cuba has postponed the historic transfer of its presidency role castro confirmed that he will stay on until april to once longer than planned due to the damage caused by hurricane castro and his late older brother fidel have ruled the country for nearly sixty years. british foreign minister boris johnson has confronted his russian counterpart over the annexation of ukraine and russian cyber hacking johnson clashed with the gay lover of a joint news conference with love of saying relations between the two countries had reached a low point visit to russia as a first by a british foreign secretary in more than five years human rights watch says syria and russian forces have stepped up their airstrikes on eastern ghouta near damascus the area is one of the last strongholds of rebels fighting the troops of president bashar al assad the rights groups released these pictures showing the attacks it says have killed dozens of civilians it says government forces have been