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...
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...
