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Fidel Castro's rule of nearly five decades split many a Cuban family between exile and solidarity with the communist revolution — including his own.

Longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the bearded, cigar-smoking Communist revolutionary who infuriated the United States, inspired both loyalty and loathing from his countrymen and maintained an iron grip on Cuban politics for almost 50 years, died Friday at the age of 90.

Pakistan's military and officials say a group of militants have attacked a mosque at an army facility in northwest Pakistan, triggering a shootout in which four insurgents and two soldiers were killed.

Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90.

Australia is attempting to extradite from Turkey a man suspected of being a high-profile Australian recruiter for the Islamic State movement, the government said on Saturday.

Pakistan's military and officials say a group of militants have attacked a mosque at an army facility in northwest Pakistan, triggering a shootout in which four insurgents and two soldiers were killed.

Indonesian police said a suspected Islamic militant arrested earlier this week was making explosives more powerful than those used in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.

Wisconsin election officials on Friday accepted a request from Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate in the Nov. 8 presidential election, for a recount of the ballots in a state that was crucial to Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton.

Police and military personnel arrested 50 people in a massive operation in the capital suburb of Naucalpan, Mexican authorities said Friday.

A Toronto television journalist is believed to be Canada's first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city's major news broadcasters.

Costa Rica suffered Friday for the first time in its history a direct hit by a hurricane, which made landfall while taking an unprecedented route from the Caribbean across to the Pacific Ocean.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri and several members of his government welcomed Friday, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the families of female murder victims, and told them that putting an end to this scourge is now "state policy."

Thousands of taxi drivers held protests in this capital and other Chilean cities on Friday to demand that authorities force ride-sharing apps Uber and Cabify to operate under the same regulations as cabs.

A Toronto television journalist is believed to be the country's first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city's major news broadcasters.

Presidential hopeful Jill Stein's fund-raising push to pay for recounts in three rust-belt states that were crucial to Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election has already exceeded its original target, the Green Party said Friday.

Representatives of the 27 countries that make up the Latin American Energy Organization, or Olade, underscored the need to promote sustainable development in the region at a meeting here Friday.

Wailing and pounding their chests in grief, a dozen women clad in mourning black gathered around a tomb in the massive cemetery in Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf.

Chilean state-owned copper giant Codelco, the world largest producer of the red metal, turned a profit for the second straight quarter but still posted an $18 million loss for the first nine months of 2016.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama received Friday, together with her nephews and the two family dogs, Bo and Sunny, the Christmas tree that will be displayed in the Blue Room of the White House this year.