Former Cuban President Fidel Castro attending a special session of the Cuban Parliament, on Saturday in Havana. Mr Castro addressed the communist country’s National Assembly for the first time in four years. The leader, who turns 84 on August 13, ceded power to his younger brother Raul in 2006, after suffering a stomach ailment.

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