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Thursday, 26 July, 2001, 22:43 GMT 23:43 UK
Crowds celebrate Cuba's revolution
Over one million Cubans took part in a march on Thursday marking the anniversary of the start of the communist revolution 48 years ago.
 Thousands of marchers crowded onto Cuba's Malecon coastal highway
 Authorities began bussing people into the heart of Havana from the early hours
 Marchers chanted anti-US slogans in protest at America's tough immigration laws
 Cuban leader Fidel Castro was accompanied on the march by the son of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Homeini, Hassan Khomeini
 His brother, and designated successor Raul Castro also attended the march
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