Juanita Castro, a sister of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro who has lived in Miami for decades, will not attend his funeral, reports AFP from Miami quoting…

AFP, PARIS: Millions of French voters were casting ballots Sunday to pick the presidential candidate for the centre-right Republicans party, with ex-premier…

AFP, MUSCAT: The UN envoy for Yemen has announced a new bid for peace talks between the government and rebels, after the latest ceasefire failed to end the 20-month conflict. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he was heading to Riyadh and Kuwait “to prepare for a new round” of talks, as he left…

AFP, KAMPALA: At least 55 people have been killed in fierce fighting that erupted in western Uganda between security forces and a separatist militia linked to a tribal king, police said Sunday. Police spokesman Andrew Felix Kaweesi said 14 police officers and 41 militants had died in the clashes in…

AFP, GOMA, DR Congo: At least 34 civilians were killed Sunday in ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said. “The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to the attack by a Nande ethnicity militia on the Hutu…

AFP, KUWAIT CITY: Islamist-dominated opposition groups and their allies secured nearly half of the Kuwaiti parliament’s seats, official election results showed Sunday, raising fears of fresh political wrangling in the oil-rich Gulf state. The opposition and its allies won 24 of the assembly’s…

 AP, Los Angeles: A civil rights group has called for more police protection of mosques after several in California received letters that praised President-elect Donald Trump and threatened Muslim genocide. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the same handwritten, photocopied…