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Cubas Communism doesnt work: Fidel

HAVANA: Cubas Communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source Fidel Castro. Fidel told a visiting American journalist and a US-Cuba policy expert that the islands state-dominated system is in need of change. Jeffrey Goldberg,a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine,asked Castro if Cubas economic system was still worth exporting,and Castro replied: The Cuban model doesnt even work for us anymore, Goldberg wrote Wednesday in a post on his Atlantic blog.

Envoys of US,UK,France meet Prachanda

Kathmandu: Amid a political crisis in Nepal,envoys of the US,Britain and France,the key donor nations,on Thursday met Maoist leader Prachanda and discussed the current stalemate in Parliament and issues like the extension of the tenure of the UN mission in the country. During the meeting,Prachanda and the foreign envoys discussed the political deadlock in Nepal and matters relating to the ongoing peace process and extension of the term of the UNMIN,Maoist sources said.