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Cuba's Soviet-style economic model no longer workable: Castro

London, Sept.9 (ANI): Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that Cuba's Soviet-style economic model "doesn't even work for us anymore".

In an interview to the Atlantic Monthly magazine, Castro said that the modest reforms introduced by his brother, President Raul Castro to stimulate his country's troubled economy, appeared to be a step in the right direction. astro also criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for anti-Semitism and denying the Holocaust.

He criticized his own actions during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when he urged the Soviet Union to launch nuclear weapons against the United States, telling Goldberg "it wasn't worth it at all." (ANI)

PM holds meetings with Japanese ministers

Tokyo, Dec 14: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held a series of meetings with senior Japanese ministers at the start of a three-day visit to Japan aimed at strengthening the strategic and economic content of the relationship between the two countries.Both countries are working towards upgrading this relationship to a global partnership.Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari and Land Infrastructure and Transport Minister Tetsuzo Fuyushiba were among those who called on Dr.....
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