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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free press tuesday August 1, 2006 in Resolution Castro relinquishes Powers Iran Given nuclear temporarily turns presidency Over to brother following surgery deadline by Anita Snow h Avana ? Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential Powers to his brother Raul last night and told cubans he underwent surgery. The cuban Leader said he had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding apparently due to stress from recent Public appearances in Argentina and Cuba according to the letter read live on Tele vision by his Secretary Carlos Valenciaga. The operation obligates me to undertake several weeks of rest the letter read adding that extreme stress had provoked in me a Sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding that obligated me to undergo a complicated surgical Castro said he was temporarily relinquishing the presidency to his younger brother and successor Raul the defence minister but said the move was of a provisional there was no immediate appearance or state ment by Raul Castro. The elder Castro asked that celebrations scheduled for his 80th birth Day on aug. 13 be postponed until dec. 2, the 50th anniversary of Cuba a revolutionary armed forces. Castro said he would also temporarily relinquish his duties As first Secre tary of the communist party of Cuba to Raul who turned 75 in june and who has been taking on a More Public pro file in recent weeks. In Power since the Triumph of the cuban revolution on Jan. 1, 1959, Cas around the world monks accused of assault Johnson City Texas ? four monks pleaded not guilty to charges alleging a boy was sexually assaulted at a Texas monastery that draws thou Sands of visitors every year officials said yesterday. The four monks of the Christ of the Hills monastery were arrested and indicted after a Young Tro has been the worlds longest ruling head of government. Only Britain a Queen Elizabeth crowned in 1952, has been head of state longer. The maximum leaders ironclad Rule has ensured Cuba remains among the worlds five remaining communist countries. The others Are All in Asia China Vietnam Laos and North Korea. Over nearly five decades hundreds of thousands of cubans have fled Cas Tro a Rule Many of them settling just across the Florida Straits in Miami. Castro Rose to Power after an armed revolution he led drove out then pres ident Fulgencio Batista. The United states was the first coun try to recognize Castro but his Radical economic reforms and rapid trials of Batista supporters quickly unsettled . Leaders. Washington eventually slapped a Trade embargo on the Island and Sev ered diplomatic ties. Castro seized american property and businesses and turned to the soviet Union for military and economic assistance. On april 16, 1961, Castro declared his revolution to be socialist. The Fol lowing Day he humiliated the United states by capturing More than 1,100 exile soldiers in the Bay of pigs inva Sion. The world neared nuclear conflict on oct. 22, 1962, when former . President John f. Kennedy announced there were soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. After a tense week of diplomacy soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev removed them. Meanwhile cuban revolutionaries opened 10,000 new schools erased i lit Man claimed he had been assaulted at the monastery beginning in 1993. Vaccine for obesity Washington ? scientists said yesterday they have vaccinated rats against becoming obese causing the animals to produce antibodies against a hormone that stimulates hunger and fat storage. Although rats that received the vaccine against the Hor Mone known As Grelin did not eat less than a vaccinated control Ani Mals they gained less weight and Javier Galeano / associated press Fidel Castro pauses As he addresses a student group last wednesday. Tracy and built a Universal health care system. Castro backed revolutionary movements in latin America and Africa. But former liberties were whittled away As labour unions lost the right to strike Independent newspapers were shut Down and religious institutions were harassed. When social pressures increased Castro provided a safety valve. In 1980, people desperate to leave the Island poured into foreign produced less fat tissue the scientists reported. Deadly liposuction Framingham mass. ? a Man was arrested on charges of practising Medicine without a licence after a woman died during a liposuction procedure performed in the basement of a Home authorities said yesterday. Luiz Carlos Ribeiro a native of Brazil was to be arraigned in District court yesterday following the death of a 23-year-old woman sunday. Embassies and the cuban Leader let 125,000 countrymen flee to Florida by boat through Mariel port West of Havana. Fidel Castro Ruz was born in East Ern Cuba where his Spanish Immi Grant father ran a prosperous Plantation. His official birthday is aug. 13, 1926, although some say he was born a year later. ? associated press accused killer arrested Gaston . ? a Driver accused of shooting an 11-year-old boy to death during a Roadside argument with the child a Stepfather was arrested while on the run in Virginia police said. Robert Lee Vincent 65, was arrested sunday and charged with first degree murder. The boy was shot late thurs Day As he tried to intervene in the argument that began with words exchanged outside a convenience store authorities said. By Steven Edwards u United nations ? the United nations Security Council yesterday set an aug. 31 deadline for Iran to Roll Back its nuclear program or face possible sanctions marking a significant step in .-led Western efforts to deny the islamic Republic the ability to build a nuclear bomb. But while the move marked the first time the Council has made a legally bind ing demand on Iran it fell Short of threatening immediate sanctions for non compliance. Russia and China which both have close political and Trade ties with Iran used their veto bearing permanent coun cil seats to weaken the Western pro posed wording. The less direct threat passed 14-1, with the opposing vote cast by Qatar a Sheik Dom situated close to Iran that currently represents the Arab world on the Council. The Resolution demands Iran suspend its uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel reprocessing activities. It also says Iran must Shelve its nuclear research and development programs. Speaking during a trip to Miami . President George w. Bush said the Resolution sends a common message a uni fied message to the iranian but Iran which claims it Aims Only to develop nuclear Power in accordance with its right under the nuclear non proliferation treaty said it will resist what it sees As Western heavy handedness. ? can West news service 26 taken hostage in Iraq Baghdad ? gunmen dressed in military fatigues burst into the offices of the iraqi american Cham Ber of Commerce and a nearby Mobile phone company seizing 26 people in a Daylight raid in a mostly shiite area in the heart of the capital. 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