Waking up without Fidel: Around 12 million Cubans have just spent their first day without the Máximo Líder.

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Melting glaciers are threatening his home and city. The causes are climate change and RWE's huge carbon emissions, he alleges.

Many Cubans had fled the island after Castro took over as the country's president in 1959, with a large portion settling in Miami, Florida.

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With a national election approaching next year, the head of the CSU (Christlich-Soziale Union) has said that Germany needs to curb the number of refugees entering the country.

The rare phenomena happens when rye grass pollen breaks into small pieces after getting wet, sending pollen counts to dangerous levels.

With the social make-up of communities across Europe changing, schools have become breeding grounds for extremism.

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Bulgarian authorities closed Harmanli, Bulgaria reception center this week after they found out infectious diseases were spreading.

"After his victory, Donald J. Trump shows that he will govern as he campaigned: unpredictably and with many contradictions. That's why media and civil society have to hold him accountable."

Donald J. Trump has said he will see to it that Apple makes its iPhones at home in the US, and not in China. What would this mean in terms of production costs?

"We need to start shifting the focus from who it happens to, to who did it. End of story." It's NOT your fault.

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