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Fidel Castro

Cuban poet Valladares to receive Becket’s Canterbury Medal

WASHINGTON – "They've taken everything away from me – or almost everything – I still have my smile, the proud sense that I'm a free man, and an eternally flowering garden in my soul," wrote Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet and artist jailed for 22 years after

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Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dies at 46

TORONTO (AP) — Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said. He was 46. Ford rode into office on a backlash against urban elites. He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada'