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

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

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 tanker traveling off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz caught on fire early Tuesday morning after being struck by a projectile, the British military said. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the tanker had been hit near Limah,

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,

The Russian Bear-F plane "repeatedly approached" the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier, flying "unnecessarily close" and dropping sonar devices, according to the U.K.'s defense ministry.

After months of uncertainty, French ​far-right leader Marine Le Pen will learn on Tuesday from a Paris appeal court whether an electoral ban for illicit party ‌financing will prevent her running in next year's presidential election.