Castro to head constitution rewrite:

Residents look on as rescuers use a heavy digger to move rubble at the scene of a fivestorey collapsed building in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, on June 3. An official from Kenya’s Disaster Management Unit at the scene said that at least three had died, a number were injured and some were still missing, but that many residents of the

building had managed to escape before the building fully collapsed. (AP)

(ANPDH). “The blood spilled in Masaya has made it a day of mourning and pain for those citizens who simply wanted to exercise their right to protest,” the head of the rights group, Alvaro Leiva, told AFP.

“We are facing a situation of profound crisis in terms of human rights violations.” (AFP)

Cuba’s national assembly named former president Raul Castro on Saturday to head the commission charged with carrying out changes to the constitution that would provide legal backing to the island’s economic and social opening.

The nomination of Castro, 86, adds to signs that the presidential handover in April to 58year old Miguel Diaz-Canel does not herald a sweeping change to the island’s one-party socialist system, one of the last in the world.

Castro is slated to remain head of the Cuban Communist Party until 2021. The current constitution, adopted in 1976 during the Cold War and amended three times since, calls the party the country’s guiding political force — a definition that Castro has said will not change