Cuba's Deputy Prime Minister, Ricardo Cabrisas, is in Iran for talks on ways to increase bilateral trade with Iran. Iran and Cuba are strategic political partners, but their trade partnership has been overshadowed by US sanctions imposed on both nations.

Toronto police say the human remains found in a construction dumpster outside a vacant home earlier this week belong to a little girl.

Mexican authorities have cleared a makeshift encampment of migrants in the northern border city of Reynosa that had grown over the past year to hold some 2,000 people, Mexico's migration institute (INM) said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Monday protested against a proposal by the Queen of Britain to put the overseas British territory under the direct control of the United Kingdom.

Canadian "freedom" protesters on Saturday staged a motorcyclists' rally in the capital, Ottawa, despite severe police measures in the city.

Canada's police have arrested several people in the capital, Ottawa, following a march by hundreds of bikers, pedestrians and cars against government overreach.

Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso on Friday declared a 60-day state of emergency, in three of the country's 24 provinces, citing a rise in crime.