Donald Trump gives underwhelming response to Fidel Castro's death

World leaders continue to pay tribute to Fidel Castro, the late former President of Cuba who engendered the birth of a Communist one-party state that remains in place after almost six decades.

Donald Trump, meanwhile, is just learning of his death. America’s shocked President-elect was for once apparently lost for words on Saturday when he shared his initial reaction - where else - on Twitter.

Fidel Castro is dead!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2016

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn declared Castro “a champion of social justice” and “a huge figure of modern history”. President Francois Hollande was more reserved in his praise, remembering him as “towering” figure who “incarnated the Cuban revolution, in both its hopes and subsequent disillusionment”.