Just three or four city blocks in all of Central Havana remained without electricity – an island of darkness in the Cuban capital’s sea of flashing lights, pounding reggaeton and jammed bars and cafes.

Germany has detected its first case of the new mpox variant, the Robert Koch Institute for public health said, adding that it viewed the risk to the wider population as low.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent new medical exams, which showed his condition is stable in comparison to previous assessments following a weekend head injury, his doctors said.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to capitalise on the killing of Hamas’ leader by securing the release of the Oct. 7 attack hostages and ending the war in Gaza.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in talks on Tuesday to capitalise on the killing of Hamas’ leader by securing the release of the Oct. 7 attack hostages and ending the war in Gaza.

Bob Vallier, a Paris resident who has mostly lived outside the United States for the past 30 years, has already voted in his home state of Michigan for the Nov. 5 election.

Junior doctors in India’s eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, in response to an appeal by the victim’s parents.

Britain’s King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia’s urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.

Peru’s former president Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Emotional farewells are a common sight at airports, but travellers leaving the New Zealand city of Dunedin will have to be quick.

Discrimination of women of colour is trending in the wrong direction, with surveying showing racism is still prevalent in corporate Australia.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make another push for a ceasefire when he heads to the Middle East, seeking to kick-start negotiations to end the Gaza war and also defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon.