Russian teams will remain banned from World Cup bobsled races this season, and presumably the sport's world championships as well, after one of sliding's governing bodies voted Tuesday to extend the sanctions stemming from that country's war with Ukraine.

U.S. and Cuban officials engaged in a stunning shouting match on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the latest in a series of public spats between the longtime adversaries over Washington's escalating economic campaign against Havana.

Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have been sent to Haiti in a string of deployments in recent days after four Salvadoran members of the UN-backed force in Haiti went missing, a security official in Haiti told Reuters on Tuesday.