Leaders of Cuba's leftist allies and other developing countries descend on Havana on Tuesday for a mass rally commemorating Fidel Castro, the rebel who seized power in a 1959 revolution and ruled the island for half a century. Castro, who ceded control to his younger brother Raul Castro a...

Experts and elected officials on Monday dismissed Donald Trump's claim that "millions" of Americans voted illegally on Election Day, as the Green Party redoubled efforts to organize ballot recounts in three key swing states. The Republican billionaire's shock victory on November 8 saw him...

Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has made recommendations to President Fuad Masum and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri for reforming the Hashd al-Shaabi, according to statements issued Monday by the offices of both officials. The Hashd al-Shaabi is an umbrella group of Shia...

An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapons at a U.S. Navy helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action they described as "unsafe and unprofessional." The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity,...

The assailant who car-rammed and stabbed pedestrians at Ohio State University Monday, injuring nine before he was shot dead by police, was a young man of Somali descent, U.S. media reported. CBS News quoted a federal law enforcement official as saying the suspect "has been tentatively...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to end the US thaw with Cuba unless Havana makes concessions on human rights and opening up its economy. "If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate...

Real Madrid's James Rodriguez, the golden boy of Colombian football, has struggled to establish himself at Real Madrid since he burst into the limelight at the 2014 World Cup. However, with Toni Kroos, Alvaro Morata and Gareth Bale all out until next year with injuries, the door has opened...

Hundreds of pro-government Somali forces began moving toward the port town of Qandala Monday for an offensive against ISIS fighters who seized it last month, Qandala's mayor Jamac Mohamed Khurshe told Reuters. The pro-government forces includes militia fighters, soldiers form the...

A group of lawyers are seeking to launch a criminal case in Germany against Syrian President Bashar Assad over alleged war crimes committed in the city of Aleppo. The lawyers on Monday presented a criminal complaint against Assad, which they are submitting to German federal prosecutors....

Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested four people suspected of having links to an illegal migration network believed to have been used by ISIS to move militants to Europe, including those involved in last year's Paris attacks. A ministry statement said the four had links with...

(Sky News)- The city of music has fallen respectfully silent. Havana, usually a noisy and colourful Caribbean capital, has put on its mourning clothes for the departed "maximum leader". If some are openly distraught, the more general mood is one of sombre reflection as Cubans honour the...

OPEC was trying on Monday to rescue a deal to limit oil output as tensions grew among the producer group and non-OPEC member Russia, with top exporter Saudi Arabia saying markets would rebalance even without an agreement. OPEC experts started a meeting in Vienna at 0900 GMT and were due to...

The UN's expert on torture was Monday beginning a week-long visit to Turkey following claims prisoners have been ill-treated in the wake of the July failed coup. Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture, arrived in Turkey on Sunday and will speak with alleged victims and inspect detention...

The main hospital treating trauma victims from the battle for Mosul is overflowing with civilian and military casualties, according to a doctor there. Dr. Marwan Ghafuri of the West Irbil Hospital, the main triage center for trauma cases from the Mosul battle, said his facility is admitting...

Iraq's sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi'ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State's biggest stronghold. Forty days into the biggest ground offensive in Iraq...

The ability of Australian telecoms company Telstra Corporation (TLS.AX) to offset the fall in its traditional revenue streams by diversifying into a range of technology and other businesses is in doubt. So far, Telstra's funding of 44 startups since 2013, the A$235 million ($175 million)...

(The Guardian)- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who was widely criticized for fondly remembering Fidel Castro without mention of his human rights record, has defended his comments but said the late Cuban leader was a dictator. Trudeau sparked fury and online mockery after he referred...

Three California mosques received a letter calling Muslims "vile and filthy," praising President-elect Donald Trump and saying he plans to "cleanse" America, an association of Muslim-Americans said Sunday. The same short, anti-Muslim letter -- addressed to "Children of Satan" -- was sent in...

Brazil's President Michel Temer, together with congressional leaders, vowed on Sunday to block any attempt by legislators to grant themselves a corruption amnesty as he sought to defuse a series of scandals. In a rare weekend news conference, the president sought to reassure Brazilians that...

Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment. Now, most of them are Iraqi security forces who recaptured the Gogjali neighborhood earlier...