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    HAVANA, July 12 (AFP) - Fidel Castro, the ailing 83-year-old revolutionary leader who still heads Cuba's Communist Party, is to make a rare television appearance on Monday, the state-run daily Granma reported.

            The Communist Party mouthpiece said Castro, who last appeared in a video aired on television 11 months ago, would appear in a special edition of Mesa Redonda (Round Table) to talk about current events in the Middle East.

            Granma did not indicate whether the current affairs show was being run live or taped.

            Fidel Castro led Cuba for almost five decades before a health crisis led him to step aside as president in 2006 and hand over the reins to his brother Raul.

            Political columns in the name of Fidel Castro continue to appear regularly in the state media.

            Cuban media showed pictures of Castro over the weekend attending a function at a science center on Wednesday. It was his first known public outing since December.

            Five photos were published of Castro wearing a track suit -- his customary attire since relinquishing the presidency and his favored army fatigues -- greeting well-wishers at Havana's National Center for Scientific Investigation.

            The photographs emerged as Cuba began Saturday releasing a group political prisoners under a landmark church-brokered deal last week.

            If all 52 activists are freed as the government has promised, it would be the largest prisoner release of Raul Castro's tenure. RSS/AFP

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लरक्कै लर्क्यो रातो सारी भुंइमा, संगीसाथी सबै भैराछ भेला भन्देउ न कुन चांहि राम्री हामी दुइमा । धन कमाउने सपनामा ६ वर्षअघि कुवेत पुगेकी मकवानपुरकी एक महिला कुवेतको अस्पतालमा अचेत अवस्थामा रहेकी छिन् । नेपाली एकता समाज मलेसियाले आफनो ८ बर्षे कार्य अबधि पुरा गरी स्वदेश फर्किनु हुने नेपाली एकता समाजका एक बरिष्ट सदस्य प्रकास राईलाई धुमधामका साथ बिदाई कार्यक्रम सम्पन्न गरेको छ । सल्यान जिल्लावाट रोजगारीमा आई मलेसियाको निलाई क्षेत्रमा कार्यरत सल्यानवासीहरुले जनसम्पर्क समितीको गठन गरेका छन । प्रेम बुढाथोकी नर्वे । नेपाललाई विश्व सामु चिनाउने सपना बोकेर विश्व साईकल यात्रामा निस्केका बिश्व साइकल यात्री धकेंशोर बुढाथोकी नर्बेको ओस्लोमा आइपुग्नु भएको छ । मधु पौडेल,पाकिस्तान । एन एस एफ अर्थात् नेपलिज स्टुडेन्ट फाउन्डेसन ( नेपाली विद्यार्थीहरुको छाता सङ्गठन )पाकिस्तानको हालै बसेको बैठकले आफ्नो संगठनको अध्क्षय पदमा सर्बसम्मतीबाट अब्बास अन्सारीलाई नियुक्त गरेको छ । ५ सेप्टेम्बर । अमेरिकाको नेपाली गाउँ भनेर चिनिने भर्जिनियाको मनासस शहरमा विशाल नेपालीको उपस्थितिमा तिज महोत्सब भब्य रुपमा सम्पन्न भएको छ। सानु आज धेरैबेर रोइरहिन । जीवनको लामो भोगाइका उतारचढावहरु पार गर्दै आउदा आज ठूलो चोटको महशुस भयो । कुनै शिकारीको हातबाट बच्न सफल भए जस्तै उनको शरिर लगलग कापीरहेको छ ।