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| France votes for centre-right candidate - and perhaps next president | | Sunday, November 27, 2016 3:18 AM | |
|  By Richard Lough and Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) - Former prime ministers Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe go head-to-head on Sunday in a runoff vote for France's centre-right presidential nomination, with the winner likely to face a showdown against a resurgent far-right in next year's election. A 62-year-old racing car enthusiast who lives in a Loire valley chateau, Fillon promises radical reforms to France's regulation-encumbered economy, vowing to roll back the state and slash government's bloated costs. "My enemy is the decline of France," Fillon declared on Friday night, speaking to supporters in Paris at a final rally before the vote.
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| Leaders pay tribute to Fidel Castro, but critics scathing of 'tyrant' | | Sunday, November 27, 2016 3:01 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - World leaders paid tribute on Saturday to Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States, but in death just as in life he divided opinion, and critics labeled him a "tyrant". Castro died on Friday aged 90, his younger brother and successor Raul Castro announced on state television. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: U.S. President Barack Obama offered his condolences to Fidel Castro's family and added that history would judge Castro's impact on Cuba and around the world.
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| In intimate ally Venezuela, tears and cheers over Castro's death | |  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling socialists mourned former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, while opposition hardliners exulted over the death of a man they call a dictator who helped wreck the economy and whose country has for years got an easy ride with subsidized oil. The two leftist Latin American governments became intimate allies under Castro and his younger disciple, the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, a relationship buttressed by generous oil shipments from the OPEC country to the Communist-run island in return for thousands of Cuban doctors, teachers, sports trainers and security advisers. Venezuela used to send Cuba some 100,000 barrels of oil per day, but data seen by Reuters showed a 40 percent decline in crude shipments in the first half of the year compared with 2015 and that could fall further amid a production slump.
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| Trump says he will do all he can to help Cuban people | |  By Roberta Rampton WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that his administration would "do all it can" once it takes office on Jan. 20 to help boost freedom and prosperity for Cuban people after the death of Fidel Castro. Trump had threatened late in his upstart campaign for the White House that concerns about religious freedom in Cuba could prompt him to reverse President Barack Obama's moves to open relations with the Cold War adversary after more than a half-century's estrangement. Obama said this was an emotional moment for Cubans and Cuban-Americans and offered condolences to Castro's family.
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| Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90 | |  By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday. Wearing a green military uniform, a somber Raul Castro, 85, appeared on state television on Friday night to announce Fidel's death, 60 years to the day since the two brothers and a few supporters left Mexico on a boat to bring revolution to Cuba. "At 10:29 at night, the chief commander of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died," he said, without giving a cause of death.
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| Revelers fill Miami streets to celebrate death of Fidel Castro | |  By Nicole Martinez MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban-Americans celebrating the death of former leader Fidel Castro flooded the streets of Miami's Little Havana early on Saturday, waving flags, setting off fireworks and banging on pots to revel in his passing. Lines of honking cars outside the Versailles Restaurant, long a center of the city's exile community, passed hundreds of cheering revelers who defied occasional rain to rejoice at Castro's death on Friday at 90. "This is the happiest day of my life, Cubans are finally free!" said Orlidia Montells, 84, who said she had been waiting for Castro to die for more than 50 years.
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| Malaysian political cartoonist Zunar arrested under sedition law | | | Malaysian political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, or Zunar as he is popularly known, was arrested on Saturday under the country's Sedition Act for cartoons that allegedly insulted Prime Minister Najib Razak. 54-year-old Zunar would be held for a day to facilitate investigations, state news agency Bernama reported. Other than the Sedition Act, the cartoonist will also be probed under penal code for humiliating a person with intention, Bernama reported. |
| Iraqi parliament passes contested law on Shi'ite paramilitaries | |  Iraq's parliament approved a law on Saturday that will transform Popular Mobilisation forces, a mostly Iranian-backed coalition of Shi'ite militias that played a role in fighting Islamic State, into a legal and separate military corps. Disagreements over the paramilitary units are complicating efforts to pull Iraq together as forces battle to defeat Islamic State, the ultra-hardline Sunni group that overran a third of the country in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" that spans parts of Syria. Popular Mobilisation, or Hashid Shaabi in Arabic, was accused of abuses against Sunni civilians in towns and villages retaken from Islamic State, according to international human rights groups and the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner.
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