AFP Fourteen miners are trapped in a coal mine in northern Colombia after an underground explosion, the mayor of the town said on Tuesday. A miner...
AFP Russian forces control half of the east Ukraine city of Severodonetsk, a Ukrainian military official said Tuesday, as Moscow’s army continues an unrelenting push deeper...
AFP President Joe Biden on Tuesday holds a rare White House meeting with the head of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, to discuss soaring inflation and...
AFP Paraguayan authorities announced on Monday they are looking for two German children that arrived in the country in November, in each case without the consent...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro defended Brazil’s federal highway police Monday after officers were accused of asphyxiating to death a man they forced into the trunk of...
AFP Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday called for increased military spending in light of the security threat posed by Russia as Spain marked 40 years...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Monday he would not send rocket systems to Ukraine that could hit targets well inside Russian territory, despite urgent requests...
AFP German judges and experts have arrived at the edge of a melting glacier high up in the Peruvian Andes to examine a complaint made by...
AFP Torrential rains drenching northeastern Brazil since Tuesday have left at least 44 dead and another 56 missing, the government said Sunday in an updated toll....
AFP Mexico’s energy regulator fined Spanish firm Iberdrola $467 million for improperly selling electricity to third parties in violation of domestic “self-supply” laws, a document published...
AFP Russian forces Saturday announced a latest successful test of their Zircon hypersonic cruise missile as Moscow steps up its Ukraine offensive. The missile was fired...
AFP Russia’s army confirmed Saturday it had seized the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, on the road to two key cities still under Kyiv’s...
AFP With its thong-covered beaches, flesh-flaunting carnival and sultry nightlife, Rio de Janeiro has a racy reputation, but it rose to a new level Friday when...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak via videolink with EU leaders on Monday as the bloc struggles to agree oil sanctions on Russia in the teeth...
AFP The World Health Organization cautioned Friday that some 200 monkeypox cases found in recent weeks outside of countries where the virus usually circulates could be...
AFP A fugitive member of Colombia’s Gulf Clan drug cartel wanted by the United States has been killed by police in the South American country, the...
AFP Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has gained ground against incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the vast South American country’s October election,...
AFP The United States will not invite representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or Nicaragua at the Summit of the Americas next month in Los Angeles,...
AFP Venezuela’s state bank said on Wednesday it would sell up to 10 percent of its shares as part of the government’s plan to inject capital...
AFP Colombia’s defense minister Diego Molano on Wednesday announced the “presumed death” of one of the main leaders of a dissident left-wing guerrilla group, killed earlier...
AFP A strong 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said, with Peruvian authorities adding there were no dead or injured....
AFP The WHO chief told member states Wednesday that he was fully committed to reforms needed to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse by staff, acknowledging more...
AFP Russia’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law scrapping an upper age limit for people signing up to join the army, in a sign Moscow may...
AFP The price of shares in Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras fell Tuesday in reaction to President Jair Bolsonaro firing its boss after only 40 days...
AFP Argentina on Tuesday announced an easing of foreign exchange controls for the shale oil and gas industry in a bid to promote investment and boost...
AFP Top allies of President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow was ready for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine in order to achieve the Kremlin’s goals...
AFP A police raid in a Rio favela early Tuesday left 11 people dead, authorities in the Brazilian city said. Military police said they came under...
AFP Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez and the first lady on Monday paid a fine of three million pesos (about $24,000), in the form of a charitable...
AFP A recession in the United States is not inevitable, President Joe Biden said Monday, while acknowledging the economic pain experienced by Americans as inflation soars....
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that 87 people were killed in a Russian attack earlier this month on a military base in a region...
AFP Russia said Monday it was looking over an Italian peace plan proposal to end the conflict in Ukraine. “We have received it recently and are...
AFP The United States will increase aid to Latin America to combat HIV/AIDS, First Lady Jill Biden said on Saturday during a visit to Panama. Biden...
AFP Ingrid Betancourt, who was abducted 20 years ago while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency and held captive by FARC rebels for more than six years, has...
AFP Popular Pacific Ocean tourist destination Easter Island will reopen to the world on August 1, after more than two years closed due to the pandemic,...
AFP Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday renewed his attacks on the country’s electronic voting system ahead of October elections in which he will face...
AFP Authorities in Ecuador on Friday arrested and re-imprisoned former vice-president Jorge Glas, after a court ordered he must serve out the rest of a corruption...
AFP Undefeated boxing star Floyd Mayweather will fight “Dangerous” Don Moore in a rearanged exhibition bout in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, organisers said on Friday. The...
AFP President Vladimir Putin on Friday called for “technological sovereignty”, saying Russia has been hit by numerous cyberattacks since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. “The number...
AFP Coats and scarves have come out prematurely in Brazil, as the south of the tropical country experiences a record-breaking cold spell, a menace for both...
AFP An Argentine court on Thursday found the state responsible for the massacre of more than 400 indigenous people almost a century ago, and ordered remedial...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to meet with billionaire Elon Musk on Friday, according to a government source. The meeting will be held in...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Thursday welcomed the leaders of Finland and Sweden in a strong show of support for their bids to join NATO...
AFP Overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed nationwide access to abortion in the United States, would be contrary to international human rights standards,...
AFP Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the front-runner in Brazil’s October presidential elections, took a break from campaigning Wednesday to marry his fiancee and fellow Workers’...
AFP The campaign team of leftist Gustavo Petro, leading in opinion polls in Colombia’s presidential race, on Monday demanded an “immediate” audit of vote-counting software less...
AFP A 112-year-old Venezuelan farmer has been officially recognized as the oldest living man following the death of a Spaniard who was the previous holder of...
AFP The White House on Monday uncharacteristically lashed out at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, after he openly criticized the Biden administration’s fiscal and economic policies on...
AFP Venezuela’s main opposition on Monday announced primaries in 2023 to elect a single candidate to stand against incumbent Nicolas Maduro in the country’s next presidential...
AFP Chile ordered the redeployment of its military to the Araucania region in the south of the country Monday, in the face of mounting violence linked...
AFP Sweden will apply for membership in NATO as a deterrent against Russian aggression, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said Monday, reversing two centuries of military...
AFP Russia’s defence ministry said Monday that an agreement has been reached to evacuate injured soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of...
AFP The home of Chilean Defense Minister Maya Fernandez was robbed by attackers who beat her son and threatened her husband, authorities said Saturday. Fernandez, a...
AFP Gunmen in Brazil opened fire outside a bar in the northern city of Altamira, killing four people and wounding four others, officials said Sunday. Security...
AFP A Russian soldier accused of killing a civilian during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine appeared in court in Kyiv on Friday ahead of the first war...
AFP Moscow on Friday advised its citizens against travel to the United Kingdom, citing London’s “unfriendly” stance as well as huge delays in visas for Russians....
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that French leader Emmanuel Macron is trying “in vain” to have a constructive dialogue with Russian President Putin, according to...
AFP Police in Rio de Janeiro have torn down a small memorial to the 28 people killed last year in an anti-drug trafficking operation in the...
AFP Colombia on Thursday became the first Latin American country to authorize assisted medical suicide for patients under a doctor’s supervision, according to a constitutional court...
AFP A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook Lima and a large surrounding area Thursday, alarming many locals but with no immediate reports of damage or injury, the National...
AFP Thousands of Argentines brought central Buenos Aires to a standstill on Thursday in another massive protest against the South American country’s soaring inflation. The “Federal...
AFP A journalist who was shot near May Day protests in the Chilean capital Santiago died on Thursday, a hospital official said, as the country’s president...
AFP China said Thursday it was ready to “fully support” North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official Covid-19 case and...
AFP Hundreds of Brazilian companies and environmental groups urged President Joe Biden to make good on US climate pledges as lawmakers in Washington prepared to debate...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro changed his energy minister Wednesday after repeatedly criticizing fuel-price hikes by state-run oil company Petrobras, blamed for driving inflation that is...
AFP Brazil’s inflation rate hit a 26-year high for the month of April, the government said Wednesday, as spiraling prices continued to defy the central bank’s...
AFP The global coalition against the Islamic State group gathered Wednesday in Morocco to coordinate efforts to prevent the jihadists staging a revival in the Middle...
AFP The global cost of cybercrime topped $6 trillion last year, as the coronavirus pandemic caused online activity to soar, the head of Italian defence, security...
AFP US consumer price inflation slowed slightly last month, jumping 8.3 percent compared to April 2021, according to government data released Wednesday. The annual increase in the...
AFP Four students have been arrested after a stampede at a Bolivian university left four of their peers dead and 85 injured, police said on Tuesday....
AFP China’s zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is not sustainable, the World Health Organization’s chief said Tuesday, adding that the WHO had told Beijing so....
AFP Overturning the right of US women to get an abortion would have steep economic costs, curtailing their earnings and pushing more children into poverty, Treasury...
AFP A stampede at a university in Bolivia Monday left four students dead and more than 70 injured when a tear gas grenade was detonated during...
AFP At least 43 inmates died on Monday in Ecuador’s latest grisly prison riot, the public prosecutor said. Authorities said a fight broke out between the...
AFP President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russian forces in Ukraine were defending the Motherland from an “absolutely unacceptable threat,” as he opened the annual parade...
AFP The United States government has reached agreements with 20 major telecom companies to cut costs or raise internet broadband speeds for tens of millions of...
AFP The Colombian government on Sunday reinforced a nearly 50,000-strong military deployment against a drug cartel that has burned cars and threatened people as reprisal for...
AFP Ukrainian forces holed up in the sprawling Azovstal steelworks in the Russian-controlled city of Mariupol said Sunday they would not surrender and vowed to fight...
AFP Belgium has refused to extradite Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa, his lawyers announced Friday, after Brussels recently granted him asylum. The former socialist leader was...
AFP A Colombian drug cartel has set fire to dozens of vehicles, retaliating over the extradition of the group’s leader to the United States on trafficking...
AFP An anti-Kremlin Russian journalist and municipal deputy said Friday he faced a fine of up to 100,000 rubles for discrediting the army amid Moscow’s military...
AFP Ukraine’s Azov battalion, leading Kyiv’s defence of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, accused Russian forces Friday of firing during a civilian evacuation of the huge...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a bill Thursday that would grant $600 million in aid to artists and cultural programs reeling from the coronavirus pandemic,...
AFP Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras on Thursday reported a first-quarter net profit of 44.6 billion reais ($8.6 billion), amid sharp criticism from President Jair Bolsonaro...
AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit, the German president’s office said on Thursday, three weeks...
AFP Brazilian presidential front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin bear equal responsibility for the war...
AFP Chinese authorities raised the number of people confirmed dead in a building collapse to 26 on Thursday, nearly a week after the block containing apartments,...
AFP A Russian army helicopter violated Finland’s airspace on Wednesday, the Finnish defence ministry said, as the country mulls an increasingly likely NATO membership bid. “The...
AFP Argentine paleontologists have announced the discovery of an apex-predator dinosaur that measured three stories from nose to tail and eviscerated its prey with sharp, curved...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has responded to less than three percent of deforestation alerts, a sign that “impunity reigns” in the destruction of Brazil’s forests,...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Tuesday the West must stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and accused Kyiv of not taking talks...
AFP The Ukrainian military said Tuesday that Russian forces had launched an offensive on the besieged Azovstal steel plant where Kyiv’s forces are holed up in...
AFP The UN said Tuesday that 101 civilians had been “successfully evacuated” from the tunnels of the Azovstal plant in Ukraine’s battered city of Mariupol, in...
AFP President Joe Biden said Tuesday that US voters will have to defend the “fundamental” right to an abortion if the Supreme Court scraps constitutional guarantees...
AFP Mexico’s Pato O’Ward seized the lead with 29 laps remaining and held off defending champion Alex Palou of Spain down the stretch to win Sunday’s...
AFP One person was pulled out alive Monday from the rubble of a building that collapsed three days ago in central China, state-run television said, with...
AFP The US hopes its diplomats will be able to return to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, where Washington closed its embassy days before the Russian invasion, “by...
AFP Donald Trump vented fury at protesters outside the White House in 2020, saying “Can’t you just shoot them?” according to then defense secretary Mark Esper...
AFP Three people were wounded by gunfire and two arrested in clashes at May Day demonstrations in Chile, police said. The shooting occurred during a Sunday...
AFP An initial group of around 100 civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President...
AFP President Pedro Castillo rushed back to Peru by car from a visit to Ecuador to avoid being impeached, after bad weather grounded his plane. Peru...
AFP Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso announced Friday he had decreed a state of emergency for two months in three provinces with the highest registered levels of...
AFP Ralf Rangnick says Manchester United must work hard to lure “future top stars” to Old Trafford despite their near-certain absence from the Champions League next...
AFP Peru’s government has announced a plan to buy the nation’s entire supply of illegal coca leaf — the primary ingredient in cocaine — for at...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Thursday demanded the resignation of his cabinet almost a year into a term that has been marked by a crisis...
AFP Protesters clashed with police in several Colombian cities Thursday as hundreds of demonstrators marked the one-year anniversary of a mass uprising against outgoing conservative president...
AFP UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi expressed “concern” Thursday about not having been able to access Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine since Russia seized...
AFP A former US ambassador has pleaded guilty to illegal lobbying for Qatar and accepting a lavish trip while serving as envoy to Pakistan, court documents...
AFP Brazilian mining giant Vale reported a first-quarter net profit of $4.45 billion on Wednesday, down 27.4 percent from the same period last year. The group’s...
AFP Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will be lower than expected at 1.8 percent this year due to the war in Ukraine, a...
AFP President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that if any other country intervenes in Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Russia will launch a quick-fire military response. Speaking...
AFP After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the jury for Rio de Janeiro’s colorful, cutthroat carnival competition on Tuesday named the winner of the 2022...
AFP Ten retired members of Colombia’s military began admitting to victims’ families on Tuesday their roles in the assassination of 120 civilians that were later presented...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Tuesday wielded his clemency powers for the first time, announcing pardons for three people, including the first Black man to serve...
AFP A new prison riot that broke out in Quito left 15 inmates injured while a vehicle exploded outside another penitentiary in the port of Guayaquil,...
AFP One in four children in Latin America and the Caribbean does not have vaccine protection against three potentially deadly diseases, a UN report said Monday,...
AFP A scuba diving boat sank Saturday off one of Ecuador’s ecologically sensitive Galapagos Islands but damage was minor and no one was hurt, officials said....
AFP Ecuador’s judiciary has submitted an extradition request to Belgium for former president Rafael Correa, who has been sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison...
AFP Brazil’s indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated recently under...
AFP Talks between Moscow and Kyiv to put an end to Russia’s near two-month military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine have stalled, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...
AFP Argentina on Thursday launched the construction tender phase for a gas pipeline megaproject that will eventually extend more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) from the...
AFP Pope Francis has announced that a meeting set for June with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been cancelled...
AFP US President Joe Biden announced Thursday a new package of $800 million in military aid for Ukraine, saying it would help Kyiv’s forces in the...
AFP Spain has shipped 200 tonnes of military equipment, including heavy transport vehicles and ammunition, to Ukraine, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday during a visit...
AFP At least six soldiers died in an explosives attack perpetrated by suspected drug traffickers in northeastern Colombia, the army said on Wednesday. Another five soldiers...
AFP Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday called on French voters to support incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential vote...
AFP Brazil’s indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated recently under...
AFP Colombian authorities are investigating the brutal murder of a homeless woman who had her baby stolen from her slashed-open womb, allegedly by a paid hitman....
AFP Moscow said Tuesday that Russian forces had opened a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian troops who agreed to lay down their arms to leave the embattled...
AFP Rising food prices that have been pushed even higher by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could force upwards of 10 million people into poverty, US Treasury...
AFP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rocked markets and prompted countries to impose retaliatory measures that could hurt the global economy, but no financial crisis has...
AFP Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who leads in opinion polls ahead of Colombian elections next month, signed an oath Tuesday not to expropriate property if he becomes...
AFP Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who has been serving a prison term for crimes against humanity committed during his presidency, was hospitalized Sunday for the...
AFP A four-headed mannequin carrying the faces of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was burnt in Caracas on Sunday as part...
AFP Brazil announced Sunday it will “in the coming days” lift public health emergency measures in place for over two years, citing a drop in the...
AFP Brazil’s leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, leading opinion polls for a victorious return to the top job in October elections, named centrist politician...
AFP Taiwan tech firm Acer said it was halting all business in Russia after Taipei expanded sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Self-ruled Taiwan has been...
AFP Authorities in DR Congo said six people died in a blast in the country’s troubled east caused by a suspected bomb. The previous toll from...
AFP The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq said it shot down an armed drone that targeted an air base, reporting no casualties...
AFP UK climate activist group Extinction Rebellion shut down London’s iconic Tower Bridge after two of its protesters abseiled over its sides. The activists were hanging...
AFP Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky asked the West to impose “Molotov cocktail” sanctions on Moscow, including a ban on Russian gas, and appealed for more weapons...
AFP Russia said Friday that it will add the UK think tank Chatham House to a blacklist of “undesirable” international organisations, calling it a threat to...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday paid his respects at the memorial service of ultra-nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose death at age 75 was announced...
AFP At least 50 people, including five children, were killed in strikes on a train station in the east Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the local governor...
AFP Ukrainian investigators began to exhume a mass grave in Bucha, opening the early stages of what police say will be a war crimes case targeting...
AFP Britain is sending Ukraine more Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles after an “unconscionable” attack on a train station, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Friday accused Russia of carrying out a “horrific atrocity,” after a rocket attack on a train station packed with conflict...
AFP At least 12 troops and four army auxiliaries were killed Friday in an attack by suspected jihadists on a military detachment in Burkina Faso, the...
AFP The United Nations on Friday urged Yemen’s warring parties to exercise “restraint” after they traded accusations of violations of a UN-brokered ceasefire. “I am following...
AFP Russia faces “decay” because of ever more stringent sanctions from the West while Ukraine has a “European future”, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen...
AFP Queen Elizabeth II, 95, who has been suffering from mobility problems, will not attend next week’s Maundy Day service which is normally a fixture in...
AFP The United States on Friday expressed alarm over a report that found security forces in northern Ethiopia committed abuses against Tigrayans that amounted to war...
AFP Peru restarted in-school classes for the first time in two years after they were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some 4.2 million children in...
AFP Ketanji Brown Jackson celebrated her rise “from segregation to the Supreme Court” at a White House event Friday marking her confirmation as the first Black...
AFP Peru on Thursday declared a one-month state of emergency on all its highways in a bid to clear road blocks set up by truckers protesting...
AFP Torrential rains and flooding have killed at least 12 people at a mining camp in mountainous northwest Colombia, with another two reported missing and more...
AFP Former Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, whose future became a major issue after he was toppled in a coup in January, has been...
AFP Building an East Mediterranean gas pipeline to Europe as an alternative to Russian energy would be too expensive and take too long to build, a...
AFP Russia on Thursday accused Ukrainian negotiators of changing demands since last month’s talks in Istanbul, claiming that Kyiv was not interested in ending fighting. Russian...
AFP The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for humanitarian access to Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol, and said over 90 attacks on health services...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukrainian authorities of being behind “crude and cynical” provocations in the town of Bucha as he spoke to...
AFP Chileans will vote in a mandatory referendum on September 4 to approve or reject a new constitution to replace the one enacted in 1980 by the...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have provided aid funds to artists and cultural programs hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic,...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s nominee for chief executive of state-run oil company Petrobras, economist Adriano Pires, withdrew his name from consideration Monday, media reports said....
AFP Brazil will hold its first tender for offshore wind energy by October, an environment ministry official announced Tuesday, saying the country has “unbelievable” potential in...
AFP The United States plans to seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council following apparent evidence of mass executions by Russian troops in Bucha,...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial over the alleged atrocities against civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, and said he wants...
AFP Brazil loosened its pandemic restrictions for international travelers Saturday, ending its Covid-19 test requirement for vaccinated passengers and scrapping a lengthy health questionnaire. Travelers will...
AFP China said Saturday it was not doing anything “to circumvent” sanctions imposed on Russia, following warnings from EU officials that any attempt to aid Moscow’s...
AFP Pope Francis said Saturday he was still considering a visit to Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv following invitations from the mayor and the president. Aboard the...
AFP US lawmakers backed the decriminalization of marijuana nationwide in a vote Friday that will eliminate punishments for providing or possessing the drug if is signed...
AFP US President Joe Biden met Wednesday with the parents of a former US Marine imprisoned in Russia and promised to work to end the “nightmare”...
AFP Human Rights Watch has called on Ukrainian authorities to launch an investigation into possible war crimes following the emergence of video footage that appears to...
AFP Pope Francis apologised Friday to Indigenous people for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, and said he hoped to visit the country in...
AFP Russian troops who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on February 24 began leaving the station and other exclusion zones on Thursday, Ukraine’s state nuclear...
AFP The United Nations launched a task force Thursday to pressure businesses to keep their emissions-cutting promises instead of masking progress with feel-good “greenwashing”. The group...
AFP At least 233 people died between 2019 and 2021 in Venezuelan hospitals due to electricity failures, a study published on Wednesday reveals. Oil-rich but crisis-wracked...
AFP A Brazilian lawmaker allied with President Jair Bolsonaro agreed Wednesday to be fitted with an ankle monitor after barricading himself inside Congress the night before...
AFP The Kremlin said Wednesday Russia will not immediately require its natural gas buyers to pay in rubles after Moscow said it will now only accept...
AFP Russian forces struck a Red Cross facility in the besieged and destroyed southern Ukraine port city of Mariupol, Kyiv and the aid group said Wednesday,...
AFP Russia’s anti-monopoly agency said Wednesday it was probing five leading sugar suppliers amid soaring prices and shortages in the wake of sanctions imposed on Moscow...
AFP At least 11 leftist rebels were killed in military operations on Colombia’s border with Peru, the army said on Tuesday. The rebels were suspected dissidents...
AFP White House records from the day of the attack on the US Capitol show a gap of almost eight hours in then-president Donald Trump’s phone...
AFP The United States still doubts that Russia is serious in talks with Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, after reports of progress...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from hospital on Tuesday morning, having spent the night at a military clinic in Brasilia after feeling unwell, the...
AFP The United States would spend $6.9 billion to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion and support NATO member countries under a budget proposal released Monday...
AFP An unusually long, intense and destructive rainy season in Ecuador has left 52 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials there said Saturday. In...
AFP Two German states on Saturday said they have outlawed public displays of the “Z” symbol used by the Russian army in their invasion of Ukraine....
AFP The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education won’t last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is...
AFP Joe Biden on Saturday in Warsaw met two Ukrainian ministers in the first face-to-face talks between the US president and top Kyiv officials since Russia’s...
AFP Russia’s defence minister reappeared on television images broadcast Saturday, after his two-week absence from view prompted questions from journalists. The defence ministry published a video...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro has gained ground ahead of Brazil’s October elections, but still trails well behind ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is seeking...
AFP Brazil is “clearly opposed” to barring Russia from the G20, the foreign minister said, as the US led a push to exclude Moscow from the...
AFP Christian Eriksen said Thursday he was “very pleased” to join up with the Denmark team, just nine months after suffering a cardiac arrest. Eriksen has...
AFP Russia’s Union of Journalists on Thursday accused YouTube of “censorship” and called for punitive measures, as fears mount that the US company maybe next in...
AFP Five people have been killed in an attack by armed rebels on an army base in the Central African Republic (CAR), regional officials said on...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian...
AFP Increasing levels of violence in Colombia are worsening the humanitarian situation for tens of thousands of people, the International Committee of the Red Cross said...
AFP The UN’s International Labour Organization said Wednesday it was halting all technical cooperation with Russia until it stops its war in Ukraine, further isolating Moscow...
AFP Russia’s ally Belarus said Wednesday it will expel most Ukrainian diplomats working in the country, accusing Kyiv of “interference” in its domestic affairs. “Belarus has...
AFP Brazilian opposition lawmakers called Tuesday for an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro and his education minister over accusations they inappropriately channeled federal funds to the...
