HAVANA, Aug 5: Cuban leader Fidel Castro is recovering satisfactorily from stomach surgery, the country’s vice-president said on Saturday, while government sources said he had started to eat and sit up in bed. Brazilian officials denied a newspaper report they had been told by Cuban authorities the veteran revolutionary had a malignant stomach tumour and may never be able to return fully to power. Vice President Carlos Lager, speaking on a trip to Bolivia, was the third Cuban official in the past two days to reassure the Communist-ruled nation that Castro was on the mend from surgery for internal bleeding....