World leaders have paid tribute to Fidel Castro who has died at the age of 90.
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President Michael D Higgins says the controversial figure will be remembered as a giant among global leaders.
Mr Castro ruled Cuba for five decades, before standing down in February 2008.
His brother and the country's current leader, Raul Castro, says the socialist revolutionary passed away in Havanna overnight.
In March, Barack Obama became the first U.S President to visit Cuba for almost a century and the first since Mr Castro took power
