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Cuba: Fidel marks 90 with fresh call for world peace
Revolutionary leader condemns nuclear threat

CUBAN revolutionary leader Fidel Castro called for nuclear disarmament and world peace on his 90th birthday on Saturday.

Dignitaries, including Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, gathered in Havana for celebratory cultural galas in Mr Castro’s honour.

“The human species today faces the greatest risk in its history,” Mr Castro warned in an open letter to the Cuban people published by Communist Party of Cuba newspaper Granma.

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