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Castro's successor seen as unlikely to bring sweeping change to Cuba

SANTA CLARA/HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) - The man likely to become Cuba's next president is from a younger generation of leaders and has advocated modernizing the island but he is also a longtime Communist Party apparatchik who is not expected to push for sweeping political change. Source: Reuters World News

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Are you eating plastic?

Each year we produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic and by 2050 there will be more of it than fish in our oceans. Here are five things you can do to help reduce your plastic use. Source: Latest CNN News

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Britain's Corbyn under fire over anti-Semitism in parliament

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's governing Conservative Party took aim at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday, blaming him for fuelling anti-Semitism in his opposition party by failing to tackle a culture that has led to threats against some of his lawmakers. Source: Reuters World News

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The silencing of Malta's anti-corruption campaigner

VALLETTA (Reuters) - He ran towards the burning car barefoot across the field, oblivious to the mud and stones. The explosion had blown the grey Peugeot 108 clear off the road. Now the twisted remains sat ablaze about five meters into the field, a metal pyre of flame and smoke. Source: Reuters World News

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In the Sierra Maestra, Castro brothers' revolution lives on

SANTO DOMINGO, Cuba (Reuters) - In the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains near where Fidel Castro made his hideout as he led a guerrilla uprising in the late 1950s, Cubans say they are still grateful for the land reforms and modern amenities his leftist revolution brought. Source: Reuters World News

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Potential jurors needed for El Chapo trial. Maybe 1,000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge said Tuesday he planned to call 800 to 1,000 potential jurors for the trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sign of how complex it will be to try drug the Mexican drug lord on trafficking and conspiracy charges. Source: Reuters World News

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Robert Mahoney: The world's press needs to put Netanyahu on notice

Israel still refuses to learn the lesson that live fire is not a means of crowd control. Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja paid the price for that failure this month when an Israeli sniper mortally wounded him as Murtaja covered protests at the Gaza-Israel border fence. Source: Latest CNN News

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Chemical weapons experts enter site of attack in Syrian town

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Global chemical weapons inspectors finally reached the Syrian town on Tuesday where a suspected poison gas attack took place, days after the United States, Britain and France launched missile strikes to punish Damascus for it. Source: Reuters World News

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