| By AFP | Hervé Bar | Seven days without a single murder… The month of August marked a security record for Colombia’s second city Medellin,...
AFP Hundreds of Chileans, mainly students, protested in Santiago Tuesday, erecting burning barricades to mark three years since a social uprising they say has not yet...
AFP | Sebastian Smith US President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to make a law enshrining nationwide abortion rights his top priority if Democrats win their uphill...
AFP Around 1.5 million lives could be saved every year if the world worked together to more swiftly approve new cancer drugs, researchers said Tuesday. The...
AFP Former US president Donald Trump’s administration prevented health officials from providing accurate information about Covid-19 in a bid to back up his overly optimistic view...
AFP Argentina on Monday called on Qatar to arrest a visiting Iranian vice president over his alleged responsibility for the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos...
AFP The US Justice Department asked a judge Monday to sentence Donald Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon to six months in prison for refusing to testify...
AFP | Paula Ramon Jose was reunited with his wife and four-year-old child in the United States minutes after Washington shut its southern border to Venezuelans....
AFP | Pascale Trouillaud One is a 67-year-old who has been in and out of hospital over the past four years for gastric problems. The other...
AFP | Patrick Fort Emerging as potential oil powers while the world seeks to wean itself off planet-warming fossil fuels, poverty-stricken South American neighbors Guyana and...
AFP Brazil’s opposition slammed President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday as “depraved” for suggesting a group of Venezuelan girls that he visited in their home were prostitutes,...
AFP Leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro remains steady at six percentage points ahead of Brazil’s October 30 presidential...
AFP Former US president Donald Trump on Friday denounced the congressional investigation into the attack on the US Capitol by his supporters as a “show trial”...
AFP The gunman believed to have killed five people in North Carolina in America’s latest mass shooting is a 15-year-old boy, in critical condition after being shot by...
AFP The EU prosecutor’s office on Friday said it had opened an active investigation into the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines in the European Union but gave...
AFP | Hervé Bar Seven days without a single murder: The month of August marked a security record for Colombia’s second city Medellin, the onetime fiefdom...
AFP | Eugenia Logiuratto Posh-looking drivers in expensive cars are honking their horns on a beachfront avenue in Rio de Janeiro, blaring their approval at a...
AFP | Juliette Michel Recent unionization drives at Starbucks and Amazon have lifted morale in the US labor movement, but organizers have yet to transform election victories into...
AFP Most Venezuelan migrants trying to enter the United States from Mexico will be sent back under a deal announced as the neighbors held high-level talks...
AFP Mexican lawmakers have approved an extension of the armed forces’ public security role until 2028, fueling controversy over what critics see as the country’s militarization....
AFP A US jury on Thursday rejected the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at his former Florida high school, opting...
AFP | Marcelo Silva De Sousa A feisty and little-known woman senator has emerged as kingmaker in Brazil’s very close presidential runoff. Many Brazilians saw Simone...
AFP US officials on Wednesday held talks in Haiti on requests for international intervention to combat spiraling insecurity but President Joe Biden’s administration indicated reluctance over...
AFP | Nicolas Revise with Joe Prezioso in Newton, Massachusetts As Native Americans this week celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day — the holiday increasingly recognized in the...
AFP Case numbers in the global monkeypox outbreak have now topped 70,000, the WHO announced Wednesday as it warned that declining new cases did not mean...
AFP NASA said Wednesday it would try again to launch its mega Moon rocket on November 14 with backup dates later in the week. The uncrewed...
AFP | Agnes Pedrero China and Russia will lose a trusted ally in the UN Human Rights Council after Venezuela, which stands accused of serious violations,...
AFP There is not yet enough evidence to recommend Omicron-specific Covid-19 jabs over the original versions, the World Health Organization’s vaccine experts said Tuesday. Four variant-containing...
AFP / Issam Ahmed NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity’s ability to stop an incoming...
AFP | Charlotte Plantive The US Supreme Court heard an appeal Tuesday from a Texas man on death row who maintains his innocence and whose case...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday denied that a space cooperation agreement signed with Russia last year would help Moscow spy on North...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday condemned Russia’s missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, saying they “demonstrate the utter brutality” of Vladimir Putin’s “illegal war.” “The...
AFP | Margioni Bermúdez Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of 52 people missing after a landslide swept through a...
AFP | Lucie Aubourg After an extreme weather event, such as Hurricane Ian which devastated parts of Florida last month, most Americans choose to rebuild rather...
AFP Columbia University and its hospitals announced Friday they had reached a $165-million settlement with 147 patients of a former gynecologist accused by dozens of women...
AFP Haiti said Friday it had “formally” sought international assistance with a worsening security situation “which our national police cannot deal with.” Bocchit Edmond, Haiti’s ambassador...
AFP Meta warned a million Facebook users Friday that they have been “exposed” to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network....
AFP PepsiCo said Friday it will receive its first Tesla semi-trucks December 1, a vehicle Elon Musk has said can travel 500 miles on a single charge....
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday named the head of the national tax agency as economy minister, amid a simmering trade dispute with...
AFP One person died Thursday following violent clashes that started outside a soccer match on the outskirts of Buenos Aires before spilling into the stadium and...
AFP Elon Musk asked a US judge Thursday to suspend Twitter’s lawsuit over their troubled takeover negotiations after the embattled social media company balked at the...
AFP The United Nations warned Thursday of a possible explosion of cholera cases in crisis-wracked Haiti. The international body called for the creation of a humanitarian...
AFP | Yussel Gonzalez Gunmen attacked a town hall and murdered at least 20 people, including a mayor, in a southern Mexican state riven by turf...
AFP The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are getting old. Every day the hopes of finding their grandchildren, who were stolen and given up for adoption...
AFP A former coach of Brazil’s national gymnastics team has been handed more than a century behind bars for raping four athletes including at least one...
AFP A string of whale deaths in recent days in southern Argentina have worried scientists, who think a micro-algae could be to blame. From September 24...
AFP Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro received several key endorsements Tuesday for Brazil’s presidential runoff election, including from influential corruption buster Sergio Moro, his one-time justice minister,...
AFP | Javier Tovar To prevail in Brazil’s tighter-than-expected presidential runoff, leftist veteran Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will have to strike alliances with centrists, woo...
AFP New clashes were reported on Tuesday in an Ecuadoran prison where 15 people died in a riot the day before, the state prison administration authority...
AFP | Alberto Peña Hidden inside pristine forests in Chile’s deep south, known as the end of the world, lie potential early warning signs of climate...
AFP Powerful Hurricane Orlene headed Sunday toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, where it is expected to make landfall on Monday night, the US National Hurricane Center said. The...
AFP | Mariëtte Le Roux After an inconclusive first round of presidential elections, Brazilians woke up Monday to another month of uncertainty in a deeply polarized...
AFP Brazilians wore their loyalty on their sleeves, literally, as they turned out in large numbers Sunday dressed to flaunt their political preference in a polarized...
AFP An Argentinian court charged a man and a woman with complicity in the attempted assassination of Vice-President Cristina Kirchner last month, according to court documents...
AFP | Rodrigo Almonacid with Latin American bureaus Some spend crazy amounts, others line up at dawn or gather at informal swap meets — anything to...
AFP The bodies of 20 people were found following an attack on a convoy of cars with civilians near the town of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine,...
AFP | Andrea Figueras Ariso Uruguay was a pioneer in the legalization of recreational cannabis use, a move that helped to push many drug traffickers out...
AFP A fire broke out Thursday at Paraguay’s Superior Court of Elections, destroying thousands of electronic ballot boxes and other equipment only two months ahead of...
AFP | Mariëtte Le Roux Brazil’s deeply polarized election campaign entered the home stretch Thursday with incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula...
AFP US senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday urged Brazilians of all stripes to respect the outcome of presidential elections and reject political violence, in a message...
AFP | Gerard Martinez Suzanne Clarke wades through waist-deep water, struggling to reach her daughter’s apartment as she drags a kayak behind her. When she finally...
AFP | Gerard Martínez Hurricane Ian unleashed “historic” devastation in Florida, flooding homes, washing out roads and bridges and leaving millions without power, officials said Thursday, as President...
AFP Four years after President Jair Bolsonaro came to office vowing not to allow “one more centimeter” of protected Indigenous reservations in Brazil, native peoples accuse...
AFP Authorities were slowly restoring electricity in Cuba on Wednesday following an 18-hour power outage in the country caused by Hurricane Ian, which killed two people...
AFP President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned energy companies against using Hurricane Ian as an excuse to raise gasoline prices, a politically sensitive issue just six...
AFP Unequal access to new technologies, illicit trafficking and other threats to cultural heritage were among the issues on the agenda for international culture ministers who...
AFP | Eléonore Hughes In Pedra do Sal, the birthplace of samba in Rio de Janeiro, supporters chant “Ole, Ola, Lula” as they sway rhythmically, brandishing...
AFP Orders for big-ticket US-manufactured goods slipped in August, the second consecutive monthly decline, buffeted by the volatile military and civilian aircraft categories that moved in...
AFP It will be “difficult” for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space...
AFP Britain’s heir to the throne, William, and his wife, Catherine, on Tuesday made their first visit to Wales since becoming the new Prince and Princess...
AFP The White House on Tuesday urged Brazil to conduct a “free, fair” election next month, warning against violence and saying the United States will be...
AFP The death toll from floods that swept away a group of people at a religious retreat in western Venezuela has risen to eight, authorities said...
AFP The EU’s medicines watchdog said Tuesday it was assessing Moderna’s Covid-19 booster jab for new strains of the Omicron variant as fears grow of a...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged protesters to rally peacefully on Monday’s eighth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students — one of the...
AFP | Eugenia Logiuratto Rosangela da Silva, a sociologist and left-wing activist who married Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in May, has promised to give new...
AFP Three people died and four are missing after a boat sunk off the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, local sources said on Monday. There...
AFP | by Leticia PINEDA Cubans on Sunday will vote in a landmark referendum on whether to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, allow surrogate pregnancies and...
AFP | by Mathiew LEISER Parts of eastern Canada were waking up to damage from powerful storm Fiona on Sunday, as meteorologists said the worst weather...
AFP | by Anne-Sophie THILL Filleting a fish, lighting a fire or building an igloo: In Canada’s Arctic, Inuit youth are being encouraged to connect with...
AFP | by Sylvie LANTEAUME and Paul HANDLEY President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine if Russian “territorial integrity” is threatened has...
AFP | by Shaun Tandon and Nicolas Revise US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Friday for calm over Taiwan as he met his Chinese counterpart,...
AFP | by Sarah TITTERTON Bermuda assessed damage Friday after Hurricane Fiona brushed past the island overnight, causing flooding and leaving most of the population without...
AFP Toyota announced Friday it was closing its assembly line near Saint Petersburg, in a new example of supply chain problems dogging firms operating in the...
AFP More than 150 Central American migrants were found abandoned in an overcrowded truck in southern Mexico, authorities said Thursday. A routine inspection led to the discovery...
AFP | by Daniel Lawler The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe towards our home Solar System, capturing an...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s push for an end to secretive political spending by the super-rich died in the Senate on Thursday as Republicans voted unanimously...
AFP | by Leon Bruneau and Amelie Bottollier-Depois Global leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity amid fears of disastrous harvests next...
AFP A young woman lawyer was found murdered in Ecuador 10 days after going missing, the government said Wednesday, in the latest femicide in a country...
AFP The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Wednesday raised $14.25 billion at a donor conference led by US President Joe Biden, executive...
AFP The United States on Wednesday led pledges for $280 million to fight childhood malnutrition through the supply of ready-to-eat packets in nations suffering from acute...
AFP Hurricane Fiona churned toward Bermuda as a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday as Puerto Rico struggled to restore power and water after receving a...
AFP Walmart announced Wednesday it will hire 40,000 workers for the upcoming holiday season, far fewer than last year, as inflation weighs on US households and...
AFP Two people were killed and more than 3,000 buildings were damaged by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico on the anniversary of two...
AFP by Leon Bruneau and Amelie Bottollier-Depois World leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity, with fears mounting of a disastrous harvest...
AFP Hurricane Fiona battered the Turks and Caicos islands as a powerful Category 3 storm on Tuesday after leaving a trail of destruction in Puerto Rico...
AFP Forty-seven people in the northern US state of Minnesota have been charged in connection with a $240 million Covid relief fraud scheme, officials said Tuesday....
AFP | by Charlotte PLANTIVE A US judge on Monday threw out the conviction of a man who has served more than two decades in prison...
AFP | by Eugenia LOGIURATTO The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon so far this year has already surpassed that for all of 2021,...
AFP A high mountain patrol found the body of a missing Italian tourist who disappeared 80 days ago while hiking in the Peruvian Andes, police said...
AFP Colombia’s peace commissioner has met with leaders of a major dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in a possible step towards...
AFP Tropical storm Lester was carrying heavy rains and strong winds toward Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday, with meteorologists predicting it will make landfall over the weekend,...
AFP | by Juliette MONTESSE Camilla has taken on the role of Queen Consort to her husband King Charles III with a minimum of fuss after...
AFP Fifty or so migrants sent to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard in the northeastern United States as part of a political battle over immigration...
AFP Uber said Friday it was investigating a “cybersecurity incident,” declining to comment on reports a young hacker had gained access to the ride-hailing company’s computer...
AFP | by Ramon SAHMKOW Once a discreetly smiling presence at Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s side, First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro is increasingly wooing Evangelical Christian and...
AFP A Mexican army general has been detained in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, the government said Thursday — the latest arrest...
AFP | by Julie CHABANAS / Sebastian Smith A jubilant President Joe Biden announced a tentative deal Thursday to avoid a crippling strike by railroad unions...
AFP A motorist collided with a vehicle carrying Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as his motorcade passed through Kyiv, though the president was not seriously injured in the accident,...
AFP California filed a suit Wednesday accusing Amazon of using its market influence to prevent merchants from offering buyers better deals elsewhere online, in violation of...
AFP The US Department of Justice will accept the appointment of one of the judges proposed by Donald Trump as a “special master” in the investigation...
AFP Ken Starr, who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of US president Bill Clinton, died on Tuesday, his family announced. Starr, 76, died...
AFP The bodies of five people were recovered after a four-storey residential building collapsed in Jordan’s capital Tuesday, authorities said, adding that 14 more were injured...
AFP | by Robin MILLARD Queen Elizabeth II’s only daughter Princess Anne rarely lets her emotions show but the grief was etched on her face as...
AFP A wildfire raging out of control in Oregon grew in size Tuesday as residents faced evacuation orders and worsening air quality as multiple blazes scorch...
AFP | by Eugenia LOGIURATTO Wearing a black T-shirt stamped with the word “Bolsonaro” and a skull, Brazilian ex-cop Elitusalem Gomes Freitas takes aim with his...
AFP | by Leticia PINEDA Seated before a machine that checks cigar quality, Orquidea Gonzalez says she is proud to carry on the craft’s tradition and...
AFP | by Alice RITCHIE As preparations build for next week’s state funeral and with a procession of the coffin along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on Monday:...
AFP The Palace of Holyroodhouse and St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, where Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will rest in the coming days, are both steeped in...
AFP The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will be held at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am (1000 GMT) on Monday September 19, royal...
AFP | by Daniel Lawler and Isabelle Cortes Scientists said Saturday they had identified the mechanism through which air pollution triggers lung cancer in non-smokers, a...
AFP Netflix suspended filming of its British royals drama “The Crown” on Friday following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the company said. The acclaimed show...
AFP Mexican lawmakers on Friday approved a plan to put the National Guard under military control — a move that critics say hands too much power...
AFP | by John WEAVER Sporting events in Britain scheduled for Friday, including Test cricket and European golf’s PGA Championship, have been cancelled as a mark...
AFP | by Nicolas Revise and Alex Kent Donald Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud Thursday over a scheme that misappropriated millions of...
AFP | by Patrick FALLON A wildfire burning outside Los Angeles has doubled in size in less than 24 hours, firefighters said Thursday as they endured...
AFP | by Helen ROWE A rare palace announcement about Queen Elizabeth II’s health at 12:32 pm (1132 GMT) on Thursday prompted a dash to her...
AFP Apple launched new smartphones Wednesday at prices similar to recent models despite inflation and supply chain woes, while unveiling a premium digital watch with a...
AFP | by Patrick FALLON A ferocious heat wave scorching the western United States could finally begin to wane in the coming days, forecasters said Wednesday,...
AFP A stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula has been captured in crisp detail by NASA’s Webb telescope, revealing hitherto unseen features that deepen scientific understanding,...
AFP | by Huw GRIFFITH At least two people are dead and thousands have been ordered to flee a rapidly spreading fire in California, with the...
AFP Defense lawyers in a corruption trial involving Vice President Cristina Kirchner that resumed on Monday said prosecutors had violated Argentina’s constitution and its federal system....
AFP | by Paulina ABRAMOVICH / Paula BUSTAMANTE President Gabriel Boric vowed Monday to press ahead with efforts to replace Chile’s dictatorship-era constitution, hours after voters...
AFP An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in northern Argentina has claimed a sixth life, provincial health officials said. The latest victim, who died late Sunday, was...
AFP Chinese drug regulators have approved the world’s first inhalable Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based manufacturer CanSino Biologics, boosting the company’s share price by seven percent on...
AFP Argentine health officials said Saturday that four people in a clinic in northwestern Tucuman province had died of Legionnaires’ disease, a relatively rare bacterial infection...
AFP | by Ramon SAHMKOW For more than 20 years he lived alone in the Brazilian Amazon eating nuts, fruit and game — a symbol of...
AFP At least nine migrants drowned and dozens of others were rescued after attempting to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico into the United States,...
AFP Chileans head to the polls for a referendum on September 4 to vote on a proposed new constitution that would overhaul the country’s dictatorship-era system....
AFP | by Sebastien ASH G7 industrialised powers vowed Friday to move urgently towards implementing a price cap on Russian oil imports in a bid to...
AFP The James Webb space telescope has taken its first image of an exoplanet — a planet outside our solar system — as astronomers hail the...
AFP || par Philippe BERNES-LASSERRE Adulée comme une “mère” politique à la fibre sociale, ou honnie comme une populiste corrompue, Cristina Kirchner reste, sept ans après...
AFP Starbucks named Laxman Narasimhan, a veteran of PepsiCo and other consumer brands, as its next chief executive on Thursday. Narasimhan, who was most recently chief executive...
AFP A new hormone treatment improved the cognitive function of six men with Down Syndrome by 10-30 percent, scientists said Thursday, adding the “promising” results may...
AFP The Brazilian Amazon recorded its worst month of August for forest fires since 2010, with an 18 percent rise from a year ago, according to...
AFP It will soon be forbidden to carry a firearm, even concealed, in the famed Times Square district and other public places in the city and...
AFP Mexico will open lithium exploitation to private investors because there are insufficient public funds to develop the recently nationalized sector, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
AFP Earth’s concentration of greenhouse gases and sea levels hit new highs in 2021, a US government report said Wednesday, showing that climate change keeps surging...
AFP NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the week, an...
AFP The United States said Tuesday that a top Russian official has been put in charge of “sham” referenda aimed at annexing parts of Ukraine as...
AFP Texas authorities on Tuesday confirmed the first US death linked to monkeypox, but said they are still determining what role the disease played in the...
AFP The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years away, in a new...
AFP Mississippi officials declared a health emergency Tuesday after historic flooding damaged treatment systems and left 180,000 people in the state capital Jackson without safe drinking...
AFP Sony’s PlayStation 5 is already notoriously difficult to find, and on Thursday the popular console’s manufacturer said that it will also become more expensive for...
AFP Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has fathered 10 children, said on Monday the world needs to “make more babies” — and keep digging for...
AFP Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape. A new Colombian ambassador,...
AFP Assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed two journalists Sunday in Colombia as they returned from covering a carnival, police said. Both worked for a...
AFP Leftist Peruvian President Pedro Castillo replaced the leadership of the country’s national police Saturday, two weeks after anticorruption officials searched government headquarters in search of...
AFP Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement in a long-running lawsuit seeking damages from the social network for allowing third parties, including the company Cambridge Analytica,...
AFP As the costs of importing energy soars worldwide and climate crises wreak havoc, interest in nuclear power is on the rise with nations scrambling to...
AFP A major cyberattack has targeted government institutions in Montenegro, Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic announced, with Russia the chief suspect. The computer systems of several state...
AFP European Union nations are launching power saving drives as they seek to reign in soaring gas and electricity bills and conserve ever-more scarce resources following...
AFP The White House on Friday blasted the latest set of “radical” abortion restrictions in four more states run by Republicans, signaling President Joe Biden’s determination...
AFP Moderna said Friday it is suing rival vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging the partners infringed on its patents in developing their Covid-19 shot administered...
AFP Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug trafficker accused of masterminding the murder of a photojournalist in the northern border city of Tijuana in January,...
AFP Fresh fighting between Ethiopian forces and Tigrayan rebels has broken a five-month truce that had paved the way for the resumption of humanitarian aid and...
AFP The World Health Organization announced Thursday that a million people had died from Covid-19 in 2022, calling it a “tragic milestone” when all the tools...
AFP When Roman De La Cruz learned that some of his student debt could be forgiven, he breathed “a huge sigh of relief.” The 27-year-old, who...
AFP Marijuana use by young Americans reached record levels last year and the use of hallucinogens is also on the rise, according to a new study....
AFP The earliest known human ancestor walked on two feet as well as climbing through trees around seven million years ago, scientists said Wednesday after studying...
AFP Forest fires in Portugal have consumed more than 104,000 hectares (257,000 acres) of land this year, an official estimate said Wednesday, the biggest destruction for...
AFP Canada announced Tuesday tentative deals with Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz that would see the two European automakers tap into burgeoning North American supply chains as they...
AFP A US special election Tuesday is being viewed as the last bellwether of the public mood on abortion ahead of November’s midterms, as Democrats seek...
AFP Twitter misled users and federal regulators about glaring weaknesses in its ability to protect personal data, the platform’s former security chief claimed in whistleblower testimony...
AFP A journalist was shot dead Monday afternoon in southern Mexico, authorities said, shortly after posting online about the disappearance eight years ago of 43 students...
AFP Colombian President Gustavo Petro has named a former guerrilla comrade as the conflict-wracked South American country’s intelligence chief, according to an official decree published Monday....
AFP Portugal, hit by a third heatwave after weeks of wildfires, said Monday that it hoped cooler temperatures and increased air humidity in the coming days...
AFP US auto giant Ford confirmed Monday it is eliminating around 3,000 jobs, mainly in North America and India, as the company pushes to accelerate its...
AFP President Joe Biden’s Covid advisor Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert who became the face of the country’s fight against the pandemic, announced Monday...
AFP Portugal, hit by a third heatwave after weeks of wildfires, was on a 24-hour national alert Monday to counter the threat posed by more blazes,...
AFP A regional head of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence services has been found dead at his home in central Ukraine, the prosecutor general’s office said on Sunday....
AFP Cuba reported its first case of monkeypox Saturday in an Italian tourist who is in “critical” condition, the health ministry said. The patient, who arrived...
AFP Equatorial Guinea on Saturday denied Amnesty International’s accusations it had committed human rights violations during a crackdown on crime. The London-based rights group on Thursday...
AFP At least 32 people were killed and dozens were injured in two separate road accidents Saturday, each in places where collisions took place earlier in...
AFP A new poll ahead of Brazil’s presidential election in October shows former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintaining a significant lead over Jair Bolsonaro,...
AFP Apple is warning of a flaw that is allowing hackers to seize control of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, and is urging users to install...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got into an altercation Thursday with a social media personality who questioned and insulted him, grabbing the man by the shirt...
AFP Two children were killed and about a dozen other people injured on Thursday as a storm wreaked havoc in southern Austria, according to officials. The...
AFP Paraguay’s Vice President Hugo Velazquez, who resigned last week after being sanctioned by Washington for “significant corruption,” said Thursday he would remain in his post...
AFP The evening session of the European Athletics Championships scheduled to start at 1805 GMT on Thursday has been suspended because of a “severe weather warning”....
AFP Colombian emergency crews on Thursday rescued nine miners from an illegal coal mine that collapsed the previous day, officials said. The nine were brought to...
AFP The New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he was “surprised” the author...
AFP TikTok on Wednesday rolled out its battle plan against the deluge of misinformation expected to accompany the upcoming US midterm elections, a problem tech firms...
AFP Firefighters in Spain and Portugal were battling on Wednesday to control multiple forest fires across the Iberian Peninsula with blazes in the Serra da Estrela...
AFP Sweden’s government on Wednesday vowed to compensate households and companies for soaring electricity costs in the wake of the Ukraine war, to the tune of...
AFP Ecuadoran police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in a weekend blast that killed five people in the port city of Guayaquil and was blamed by...
AFP US equities went for a ride Tuesday, ending the day mixed after bouncing around for most of the session as investors digested solid retail company...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN chief Antonio Guterres will meet in Ukraine on Thursday, the United Nations announced....
AFP Walmart reported a jump in quarterly revenues Tuesday partly driven by inflation as the retail giant signaled it expects its US sales growth to moderate...
AFP Afghan university students will have to attend more compulsory Islamic studies classes, education officials said Tuesday while giving little sign that secondary schools for girls...
AFP The US Justice Department on Monday opposed requests to unseal the affidavit used to justify last week’s FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Several...
