Peru’s Congress late Wednesday elected legislator José María Balcázar as the country's eighth president in a decade, replacing another interim leader who was ousted the previous day over corruption allegations just four months into his term.

"We can state that Russia is trying to drag out negotiations that could already have reached the final stage."

The Cuban foreign minister visited Moscow on Wednesday as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages caused by a U.S oil embargo. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and was set to meet later in the day with President Vladimir Putin.

Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in el-Fasher that shows hallmarks of genocide against non-Arab communities. The fact-finding mission says

Kim attended a ceremony Wednesday to mark the presenting of 600mm-caliber multiple rocket launchers to the Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Police and rescue officials say a gas explosion has ripped through an apartment building in Pakistan’s largest port city of Karachi, killing at least 13 people, after part of the structure collapsed.

Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals