Sunday's runoff for leadership of the South American nation will pit Pedro Pablo Kuczynski against Keiko Fujimori.
As Venezuela falls deeper into an economic crisis, President Nicolas Maduro is facing a recall referendum.
But Sunni politicians have voiced concern that the presence of Shiite militias alongside the army could spark sectarian violence.
Castro, who succeeded his older brother Fidel nearly a decade ago, said he'll step down in February 2018.
"We will never accept the accusations of genocide," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, after Germany recognized the 1915-16 killings of Armenians as genocide.
Bosso is part of the Diffa region, which is home to many refugees and internally displaced people who have sought to avoid Boko Haram violence.
Terrorist groups are planning to carry out strikes where the nation’s citizens congregate in shopping areas, the U.S. embassy said Saturday.
Pope Francis has pledged zero tolerance for anyone in the Roman Catholic Church who abuses children.
Over 1.6 billion Muslims around the globe will celebrate Ramadan.
Washington and Seoul are reportedly in talks to install THAAD system in the Korean Peninsula to counter threats from North Korea.
The city of Raqqa, ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria, is the ultimate target of those seeking to destroy the terrorist group’s self-declared caliphate.
Citing China’s “unprecedented” actions in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter pushed Beijing to help improve security in Asia.
The prospect of Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in peace is gradually fading, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
On the 27th anniversary of the crackdown on student-led protests in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Taiwan said it could serve as an example to China.
Tokyo is worried that Chinese control of the waterway in the South China Sea would threaten Japan’s national security.
Mauricio Macri, 57, experienced arrhythmia in mid-afternoon Friday, but concluded his work schedule in the evening, officials said.
A cut from the current 9,800 troops would hurt Afghan government forces and bolster the Taliban, retired U.S. generals and senior diplomats say.
Concerns from current and former U.S. military and civilian officials come amid an Iraqi offensive to retake Fallujah from ISIS.
The total number of strikes carried out by the U.S. military in Yemen this year against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is now at nine.
Israel denies committing war crimes in Gaza and has kept the small coastal enclave under a blockade largely since Hamas seized control there in 2007.
At this weekend's Strategic and Economic Dialogue, U.S. officials will take up the matter of China’s relatively closed market for U.S. investment.
The U.S. Navy gave no immediate details on whether the targets were in Iraq or Syria, or what sort of targets were hit.
The Olympic refugee team highlights long-running conflicts in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"A vote to leave [the European Union] would be a terrible deal for the British economy," Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told the company's British-based staff Friday.
This deployment represents the Navy’s first under the Optimized Fleet Response Plan, which aims to establish seven-month trips.
New observations, carried out using the Hubble Space Telescope, indicate that the universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than previous estimates.
The Kuril Islands, also claimed by Japan, have caused tensions between Moscow and Tokyo.
A project, which could potentially make it possible to create human beings without biological parents, has raised ethical and legal concerns.
“We have many small and big enemies, but foremost among them are America and this very evil Britain,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech Friday.
The boat, appearing to be a large fishing vessel and carrying a “significant number” of people, sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday.
