Castro appears in public
Fidel Castro has appeared on television for the first time in four months.
Castro appeared talking animatedly, standing in a track suit during a meeting with Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh.
The Cuban leader has not appeared in public since emergency bowel surgery forced him to hand over power 10 months ago to his brother Raul Castro for the first time since coming to power in a 1959 revolution.
But he looked healthier and more alert than in the last video images shown of him in Cuba on January 30 during a visit by his leftist ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
He hugged Manh warmly at the end of the two-hour meeting.
A senior Cuban official said that Castro had almost recovered fully from several operations for an undisclosed intestinal condition that put his life at risk last year.
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