AFP Mexican authorities announced Monday a plan to seal leaks into a coal mine where 10 workers have been trapped for more than a week, after...
AFP President-elect William Ruto is one of Kenya’s wealthiest men but has long portrayed himself as “hustler-in-chief” — the champion of the poor and downtrodden. Defying...
AFP That list, which shows books whose sales have increased the most, had another Rushdie opus, “Midnight’s Children,” teetering between fourth and fifth place. Bookstores reported...
AFP Cuba’s government declared the “elimination” on Friday of a fire at a major fuel storage plant that left two firefighters dead and 14 people missing. ...
AFP One person died and dozens more were injured early Saturday as powerful winds hit a music festival near the Spanish resort of Valencia, causing the...
AFP Mexican authorities said Friday they were finally in a position to begin searching a flooded coal mine where 10 workers have been trapped for more...
AFP Venezuela and Colombia both named new ambassadors to the other country on Thursday, a first step in normalizing diplomatic relations after the recent inauguration of...
AFP Paraguay’s Vice President Hugo Velazquez announced his resignation Friday and pulled out of the running for next year’s presidential election after he was sanctioned by...
AFP An official Venezuelan delegation protested Thursday to Argentina’s embassy in Caracas against the grounding of a plane and its crew in Buenos Aires since June....
AFP More than two decades of devastating drought worsened by man-made climate change mean California must harvest, recycle and desalinate much more water, the state’s governor...
AFP Metallica, Mariah Carey and the Jonas Brothers will be among the acts performing in New York’s Central Park at this year’s Global Citizen Festival, the...
AFP Top Republican leaders flung their support behind former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday after an extraordinary FBI raid on his palatial Florida residence sparked...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Sunday for intensified efforts to save 10 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine, during a visit to...
AFP Gustavo Petro on Sunday took the oath of office as Colombia’s first-ever leftist president, before a crowd of hundreds of thousands at his inauguration in...
AFP Pope Francis on Saturday said the treatment of Indigenous people in Canada amounted to a genocide, after a six-day trip where he apologised to survivors...
AFP Fresh Russian strikes hit towns and cities across Ukraine’s sprawling front line, killing at least one person in the south and hitting a school in...
AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Saturday for the evacuation of the eastern Donetsk region which has seen fierce clashes between his country’s forces and...
AFP Honduras on Tuesday extradited Herlinda Bobadilla, a 61-year-old alleged gang leader arrested in a shootout that killed one of her sons, to the United States...
AFP Hundred dollar bills drifting in the air and buried under trash: a “green fever” has struck an Argentinian town where residents have gathered a small...
AFP The Ecuadoran public prosecutor’s office said Monday it is investigating former president Lenin Moreno over the disappearance of priceless artifacts from the presidential palace. The...
AFP The special peace tribunal investigating atrocities committed during Colombia’s decades-long conflict on Monday charged 19 soldiers with war crimes and crimes against humanity for murdering...
AFP Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a wide lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the presidential election in October, according...
AFP A 41-year-old man in Brazil has died of monkeypox, making him the first person outside of Africa to have been killed by the disease, local...
AFP A Brazilian woman and her two adult children, all suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, were freed by police following 17 years of captivity by her...
AFP Seventeen suspected migrants from Haiti died in a boat accident off the coast of the Bahamas, officials from the two countries said. Human smugglers are...
AFP Carlos Alcaraz will become the youngest player to reach the top five of the ATP rankings since Rafael Nadal in 2005 after powering into his...
AFP Tens of millions of Americans already baking in a scorching heat wave braced Saturday for record-setting temperatures to climb, while a major fire ravaged part...
AFP Authorities in the Ethiopian region of Somali on Saturday said they had “destroyed” fighters from the Al-Shabaab Islamist group, in a rare militant incursion from...
AFP The man accused of assassinating Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe is set to undergo an examination of his mental condition around the time of...
AFP Thousands of Hungarians marched in Budapest on Saturday to defend LGBTQ rights, a year after the passage of a law widely described as discriminatory. Brightly...
AFP Several Chadian rebel and political groups have said they are resuming peace talks with the country’s military government in Qatar after pulling out last week....
AFP Iran’s intelligence ministry announced Saturday the arrest of agents linked to Israel’s Mossad who entered the Islamic republic to carry out attacks against “sensitive” sites,...
AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that reviving the landmark 2015 deal on Tehran’s nuclear capabilities was “still possible”...
AFP Three people died as rival militias clashed for a second day on Saturday for control of a gold mine in DR Congo’s troubled northeastern province...
AFP Two Americans have died in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, the US State Department said Saturday, as fighting rages there after Russia focused its firepower on...
AFP Chinese anti-Covid vaccines are safe and have been given to the country’s top leaders, Beijing’s health authorities said Saturday, in a bid to reassure the...
AFP Ten people were killed and seven injured Saturday after the collapse of a section of a mountain at a coal mine in China, state television...
AFP Canada, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, is considering pushing back its greenhouse gas reduction timeline for its oil industry, the environment minister told media Saturday....
AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of routinely violating agreements after Moscow’s forces Saturday bombed Odessa’s port, a facility key to a grain export deal...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s Covid symptoms “continue to improve” and he is tolerating treatment well, his White House physician said Saturday, two days after the...
AFP Iran on Saturday carried out its first public execution in over two years, an NGO said, denouncing the practice as “medieval” as concern grows over...
AFP California’s governor signed into law Friday new gun control legislation modeled on a controversial legal approach used in Texas to curb access to abortions. Last...
AFP Cuba will hold a referendum on September 25 on whether to adopt a refreshed family law, which would include for the first time legalization of...
AFP The murders in June of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon were likely sparked when they sought to...
AFP Floods, heat waves and the longest drought in 1,000 years: Latin America is grappling with devastating climate change impacts that will only get worse, a...
AFP At least 18 people were killed in the latest police raid targeting organized crime groups in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, Brazilian police said Thursday. A...
AFP A captive-born jaguar released into Argentina’s Ibera National Park last year has given birth to two cubs — the first to be born wild in...
AFP Ciro Gomes, a former ally of Brazil’s leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, announced his candidacy Wednesday for October’s presidential elections, for which he...
AFP Ukraine’s first lady made an emotional pitch Wednesday to US lawmakers for more weapons to fight Russian invaders, saying she spoke for millions of parents...
AFP Ukraine must win its war with Russia before winter to prevent its neighbour from bedding in long term, presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said...
AFP Former Trump aide Steve Bannon believed he was “above the law” when he defied a subpoena to testify before lawmakers investigating the 2021 Capitol assault,...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that the West must remove restrictions on exports of Russian grain. “We will facilitate the export of Ukrainian...
AFP Belgium’s two-time Olympic champion Nafi Thiam trumped Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands in the event-ending 800m to claim world heptathlon gold on Monday. Vetter had...
AFP Mexico has resumed building part of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s flagship tourist train project, an official said Monday, despite a judge suspending construction on...
AFP Thirteen inmates were killed and two others injured on Monday in yet another bloody fight in a notorious Ecuadoran prison, law enforcement officials said. “Unfortunately,...
AFP Some 30 Peruvian women, including transgender women, gathered Monday to denounce the daily violence they suffer and demand action from the United Nations High Commissioner...
AFP Lawyers for a Mexican drug lord wanted by the United States for the murder of an undercover agent have launched a legal challenge seeking his...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he had interceded with US President Joe Biden on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, insisting that...
AFP The Brazilian Amazon lost about 18 trees per second in 2021 as deforestation in the country increased by more than 20 percent, according to a...
AFP Ivana Trump, the first wife of the former US president, died of “blunt impact injuries” to the torso in an accident, New York’s chief medical...
AFP Russian officials have recently visited Iran twice to assess combat drones, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Saturday, as Moscow looks to bolster its...
AFP Colombian forces have killed FARC dissident leader Nestor Vera and nine other rebels in a raid in the country’s southwest, the defense minister said on...
AFP A Russian court Friday acquitted a feminist and LGBTQ activist of “spreading pornography” online, in a rare decision for the conservative country’s courts. Yuliya Tsvetkova,...
AFP The World Health Organization said Thursday it would reconvene its expert monkeypox committee on July 21 to decide whether the outbreak constitutes a global health...
AFP President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for a “special tribunal” to investigate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, addressing a conference at The Hague focused on war...
AFP US President Joe Biden held joint investment talks Thursday with Israel, India and the United Arab Emirates, as Washington seeks to counter the global reach...
AFP Peruvian prosecutors said Wednesday they will investigate President Pedro Castillo for alleged influence peddling, overturning an earlier decision to wait until his term ended. The...
AFP Tourists have left footprints all over Peru’s Paracas Candelabra, an enormous hillside carving that dates from some 2,500 years ago, according to officials who have...
AFP A botanist looks up at a man dangling 20 meters (yards) above ground in a tree that belongs to an endangered species in Brazil’s Amazon....
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Tehran on July 19 for a Syria summit with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip...
AFP The United Nations said Tuesday it has no plans to start naming heatwaves in the same way as Atlantic hurricanes, as Europe faces scorching temperatures...
AFP Countries should step up their work on genomic technologies to combat diseases, and share that technology more quickly with developing nations, a new WHO report...
AFP A wildfire that has been burning out of control in California’s Yosemite National Park for three days is threatening its giant sequoia trees. The fire,...
AFP Around 40 migrants in an inflatable boat headed for Britain Monday after departing from the French coast, in a sign that attempted crossings continue despite...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday issued a decree to fast-track citizenship for all Ukrainians, more than four months into Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. ...
AFP Argentina’s new economy minister said Monday the country would honor fiscal deficit goals and other commitments made under a deal struck with the IMF to...
AFP There were “undeniable” flaws in security for former prime minister Shinzo Abe, the head of police in the area where the leader was assassinated admitted...
AFP The man accused of assassinating Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been arrested and named by police as Tetsuya Yamagami. Police say the unemployed...
AFP A fourth person has been arrested as part of the investigation into the killings last month of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert...
AFP Argentina on Friday made a $1.28-billion down payment on a $45 billion loan with the International Monetary Fund, the terms of which were recently renegotiated,...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Friday said he was “stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened” by the assassination of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who...
AFP The suspected killer of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe admitted targeting the politician and said he held a grudge against an organisation he believed...
AFP Former McDonald’s restaurants in Russia are facing a shortage of French fries due to a poor harvest and Western sanctions over Ukraine, a business newspaper...
AFP One Canadian woman died and a fellow citizen was injured when an avalanche roared down the side of snow-capped Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador’s highest peak, rescue...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s communications director is quitting, the White House said Wednesday, the latest in a number of departures of high-ranking officials ahead of...
AFP Haiti on Thursday marked one year since president Jovenel Moise was shot dead in his private residence, with no mastermind or motive for the attack...
AFP The EU will prevent Russia using a G20 meeting in Indonesia as a “propaganda forum” for its disinformation on the impacts of its war in...
AFP An Argentine court on Wednesday sentenced 10 former members of the military and police to life in prison for crimes committed during the South American...
AFP Women in Iran’s second-largest city will be banned from taking the Mashhad metro if they are not wearing a head covering, local media reported on...
AFP The World Health Organization will reconvene its monkeypox experts to decide if the worsening outbreak now constitutes a global public health emergency, its chief said...
AFP Colombia’s leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro on Tuesday proposed a “bilateral ceasefire” with the violence-stricken country’s last active guerrilla group, the ELN, in order to restart...
AFP Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Tuesday accepted the resignations of four cabinet members, the government said, just days after damaging protests against the cost of...
AFP US President Joe Biden sought to strike an optimistic note of unity in an Independence Day speech on Monday overshadowed by a mass shooting at...
AFP Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min has revealed he faced racism as a teenage footballer in Germany and was happy to get “revenge” when South Korea knocked Germany...
AFP The head of Russian mining giant Nornickel, Vladimir Potanin, has said he is ready to discuss a merger with aluminium group Rusal to create a...
AFP The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox had been reported to it in the current outbreak, 85 percent of...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday denounced the role of Greek companies in the export of Russian oil, seeing it as a situation which “does...
AFP Ukraine’s national flag has been reinstalled on Snake Island, a military spokesperson said on Monday after the country regained control of the territory seized in...
AFP Rebuilding Ukraine is the “common task of the whole democratic world”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday, insisting the recovery of his war-torn country...
AFP Argentina appointed economist Silvina Batakis as its new economy minister Sunday after Martin Guzman, the architect of a debt restructuring deal with the IMF, unexpectedly...
AFP Pope Francis has said he is “greatly disappointed” he cannot make a planned visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday...
AFP In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they’re visiting...
AFP Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday. The world’s largest...
AFP Ecuador’s government on Friday reduced fuel prices as part of a deal that ended more than two weeks of disruptive protests paralyzing the country. The...
AFP A mosque in Berlin on Friday became the first in Germany to fly a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT community, ahead of two...
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Friday he was made to sit for hours under a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he described his...
AFP Unemployment in Brazil, Latin America’s biggest economy, fell below 10 percent for the first time since January 2016 for the three months of March to...
AFP Representatives of Ecuador’s government and Indigenous groups signed an agreement Thursday to end 18 days of sometimes violent protests against high living costs and fuel...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Thursday called for an “exception” to the Senate filibuster rule so that Democrats can pass an abortion rights law, reversing...
AFP NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg pledged more support for countries in Africa and the Middle East as the alliance looks to compete with Russia and China’s...
AFP A Brazilian appeals court on Wednesday increased the amount of compensation President Jair Bolsonaro must pay to a journalist for making degrading remarks about her....
AFP A close ally of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro resigned as head of the Caixa Economica Federal public bank following accusations of sexual harassment, the government...
AFP Colombia’s Truth Commission, established to probe atrocities committed during the country’s near six-decade civil conflict, presented its final, 896-page report on Tuesday. The document is...
AFP Ecuador’s government has suspended negotiations with protesting Indigenous groups, President Guillermo Lasso said Tuesday, after a soldier was killed in an attack blamed by a minister...
AFP The number of registered gun owners in Brazil rose by almost six times since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power and eased restrictions, an NGO...
AFP The main bloc of Venezuelan opposition parties said Tuesday that their representatives had met with a visiting US delegation and that they were ready to...
AFP Washington announced steps Tuesday to implement the new sanctions on Russia as agreed by G7 leaders, targeting Moscow’s defense industry and banning gold imports from...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday promised his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that Russia “is committed” to maintaining its delivery of much-needed fertilizers to the...
AFP A toddler was among four people killed when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed, injuring hundreds of others, officials said Monday. One person died...
AFP The board of directors at Brazilian oil giant Petrobras on Monday approved President Jair Bolsonaro’s pick to be the state-controlled company’s chief. Caio Paes de...
AFP At least four people were killed and more than 300 injured on Sunday when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed during a popular...
AFP A truckers union in Peru has declared an indefinite strike from Monday after failed negotiations with President Pedro Castillo’s government over fuel prices. Peru’s government...
AFP Peru’s government on Sunday declared that a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections had begun to hit the country, which has one of the highest mortality...
AFP Violent clashes between Indigenous protesters and police continued for a second straight day in Ecuador’s capital Friday, after the country’s president accused demonstrators of seeking...
AFP President Joe Biden left the White House Saturday for a week of diplomacy in which he hopes to reinforce the Western alliance against Russia and...
AFP Bruno Pereira, the Brazilian Indigenous expert murdered in the Amazon with British journalist Dom Phillips, was given a moving sendoff Friday by members of one...
AFP Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has denounced as “unacceptable” an 11-year-old girl’s abortion of a fetus that was the result of rape. The girl, according...
AFP Workers at Chile’s state mining company Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, called off an open-ended strike Thursday after reaching agreement with the government. The...
AFP The bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were handed over to their families Thursday, nearly two and half weeks after...
AFP Venezuela has sentenced 24 military police officers who mutinied during anti-government protests in 2019 to as much as nearly 16 years in prison, a human...
AFP Two women and three children died in a Buenos Aires apartment building fire Thursday that saw 35 others rushed to several hospitals, emergency services said. ...
AFP Most children in Latin America and the Caribbean under the age of 11 are unable to understand simple written texts due to an “educational catastrophe”...
AFP A Brazilian former education minister accused of influence peddling, allegedly at the request of President Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested Wednesday, police and a defense lawyer...
AFP Eighteen police officers are “missing” following an attack by Indigenous protesters on a police station in Ecuador’s eastern Amazon region, the interior minister said on...
AFP US health authorities are expected to order Juul Labs to stop selling e-cigarettes in the world’s biggest economy, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The...
AFP Workers at Chile’s state mining company Codelco, the largest producer of copper in the world, went on an “indefinite” strike on Wednesday, unions said, protesting...
AFP A suspected drug trafficker known as the “Pablo Escobar of Brazil,” was arrested in Hungary on Tuesday after more than a year on the run,...
AFP Brazil’s leftist former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who heads the presidential election race, announced Tuesday that his priorities in power would be social...
AFP Colombia’s last recognized guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), said Monday it was ready to reopen peace talks with the government after Gustavo Petro...
AFP The head of Ecuador’s armed forces on Tuesday denounced as a “grave threat” to democracy the wave of Indigenous-led fuel price protests that have triggered...
AFP A Ukrainian court on Monday banned the country’s largest pro-Russian political party and seized its assets nationwide after the group was accused of undermining the...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency in three provinces late Friday in response to sometimes violent protests by Indigenous people demanding cuts...
AFP Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras announced Friday it is raising fuel prices, infuriating President Jair Bolsonaro as he faces an inflationary spike and a re-election...
AFP Four men who confessed to killing a Paraguayan prosecutor during his honeymoon on a beach in Colombia received 23-year prison sentences Friday, prosecutors said. Marcelo...
AFP The United States plans to propose a new initiative to address Pacific island issues next week as it scrambles to offset China’s thrust into the...
AFP The World Health Organization on Friday called on all nations to invest more in mental health, saying “the suffering is enormous” and has been made...
AFP Russia has already “strategically lost” its war with Ukraine, suffering heavy losses and strengthening NATO, the UK’s chief of defence staff said in an interview...
AFP A shooting at a church in the US state of Alabama left two people dead and one wounded Thursday, police said. It happened at St...
AFP Indigenous Ecuadorans used burning tires, tree trunks and stones Thursday to block access to the capital, Quito, on the fourth day of protests against high...
AFP No member of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was among the 19 crew of a Venezuelan plane grounded outside...
AFP Human remains were found buried at a site in the Brazilian Amazon during a search for a missing British journalist and an Indigenous expert, a...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro drew fresh criticism Wednesday for saying a British journalist missing in the Amazon was “disliked” for his reporting on the region...
afp A Colombian court on Wednesday ordered the two men in this weekend’s presidential election runoff to hold a public debate, something one of them —...
AFP The UN rights chief said Wednesday her office was investigating allegations that children are being sent from war-torn Ukraine to Russia and then offered up...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday recalled the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as he pressed Europe for further help in responding to Russia’s war...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rang the bell at the Sao Paulo stock exchange Tuesday to mark the start of trading in shares of newly privatized...
AFP Police in Brazil said Tuesday they had arrested a second suspect in the disappearance earlier this month of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous...
AFP Authorities combing a remote corner of the Amazon for signs of a missing British journalist and Brazilian indigenous expert are investigating a patch of earth...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell in May from the same month last year, but came in at the second-highest level on record for the...
AFP Colombia’s army has killed a Marxist rebel leader in the country’s southwest, President Ivan Duque said on Monday. Leider Johany Noscue, a dissident from the...
AFP Indigenous protesters blocked roads across Ecuador Monday to demand a fuel price cut, in the latest such demonstration amid rising inflation, unemployment and poverty in...
AFP Personal items belonging to a missing British journalist and an indigenous expert have been found in the Amazon region where the men disappeared one week...
AFP Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned a security summit Friday that “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow”, as concerns grow that China could invade...
AFP Authorities combing a remote corner of the Amazon for signs of a missing British journalist and Brazilian indigenous expert are investigating a patch of earth...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell in May from the same month last year, but came in at the second-highest level on record for the...
AFP Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, more than a year after her arrest for an alleged plot — dismissed...
AFP With wheat prices skyrocketing due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, major producer Argentina faces its “worst planting scenario in 12 years” of the crucial grain,...
AFP Brazil has confirmed its first case of monkeypox in a 41-year-old man who had traveled to Europe, the health ministry announced Thursday. Monkeypox is a...
AFP The bodies of all 14 men trapped by an explosion in a coal mine in northeast Colombia last week have been recovered, the country’s National...
AFP More than 100 people have sought medical treatment this week after suspected exposure to a pollutant in an area known as the “Chilean Chernobyl” for...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for Russia to be expelled from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, blaming Moscow for spurring the global...
AFP British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that any attempts to impose a “bad peace” on Ukraine, through granting territorial concessions to Russia, would be...
AFP Russia said Thursday it was ready to broker a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as Moscow seeks to reassert its influence on the world...
AFP Clashes between legal and illegal small-scale miners in a remote southern region of Peru left 14 dead, police said on Wednesday. The violence broke out...
AFP Vatican investments will from now on be scrutinised by an in-house committee on the orders of Pope Francis, following a scandal over the controversial purchase...
AFP Ukraine on Wednesday criticised comments by former German chancellor Angela Merkel who has insisted she was not naive in her dealings with Russian President Vladimir...
AFP Colombia’s army has shared unprecedented images of the legendary San Jose galleon shipwreck, hidden underwater for three centuries and believed to have been carrying riches...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for an official visit as other Latin American leaders gathered for a summit in Los Angeles,...
AFP Argentina’s president vowed Monday to pursue a special tax on company profits boosted by the war in Ukraine, a phenomenon he described as an “immorality”...
AFP Bolivian prosecutors said Monday they would seek a 15-year jail term for ex-president Jeanine Anez, who is on trial for an alleged plot — dismissed...
AFP A sharp economic slowdown and rising inflation threatens to swell the ranks of food insecure people in Latin America and the Caribbean by nearly eight...
AFP Beijing on Monday warned Australia to “act prudently” or face “serious consequences” after Canberra accused a Chinese fighter jet of dangerously intercepting one of its...
AFP Australia’s federal court ordered Google on Monday to pay more than $500,000 in damages to a politician after finding he had been defamed by a...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met troops on the frontlines in Donbas Sunday as heavy fighting raged in the eastern industrial region that Moscow has focused...
AFP Moscow warned Monday that it would respond to Western supplies of long-range weapons to Ukraine by stepping up efforts to push Kyiv’s forces further from...
AFP Russia’s army said Saturday that some Ukrainian military units were withdrawing from the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. “Some units of the Ukrainian...
AFP The death toll in an explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Colombia has risen to seven, while eight workers remain unaccounted for, the National...
AFP Emergency workers in Brazil ended their search Friday for victims of deadly floods and landslides that hit the country’s northeast, after finding the body of...
AFP At a Rio de Janeiro pastry shop, customers are waiting in line to buy waffles — but the chocolate-covered treats come with a twist that...
AFP The Kremlin said Friday that Russia had achieved some results from its military campaign in Ukraine, 100 days after Moscow sent troops into its pro-Western...
AFP Myanmar’s junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in...
AFP South Africa’s police minister on Friday decried a “brutal” surge in murders and other violent crime, in a nation that was already among the world’s...
AFP India defended its record on religious tolerance Friday and rebuked the United States for its own rights issues after a report accused Indian officials of...
AFP Russia accused Germany of “remilitarising” Friday, using language that summoned up its Nazi past. Germany’s government and conservative opposition struck a deal Sunday to release...
AFP Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia controls about one-fifth of his country, including ground gained over Moscow’s invasion, the annexed Crimean peninsula and...
AFP Rescuers were continuing on Wednesday to try to free 14 miners trapped for two days in a coal mine in Colombia following an explosion that...
AFP Colombia’s two remaining presidential candidates were almost neck and neck in a poll published on Wednesday, ahead of the June 19 run-off. In the first...
AFP Brazil’s economy grew by one percent in the first quarter of the year, the government said Thursday, though surging inflation continues to hurt the Latin...
AFP At least 33 people remained missing and 11 were confirmed dead Wednesday after Hurricane Agatha swept through Mexico, local officials said. The storm made landfall...
AFP Argentina announced on Tuesday that it has reached agreement with the Paris Club of creditor countries to defer repayment of a debt of more than...
