Cuba's ruling Communist Party has released a new set of economic guidelines that emphasize the slow-moving and limited nature of the country's reforms amid a sharp national economic downturn.
Brazil's suspended President Dima Rousseff is proposing to let Brazilians decide if they want to hold new, early presidential elections if lawmakers restore her to power.
The Islamic State terrorist group has displayed yet another one of its gruesome methods of public execution, killing six men in Iraq accused of collaborating with the U.S.-led coalition and Kurdish forces by boiling them to death in vats of tar.
A couple hundred vehicles of Islamic State (ISIS) fighters were allowed to leave the northern Syrian city of Manbij as U.S.-backed forces seized the town in recent days because the militants had civilians with them, according to a U.S. military official.
The Polisario Front movement seeking independence for the disputed Western Sahara is accusing Morocco of violating a 1991 cease-fire agreement by sending troops and equipment into the territory.
The United Nations is freeing up $50 million from its emergency response fund to bolster severely underfunded aid operations in six countries, including Yemen and Eritrea.
Venezuelan authorities say three National Guard soldiers are among 10 people convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 22 ½ years in prison for roles in smuggling 1.4 metric tons of cocaine to Paris in an Air France passenger jet.
The president of the Dominican Republic has been sworn in for a second term as leader of the country that boasts the strongest economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Austrian authorities have arrested nine Iraqi men on suspicion of rape for an attack on a German tourist in Vienna on New Year's Day, police said Monday.
A broadcaster has reported that the German government said in a confidential document that Turkey has become "the central platform of action for Islamist groups" in the Middle East.
Prosecutors in western Turkey have demanded a life sentence for U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of masterminding the failed coup, the state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
A knife-wielding man with psychological problems lunged at other passengers early Tuesday on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two, in an attack prompted by the victims' use of their cellphones, police said.
German officials say they've arrested a man believed to have sold the weapon and ammunition used by a depression-plagued teenager who went on a rampage at a Munich mall that left nine people dead.
A knife-wielding man with psychological problems lunged at other passengers early Tuesday on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two, in an attack prompted by the victims' use of their cellphones, police said.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow.
Russian warplanes took off on Tuesday from a base in Iran to target Islamic State fighters and other militants in Syria, the US military confirmed -- a move seen as a widening of Moscow's bombing campaign, while drawing Russia and Iran closer as the Obama administration is seeking greater cooperation with Moscow in its fight against the radical insurgents.
