Cuba carries Fidel Castro to final resting place and other top stories.

• Cuba carries Fidel Castro to final resting place

  

  A photograph of the late Fidel Castro is held up during a final homage to him at Antonio Maceo plaza in Santiago de Cuba on Dec. 3. (Desmond Boylan/AP) SANTIAGO DE CUBA — Fidel Castro will be interred Sunday morning here in Cuba’s second-largest city, alongside the tombs of Cuba’s most exalted national heroes. A military caravan carrying his ashes in a small, flag-draped cedar casket arrived in the city Saturday after a four-day journey across the island, where Cubans lined the highway wav..

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• Australian PM says he's confident Trump won't pull out of US refugee deal

  

  By Harry Pearl | SYDNEY SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Sunday he was confident a refugee resettlement deal with the United States would go ahead, despite White House comments which seemed to cast doubt about its future under a Trump Administration. White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters the deal to resettle in the U.S refugees currently held at Australian-funded offshore processing centers was reached with President Barack Obama, and it was th..

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• Italy Votes in Landmark Referendum

  

  ROME—Italians went to the polls Sunday in a pivotal referendum that pits the country’s center-left prime minister, Matteo Renzi, against a surging populist movement. The ballot, on proposed changes to the country’s constitution, is effectively a vote on Mr. Renzi’s overall performance and comes as mainstream politicians across Europe face challenges from antiestablishment forces fueled by economic discontent and unease over...

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• Europe|Austrians Vote for President in Test of Far Right's Strength

  

  Photo The presidential candidate Norbert Hofer in Pinkafeld, Austria, on Sunday. His Freedom Party contested a runoff election in May that he lost by just 31,000 votes. Credit Leonhard Foeger/Reuters VIENNA — In a closely watched election, Austrians voted on Sunday for a new president, the climax of a bitter yearlong tussle and the latest test of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim and populist forces rising across the Continent and in the United States.Norbert Hofer, 45, of Aust..

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• Fleeing Aleppo fighting, Syrians describe terrifying choices

  

  BEIRUT As Syrian government forces advanced into Aleppo's rebel-held al-Sakhour district, Hasan al-Ali said he faced the choice of staying put and being caught by the army, or fleeing into a shrinking rebel enclave under relentless bombardment.A father of three children, he opted for the latter, though food, fuel, water and medicine are running critically low in rebel-held areas, such is his fear of the Syrian government that insurgents have been trying to unseat for more than five years."I di..

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