23/10/2012 10:42
International press at a glance
BBC
Cuba's revolutionary former leader Fidel Castro has written a strongly-worded article condemning persistent rumours that he is on his death bed.
USA Today
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed Monday with the country's judiciary over his right to visit the prison where a jailed aide is held, in a new sign of the leader's waning influence in his last year in office.
New Sky
At least 12 people have been killed and 60 wounded in a fire at a nursing home in southern Taiwan.
Reuters
Syrian rebels cast doubt on Monday on prospects for a temporary truce aimed at stemming bloodshed in the 19-month-old conflict, saying it was not clear how an informal ceasefire this week could be implemented.
BBC
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has announced new measures to tackle organised crime in Corsica.
Mail Online
Four people including a nine-year-old girl were killed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli today as gunmen exchanged fire, deepening a political crisis following the assassination of a senior intelligence official.
BBC
Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake in L'Aquila.
France 24
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the International Cycling Union on Monday in the wake of a US Anti-Doping Agency report accusing him of leading a "sophisticated" doping program.
The Guardian
Barack Obama went on the offensive over foreign policy in the third and final presidential debate, repeatedly accusing Mitt Romney of flip-flopping on major international issues but failing to deliver a killer blow to his opponent's resurgent campaign.