Cuba’s national assembly named former President Raul Castro to head the commission charged with carrying out changes to the Soviet-era constitution that would...
Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the presumptive next president of Cuba since 2013, when Raul Castro named the laconic former provincial official to the important...
The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution were Fidel Castro’s brainchild nearly 60 years ago, created to keep watch over a shaky regime – now, they are...
Cubans voted Sunday to ratify a new National Assembly, a key step in a process leading to the elevation of a new president, the first in nearly 60 years from...
Cuba Sunday designates the 605 members of its National Assembly, an electoral process without surprise since there are as many candidates as seats. But one of...
Cuba Sunday designates the 605 members of its National Assembly, an electoral process without surprise since there are as many candidates as seats.
Fidel Castro's oldest son was mourned in Cuba Friday after the unusually public announcement of his suicide following a long depression.
Omani Mahmoud bin Youssef Temtemi found himself in a pastoral predicament this fall – his neighbor’s flock of sheep had overrun his farm and gobbled up his...
Cuban President Raul Castro will step down in April 2018 straight after his successor is chosen by a top governing council, according to a vote Thursday in...
The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already, he says, warning that the insurgents have expanded their...
Opponents of the Cuban government are putting forward an unprecedented number of candidates for municipal elections in late October, the first step in a...
Cuba on Monday began a five-month political transition expected to end with Raul Castro's departure from the presidency, capping his family's near-total...
The Netherlands’ highest court Wednesday told the government it must fund an Islamic school in Amsterdam that authorities had tried to ban, tapping into a...
Turkey's main opposition party said Friday it would challenge at a top court a last-minute change to voting rules in last weekend's referendum on expanding...
Switzerland's upper house of parliament has rejected an initiative championed by a right-wing populist party to ban burqas and niqabs, the face- and...
In the Hernandez family, every generation has its own perspective on the Cuban revolution.
A top court in Greece has annulled an auction of broadcasting licences held in September because it was not overseen by the independent regulator, in another...
Five men went on trial in Corsica on Thursday over a mass beach brawl on the French Mediterranean island last month that reportedly began after tourists took...
A law banning the full-body "burkini" swimsuit in France would stoke tensions between communities and would be both unconstitutional and ineffective, Interior...