Castro nears retirement as Cuban president; successor proposed

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Raul Castro moved closer to retiring as president on Wednesday as the country's parliament proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace him, in a shift that will usher in the island's first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution.

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