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Cuba has declared nine days of mourning after the death of former leader and Revolutionary Hero Fidel Castro, who died late Friday at the age of 90.  Mr. Castro was leader of the Caribbean Island nation from the Revolution of 1959 until his retirement in 2008 when he handed off power to his slightly younger brother Raul.  Replacing a mafia-riddled, corrupt, racist establishment with a far Left-leaning Communist system that brought education and health care to all, Fidel outlasted ten US presidents, dying only the final days of the eleventh - Barack Obama, who reopened US-Cuban relations. 

In that time, Fidel Castro survived more than 600 US-intelligence led assassination plots - including everything from US mafia hit-men, to exploding cigars and shellfish, to schemes to make his beard fall out.  Others included the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, and the right-wing terrorist attack on a Cuban passenger plane that killed 78 people.  His ability to survive these plots led to the joke of Castro refusing to accept a gift of a baby Galapagos Turtle, with a life span of 100 years:  "That’s the problem with pets," he said, "You get attached to them and then they die on you."

The Miami Cuban exile community reacted to news of Castro's death with crude gloating, as did dimwitted US president-elect Donald Trump.  More seasoned statesmen had better reactions:  "We extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people," said outgoing US President Barack Obama, who offered condolences to the Castro family.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Castro as a "family friend" before praising his "significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation".  French President Francois Hollande acknowledged the "hopes" and "disillusionments" of the Cuban revolution, and called for an end of the Cuban embargo by French-speaking nations.  The leaders of China, Russia, India, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador and other friends expressed their sadness over Castro's passing.

Castro's remains were immediately cremated on Saturday morning.  In Cuba, there is no statue, no streets, no schools or other official buildings named after Fidel Castro.. So, on Monday morning, mourners will line up at the Havana memorial to national hero Jose Marti - a poet and leader of Cuba's 19th century fight for independence from Spain - to pay tribute.  On Wednesday, the cremains will  begin a three-day journey from Havana to the Sierra Maestra mountains, retracing in reverse the victorious route taken by the rebel army he led in 1959.  A mass memorial is scheduled in Santiago De Cuba on 3 December.

Malaysian cops arrested a popular editorial cartoonist for under the Sedition Act for cartoons that allegedly insulted embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak, a key figure in a $US3.5 Billion corruption scandal.  Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque - who goes by the name Zunar - already faced nine sedition charges.  Najib denies the corruption allegations, but has used law enforcement to consolidate power and arrest and harass his critics.

For a fifth week, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans filled the central plaza in Seoul to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, who is linked to a close friend accused of influence peddling.  Organizers estimated at least 800,000 people were there - the biggest protest yet - and police aren't bothering to play down the numbers at this point.

One person is still missing and at least seven people died when a chartered fishing boat capsized in rough seas at Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, NZ.  Three people survived.