Cuba to Observe Nine Days of Mourning for Fidel Castro

Cuba's Communist Party has decreed nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, in a directive that will largely shutter day-to-day life on the island nation until December 4 as Cubans commemorate Castro's life in a series of memorials and vigils. The plans were announced Saturday by the party's powerful central committee, hours after Cuban state television announced Castro's death. The broadcast said the 90-year-old former leader was to be be cremated, but it offered...

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