was an "EF4" tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the second most powerful category with winds up to 322 Km per hour.
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Ferment wine, fix punctures or tie up hair - latex condoms have become the ultimate multipurpose tool on the Communist-run island.
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Routine visa operations will also be suspended indefinitely, in response to the mysterious health attacks that left several US embassy staff with brain injuries and hearing loss. 
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Around 50,000 families in total were in need of new housing.
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A statement from civil defence authorities said the victims perished due to various causes such as accidents.
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Castro said that Trump's decisions ignored large sectors of the US and most Cuban emigrants in support of lifting the embargo and normalising bilateral ties, and merely satisfied a small group in Florida.
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About 70,000 people have visited Cuban leader Fidel Castro`s tomb in the city of Santiago de Cuba over the past month since his interment.
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Only 5 percent of Cubans are estimated to enjoy the Internet at home, which requires government permission. 
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had called Fidel Castro as "one of the most important Latin American leaders of the 20th century".
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The urn containing the remains of Castro, who died Friday at age 90, was covered by a Cuban flag and protected by a crystal covering as it was transported.  
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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday left for Cuban capital Havana to pay his last respects to the country's former president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro who passed away on Friday. 
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Galvanized by a 21-gun salute that thundered across Havana, tens of thousands of Cubans paid final respects on Monday to Fidel Castro.
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In the Pyongyang subway, commuters in one station crowded around a glass case containing a Castro obituary published by the ruling party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun.
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Some sang the Cuban national anthem, others shook up bottles of champagne and sprayed the fizz onto the crowd of revelers.  
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From Dwight Eisenhower, who broke US diplomatic relations with Cuba, to Barack Obama, who decided to normalize them, 11 US presidents faced off with Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who died late Friday.
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Key events in the life of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whose death at 90 was announced on Saturday.






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