Cuba is dealing with another national blackout Monday, its third since the beginning of the year, the country's state energy company said.

Residents of a Kyiv apartment building hit a second time by a Russian strike greeted emergency responders with dark humor, volunteer Kateryna Tereshkova said.

Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei, 86, is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.

The president, who is headed to a NATO summit in Ankara this week, had imposed the ban himself amid concerns that giving Turkey the jets could allow Russia to learn about their stealth technology.

Senior Australian officials criticized China’s decision to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, describing it as “destabilizing” and expressing concern to Beijing.

Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosinak-Kamysz said Monday that the United States will send military troops back to Poland in the coming weeks.

A former economic development official in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing was sentenced to death Monday for taking bribes worth $325 million over three decades. Yang Youlin also was convicted of embezzlement,

Canadá designó el lunes a la compañía alemana ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems como su principal proveedor en la elaboración de hasta 12 submarinos, en lo que el primer ministro Mark Carney calificó como la mayor adquisición militar en la historia del país.