Haiti's provisional electoral council said Monday that news on presidential vote results had been delayed.

The announcement of preliminary results that was set for Tuesday now has been pushed back to Thursday amid reports of irregularities that have to be investigated, the council said in a statement.

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for lone wolf attacks against Western countries, in particular America, and praised recent Palestinian attacks against Israelis.

Zawahiri spoke in a video released on Twitter and published and translated Monday by U.S.-based SITE, which monitors violent extremist websites.

Britain and France are to strengthen police cooperation to dismantle people smuggling networks and combat undocumented migration, the French interior minister said on Monday.

Bernard Cazeneuve and his British counterpart Theresa May signed an agreement at a meeting in London on Monday night to increase cross-border cooperation in law enforcement.

As they digest the resounding victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party in Turkey's general election, residents of the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir say they want only one thing from the new government: peace.

A tentative peace had prevailed for two years, after peace talks between the government and the militant separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) yielded a ceasefire.

A remote-controlled bomb was discovered near the presidential palace in the politically charged Maldivian capital on Monday, but the improvised explosive device was safely defused, the military said.

Panic gripped the tiny capital as police cordoned off narrow streets and troops stepped up their presence amid heightened tensions following a blast aboard the president's speed boat in September.

The White House on Monday voiced displeasure at the "intimidation" of Turkish journalists during an election that bolstered the already strong hand of longtime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Just weeks before President Barack Obama meets his counterpart Erdogan in Turkey, spokesman Josh Earnest said the White House was "deeply concerned that media outlets and individual journalists critical of the government were subject to pressure and intimidation during the campaign."

Jeb Bush vowed Monday not to adopt the incendiary rhetoric of other Republican White House contenders, as he sought to reboot his floundering presidential campaign.

"I will do everything in my power to win this race, but there are some things some I'm not willing to do," Bush said at an appearance in Tampa, Florida where he unveiled a new campaign slogan "Jeb Can Fix It."

More than 100 homes were torched and several people slaughtered as sectarian violence flared in the Central African Republic capital this weekend ahead of a visit by Pope Francis late this month.

Military sources told AFP on Monday that "several people whose bodies were abandoned" had been shot dead or had their throats slit in a fresh outbreak of violence Sunday between Muslim and Christian militias.

A Russian military court on Monday jailed a man for 17 years for allegedly fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.

Gadzhi Magomedov was sentenced to 17 years in a strict-regime prison camp by the North Caucasus military court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.

The Russian airline whose Airbus plane crashed in Egypt killing all 224 people on board has a checkered history including another fatal accident and has not paid its staff for two months.

Kogalymavia -- which flies charter flights to popular destinations such as Turkey and Egypt -- on Monday blamed "external" factors for the crash and said its jet was in "excellent" condition.