Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Tehran this week to meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shows Moscow's maneuvering.
Some 2,400 people were arrested during the weekend, and police investigators are poring over online videos and images to track down looters.
Threats of violence to politicians were "increasing, not decreasing," said Bridget McKenzie, a senator from the opposition Nationals who has an office in Haines's electorate.
Oil-rich Alberta was holding a nonbinding referendum on Monday on whether the western province should secede from Canada.
At least 73 people were killed when drones struck a market in the disputed Abyei region along the border of South Sudan and Sudan on Monday
Leo pledged on Sunday, in his first public event since the surgery, that he would slowly resume his usual activities as the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
The former taxi driver founded the Good News International Church in 2003, preaching increasingly apocalyptic sermons and urging his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.
The accusations came following an investigation into a deadly February speedboat incursion involving armed Cuban exiles who are now in custody facing terrorism charges.
"It's clear that there was a deliberate act here. This wasn't an accident, someone just skidding off the road," Australian PM Albanese told ABC News.
The sector's governor pushed to accelerate the formalization process for illegal and small-scale miners to improve working conditions, as fatal accidents are frequent in the country's mining sector.
US President Donald Trump has sought to warm ties with Russia and China as the two non-Western powers grow closer, a move that could lower global tensions but also raise alarms for US allies.
