| By AFP | Argentine authorities have ordered the release of a woman who is among four people accused of involvement in the attempted murder of...
| By AFP | Two police officers were killed, two more wounded and prison guards taken hostage Tuesday in the latest wave of attacks in a...
| By AFP | Truckers and other protesters on Tuesday blocked highways for second day in support of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has yet to accept...
| By AFP | Independent experts investigating the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 raised concerns on Monday about apparent inconsistencies in an official inquiry...
| By AFP | Eugenia Logiuratto | Jumping for joy in a bright red dress, then tenderly holding her husband’s victory speech as he addressed a...
| By AFP | Peru’s environmental authorities announced new fines Monday against Spanish energy giant Repsol totaling more than $10 million — the latest sanction for...
| By AFP | Fran Blandy and Joshua Howat Berger | Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro maintained an increasingly loud silence Monday after his election defeat,...
| By AFP | More than 6,000 hatchlings of three species of endangered turtles have been released into lakes and lagoons in Peru’s Amazon basin to...
| By AFP | Former US president Barack Obama said Friday that democracy is at stake in next month’s midterm elections in the United States, as...
| By AFP | Héctor Velasco | Charisma and campaign strategy won’t be the only things in play when Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist...
| By AFP | Patrick Galey | Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century,...
| By AFP | More than 150 community leaders and rights defenders were murdered in Colombia in the first nine months of the year, the crime-stricken...
| By AFP | Some Covid vaccines may cause heavy menstrual bleeding, specialists at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) warned Friday, recommending that this be added...
| By AFP | Brazilian unemployment continued its downward trend, falling to 8.7 percent between July and September, according to official data released Thursday, three days...
| By AFP | A mother and her two children were killed in a landslide in Venezuela, an official said, as a deluge of rains has...
| By AFP | Héctor Velasco and Karla Pesantes | Entire neighborhoods run by gangs, prison bloodbaths and police overwhelmed by criminal firepower: Drug trafficking has...
| By AFP | Miguel Sanchez | Shane Cienfuegos, the first non-binary person to receive a gender-neutral identity document in Chile, says they feel a “great...
| By AFP | Anna Pelegri, Ramon Sahmkow, with Lujan Scarpinelli in Sao Paulo and Louis Genot in Rio de Janeiro | Marcelo feels it is...
| By AFP | Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benitez on Tuesday sacked his justice minister and the director of a women’s prison for allowing a coffin...
| By AFP | Kelly Macnamara | International climate pledges remain far off track to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a UN...
| By AFP | A cholera outbreak in Haiti is spreading fast, with the number of cases doubling to nearly 2,000 in a matter of days...
| By AFP | Sebastien Ash with Huw Griffith in Los Angeles | German sportswear giant Adidas said Tuesday it was ending its partnership with Kanye...
| By AFP | President Joe Biden got an updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shot Tuesday and urged Americans to follow his example ahead of winter, saying...
| By AFP | Mexican prosecutors have ruled out criminal action against the brother of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for alleged electoral crimes, the attorney...
| By AFP | Martín Silva | The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools contrasts sharply with the dazzling white of salt flats in Latin America’s “lithium...
| By AFP | Paula Ramon | When Mayra Flores made history this June as the first Mexican-born member of the US Congress, the Republican seized...
| By AFP | As winter approaches, the World Health Organization on Monday stressed the importance of staying vigilant as cases of Covid and influenza rise...
| By AFP | Anna Pelegri | On Holy Christ Avenue, in front of Bible Square, Brazilian businessman Gilberto Klais buoyantly hops out of an SUV...
| By AFP | Thousands of Colombians rallied nationwide Saturday against a proposed reform that would raise taxes on the upper classes to pay for social...
| By AFP | Léa Dauple | A conservative group known as “Moms for Liberty” is triggering a minor earthquake in Florida school board elections, hoping...
| By AFP | Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he would accept possible defeat in the second round of the presidential election on October...
| By AFP | Brazil’s election campaign has been an orgy of mudslinging, social media attacks and outright lies so outlandish they are sometimes comical. Here...
| By AFP | The Organization of American States said Thursday it will send a “high-level group” to Peru after President Pedro Castillo asked for the...
| By AFP | President Joe Biden on Friday predicted a final-hour shift in favor of the Democrats in the midterm elections, saying that the economy,...
| By AFP | Sebastian Smith | US President Joe Biden touted the rebirth of American infrastructure and manufacturing Thursday in a Pennsylvania trip aimed at...
| By AFP | Donald Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon faces possible prison time Friday, when a judge will set his sentence for refusing to testify...
| By AFP | Colombia, the world’s leading cocaine producer, broke its own record for coca leaf cultivation in 2021, a UN body said Thursday, as...
| By AFP | Facebook on Thursday added a method for people running groups to automatically sift out claims that have been debunked since being posted....
| By AFP | Juan José Rodriguez and Luis Acosta | Wading through knee-deep mud, some limping, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants battle against fatigue with their...
| By AFP | Nina Larson The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is too early to lift the highest-level alert for the Covid crisis, with...
| By AFP | Some 200 people were arrested and dozens injured as social inequality protests around Chile descended into clashes and looting overnight, police said...
| By AFP | Pascale Trouillaud | “Bolsonarismo,” the Brazilian far-right movement built around President Jair Bolsonaro, shares much in common with ultra-conservatives in power in...
| By AFP | Hervé Bar | Seven days without a single murder… The month of August marked a security record for Colombia’s second city Medellin,...
AFP Hundreds of Chileans, mainly students, protested in Santiago Tuesday, erecting burning barricades to mark three years since a social uprising they say has not yet...
AFP | Sebastian Smith US President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to make a law enshrining nationwide abortion rights his top priority if Democrats win their uphill...
AFP Around 1.5 million lives could be saved every year if the world worked together to more swiftly approve new cancer drugs, researchers said Tuesday. The...
AFP Former US president Donald Trump’s administration prevented health officials from providing accurate information about Covid-19 in a bid to back up his overly optimistic view...
AFP Argentina on Monday called on Qatar to arrest a visiting Iranian vice president over his alleged responsibility for the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos...
AFP The US Justice Department asked a judge Monday to sentence Donald Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon to six months in prison for refusing to testify...
AFP | Paula Ramon Jose was reunited with his wife and four-year-old child in the United States minutes after Washington shut its southern border to Venezuelans....
AFP | Pascale Trouillaud One is a 67-year-old who has been in and out of hospital over the past four years for gastric problems. The other...
AFP | Patrick Fort Emerging as potential oil powers while the world seeks to wean itself off planet-warming fossil fuels, poverty-stricken South American neighbors Guyana and...
AFP Brazil’s opposition slammed President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday as “depraved” for suggesting a group of Venezuelan girls that he visited in their home were prostitutes,...
AFP Leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro remains steady at six percentage points ahead of Brazil’s October 30 presidential...
AFP Former US president Donald Trump on Friday denounced the congressional investigation into the attack on the US Capitol by his supporters as a “show trial”...
AFP The gunman believed to have killed five people in North Carolina in America’s latest mass shooting is a 15-year-old boy, in critical condition after being shot by...
AFP The EU prosecutor’s office on Friday said it had opened an active investigation into the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines in the European Union but gave...
AFP | Hervé Bar Seven days without a single murder: The month of August marked a security record for Colombia’s second city Medellin, the onetime fiefdom...
AFP | Eugenia Logiuratto Posh-looking drivers in expensive cars are honking their horns on a beachfront avenue in Rio de Janeiro, blaring their approval at a...
AFP | Juliette Michel Recent unionization drives at Starbucks and Amazon have lifted morale in the US labor movement, but organizers have yet to transform election victories into...
AFP Most Venezuelan migrants trying to enter the United States from Mexico will be sent back under a deal announced as the neighbors held high-level talks...
AFP Mexican lawmakers have approved an extension of the armed forces’ public security role until 2028, fueling controversy over what critics see as the country’s militarization....
AFP A US jury on Thursday rejected the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at his former Florida high school, opting...
AFP | Marcelo Silva De Sousa A feisty and little-known woman senator has emerged as kingmaker in Brazil’s very close presidential runoff. Many Brazilians saw Simone...
AFP US officials on Wednesday held talks in Haiti on requests for international intervention to combat spiraling insecurity but President Joe Biden’s administration indicated reluctance over...
AFP | Nicolas Revise with Joe Prezioso in Newton, Massachusetts As Native Americans this week celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day — the holiday increasingly recognized in the...
AFP Case numbers in the global monkeypox outbreak have now topped 70,000, the WHO announced Wednesday as it warned that declining new cases did not mean...
AFP NASA said Wednesday it would try again to launch its mega Moon rocket on November 14 with backup dates later in the week. The uncrewed...
AFP | Agnes Pedrero China and Russia will lose a trusted ally in the UN Human Rights Council after Venezuela, which stands accused of serious violations,...
AFP There is not yet enough evidence to recommend Omicron-specific Covid-19 jabs over the original versions, the World Health Organization’s vaccine experts said Tuesday. Four variant-containing...
AFP / Issam Ahmed NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity’s ability to stop an incoming...
AFP | Charlotte Plantive The US Supreme Court heard an appeal Tuesday from a Texas man on death row who maintains his innocence and whose case...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday denied that a space cooperation agreement signed with Russia last year would help Moscow spy on North...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday condemned Russia’s missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, saying they “demonstrate the utter brutality” of Vladimir Putin’s “illegal war.” “The...
AFP | Margioni Bermúdez Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of 52 people missing after a landslide swept through a...
AFP | Lucie Aubourg After an extreme weather event, such as Hurricane Ian which devastated parts of Florida last month, most Americans choose to rebuild rather...
AFP Columbia University and its hospitals announced Friday they had reached a $165-million settlement with 147 patients of a former gynecologist accused by dozens of women...
AFP Haiti said Friday it had “formally” sought international assistance with a worsening security situation “which our national police cannot deal with.” Bocchit Edmond, Haiti’s ambassador...
AFP Meta warned a million Facebook users Friday that they have been “exposed” to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network....
AFP PepsiCo said Friday it will receive its first Tesla semi-trucks December 1, a vehicle Elon Musk has said can travel 500 miles on a single charge....
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday named the head of the national tax agency as economy minister, amid a simmering trade dispute with...
AFP One person died Thursday following violent clashes that started outside a soccer match on the outskirts of Buenos Aires before spilling into the stadium and...
AFP Elon Musk asked a US judge Thursday to suspend Twitter’s lawsuit over their troubled takeover negotiations after the embattled social media company balked at the...
AFP The United Nations warned Thursday of a possible explosion of cholera cases in crisis-wracked Haiti. The international body called for the creation of a humanitarian...
AFP | Yussel Gonzalez Gunmen attacked a town hall and murdered at least 20 people, including a mayor, in a southern Mexican state riven by turf...
AFP The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are getting old. Every day the hopes of finding their grandchildren, who were stolen and given up for adoption...
AFP A former coach of Brazil’s national gymnastics team has been handed more than a century behind bars for raping four athletes including at least one...
AFP A string of whale deaths in recent days in southern Argentina have worried scientists, who think a micro-algae could be to blame. From September 24...
AFP Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro received several key endorsements Tuesday for Brazil’s presidential runoff election, including from influential corruption buster Sergio Moro, his one-time justice minister,...
AFP | Javier Tovar To prevail in Brazil’s tighter-than-expected presidential runoff, leftist veteran Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will have to strike alliances with centrists, woo...
AFP New clashes were reported on Tuesday in an Ecuadoran prison where 15 people died in a riot the day before, the state prison administration authority...
AFP | Alberto Peña Hidden inside pristine forests in Chile’s deep south, known as the end of the world, lie potential early warning signs of climate...
AFP Powerful Hurricane Orlene headed Sunday toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, where it is expected to make landfall on Monday night, the US National Hurricane Center said. The...
AFP | Mariëtte Le Roux After an inconclusive first round of presidential elections, Brazilians woke up Monday to another month of uncertainty in a deeply polarized...
AFP Brazilians wore their loyalty on their sleeves, literally, as they turned out in large numbers Sunday dressed to flaunt their political preference in a polarized...
AFP An Argentinian court charged a man and a woman with complicity in the attempted assassination of Vice-President Cristina Kirchner last month, according to court documents...
AFP | Rodrigo Almonacid with Latin American bureaus Some spend crazy amounts, others line up at dawn or gather at informal swap meets — anything to...
AFP The bodies of 20 people were found following an attack on a convoy of cars with civilians near the town of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine,...
AFP | Andrea Figueras Ariso Uruguay was a pioneer in the legalization of recreational cannabis use, a move that helped to push many drug traffickers out...
AFP A fire broke out Thursday at Paraguay’s Superior Court of Elections, destroying thousands of electronic ballot boxes and other equipment only two months ahead of...
AFP | Mariëtte Le Roux Brazil’s deeply polarized election campaign entered the home stretch Thursday with incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula...
AFP US senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday urged Brazilians of all stripes to respect the outcome of presidential elections and reject political violence, in a message...
AFP | Gerard Martinez Suzanne Clarke wades through waist-deep water, struggling to reach her daughter’s apartment as she drags a kayak behind her. When she finally...
AFP | Gerard Martínez Hurricane Ian unleashed “historic” devastation in Florida, flooding homes, washing out roads and bridges and leaving millions without power, officials said Thursday, as President...
AFP Four years after President Jair Bolsonaro came to office vowing not to allow “one more centimeter” of protected Indigenous reservations in Brazil, native peoples accuse...
AFP Authorities were slowly restoring electricity in Cuba on Wednesday following an 18-hour power outage in the country caused by Hurricane Ian, which killed two people...
AFP President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned energy companies against using Hurricane Ian as an excuse to raise gasoline prices, a politically sensitive issue just six...
AFP Unequal access to new technologies, illicit trafficking and other threats to cultural heritage were among the issues on the agenda for international culture ministers who...
AFP | Eléonore Hughes In Pedra do Sal, the birthplace of samba in Rio de Janeiro, supporters chant “Ole, Ola, Lula” as they sway rhythmically, brandishing...
AFP Orders for big-ticket US-manufactured goods slipped in August, the second consecutive monthly decline, buffeted by the volatile military and civilian aircraft categories that moved in...
AFP It will be “difficult” for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space...
AFP Britain’s heir to the throne, William, and his wife, Catherine, on Tuesday made their first visit to Wales since becoming the new Prince and Princess...
AFP The White House on Tuesday urged Brazil to conduct a “free, fair” election next month, warning against violence and saying the United States will be...
AFP The death toll from floods that swept away a group of people at a religious retreat in western Venezuela has risen to eight, authorities said...
AFP The EU’s medicines watchdog said Tuesday it was assessing Moderna’s Covid-19 booster jab for new strains of the Omicron variant as fears grow of a...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged protesters to rally peacefully on Monday’s eighth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students — one of the...
AFP | Eugenia Logiuratto Rosangela da Silva, a sociologist and left-wing activist who married Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in May, has promised to give new...
AFP Three people died and four are missing after a boat sunk off the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, local sources said on Monday. There...
AFP | by Leticia PINEDA Cubans on Sunday will vote in a landmark referendum on whether to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, allow surrogate pregnancies and...
AFP | by Mathiew LEISER Parts of eastern Canada were waking up to damage from powerful storm Fiona on Sunday, as meteorologists said the worst weather...
AFP | by Anne-Sophie THILL Filleting a fish, lighting a fire or building an igloo: In Canada’s Arctic, Inuit youth are being encouraged to connect with...
AFP | by Sylvie LANTEAUME and Paul HANDLEY President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine if Russian “territorial integrity” is threatened has...
AFP | by Shaun Tandon and Nicolas Revise US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Friday for calm over Taiwan as he met his Chinese counterpart,...
AFP | by Sarah TITTERTON Bermuda assessed damage Friday after Hurricane Fiona brushed past the island overnight, causing flooding and leaving most of the population without...
AFP Toyota announced Friday it was closing its assembly line near Saint Petersburg, in a new example of supply chain problems dogging firms operating in the...
AFP More than 150 Central American migrants were found abandoned in an overcrowded truck in southern Mexico, authorities said Thursday. A routine inspection led to the discovery...
AFP | by Daniel Lawler The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe towards our home Solar System, capturing an...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s push for an end to secretive political spending by the super-rich died in the Senate on Thursday as Republicans voted unanimously...
AFP | by Leon Bruneau and Amelie Bottollier-Depois Global leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity amid fears of disastrous harvests next...
AFP A young woman lawyer was found murdered in Ecuador 10 days after going missing, the government said Wednesday, in the latest femicide in a country...
AFP The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Wednesday raised $14.25 billion at a donor conference led by US President Joe Biden, executive...
AFP The United States on Wednesday led pledges for $280 million to fight childhood malnutrition through the supply of ready-to-eat packets in nations suffering from acute...
AFP Hurricane Fiona churned toward Bermuda as a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday as Puerto Rico struggled to restore power and water after receving a...
AFP Walmart announced Wednesday it will hire 40,000 workers for the upcoming holiday season, far fewer than last year, as inflation weighs on US households and...
AFP Two people were killed and more than 3,000 buildings were damaged by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico on the anniversary of two...
AFP by Leon Bruneau and Amelie Bottollier-Depois World leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity, with fears mounting of a disastrous harvest...
AFP Hurricane Fiona battered the Turks and Caicos islands as a powerful Category 3 storm on Tuesday after leaving a trail of destruction in Puerto Rico...
AFP Forty-seven people in the northern US state of Minnesota have been charged in connection with a $240 million Covid relief fraud scheme, officials said Tuesday....
AFP | by Charlotte PLANTIVE A US judge on Monday threw out the conviction of a man who has served more than two decades in prison...
AFP | by Eugenia LOGIURATTO The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon so far this year has already surpassed that for all of 2021,...
AFP A high mountain patrol found the body of a missing Italian tourist who disappeared 80 days ago while hiking in the Peruvian Andes, police said...
AFP Colombia’s peace commissioner has met with leaders of a major dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in a possible step towards...
AFP Tropical storm Lester was carrying heavy rains and strong winds toward Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday, with meteorologists predicting it will make landfall over the weekend,...
AFP | by Juliette MONTESSE Camilla has taken on the role of Queen Consort to her husband King Charles III with a minimum of fuss after...
AFP Fifty or so migrants sent to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard in the northeastern United States as part of a political battle over immigration...
AFP Uber said Friday it was investigating a “cybersecurity incident,” declining to comment on reports a young hacker had gained access to the ride-hailing company’s computer...
AFP | by Ramon SAHMKOW Once a discreetly smiling presence at Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s side, First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro is increasingly wooing Evangelical Christian and...
AFP A Mexican army general has been detained in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, the government said Thursday — the latest arrest...
AFP | by Julie CHABANAS / Sebastian Smith A jubilant President Joe Biden announced a tentative deal Thursday to avoid a crippling strike by railroad unions...
AFP A motorist collided with a vehicle carrying Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as his motorcade passed through Kyiv, though the president was not seriously injured in the accident,...
AFP California filed a suit Wednesday accusing Amazon of using its market influence to prevent merchants from offering buyers better deals elsewhere online, in violation of...
AFP The US Department of Justice will accept the appointment of one of the judges proposed by Donald Trump as a “special master” in the investigation...
AFP Ken Starr, who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of US president Bill Clinton, died on Tuesday, his family announced. Starr, 76, died...
AFP The bodies of five people were recovered after a four-storey residential building collapsed in Jordan’s capital Tuesday, authorities said, adding that 14 more were injured...
AFP | by Robin MILLARD Queen Elizabeth II’s only daughter Princess Anne rarely lets her emotions show but the grief was etched on her face as...
AFP A wildfire raging out of control in Oregon grew in size Tuesday as residents faced evacuation orders and worsening air quality as multiple blazes scorch...
AFP | by Eugenia LOGIURATTO Wearing a black T-shirt stamped with the word “Bolsonaro” and a skull, Brazilian ex-cop Elitusalem Gomes Freitas takes aim with his...
AFP | by Leticia PINEDA Seated before a machine that checks cigar quality, Orquidea Gonzalez says she is proud to carry on the craft’s tradition and...
AFP | by Alice RITCHIE As preparations build for next week’s state funeral and with a procession of the coffin along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on Monday:...
AFP The Palace of Holyroodhouse and St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, where Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will rest in the coming days, are both steeped in...
AFP The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will be held at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am (1000 GMT) on Monday September 19, royal...
AFP | by Daniel Lawler and Isabelle Cortes Scientists said Saturday they had identified the mechanism through which air pollution triggers lung cancer in non-smokers, a...
AFP Netflix suspended filming of its British royals drama “The Crown” on Friday following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the company said. The acclaimed show...
AFP Mexican lawmakers on Friday approved a plan to put the National Guard under military control — a move that critics say hands too much power...
AFP | by John WEAVER Sporting events in Britain scheduled for Friday, including Test cricket and European golf’s PGA Championship, have been cancelled as a mark...
AFP | by Nicolas Revise and Alex Kent Donald Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud Thursday over a scheme that misappropriated millions of...
AFP | by Patrick FALLON A wildfire burning outside Los Angeles has doubled in size in less than 24 hours, firefighters said Thursday as they endured...
AFP | by Helen ROWE A rare palace announcement about Queen Elizabeth II’s health at 12:32 pm (1132 GMT) on Thursday prompted a dash to her...
AFP Apple launched new smartphones Wednesday at prices similar to recent models despite inflation and supply chain woes, while unveiling a premium digital watch with a...
AFP | by Patrick FALLON A ferocious heat wave scorching the western United States could finally begin to wane in the coming days, forecasters said Wednesday,...
AFP A stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula has been captured in crisp detail by NASA’s Webb telescope, revealing hitherto unseen features that deepen scientific understanding,...
AFP | by Huw GRIFFITH At least two people are dead and thousands have been ordered to flee a rapidly spreading fire in California, with the...
AFP Defense lawyers in a corruption trial involving Vice President Cristina Kirchner that resumed on Monday said prosecutors had violated Argentina’s constitution and its federal system....
AFP | by Paulina ABRAMOVICH / Paula BUSTAMANTE President Gabriel Boric vowed Monday to press ahead with efforts to replace Chile’s dictatorship-era constitution, hours after voters...
AFP An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in northern Argentina has claimed a sixth life, provincial health officials said. The latest victim, who died late Sunday, was...
AFP Chinese drug regulators have approved the world’s first inhalable Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based manufacturer CanSino Biologics, boosting the company’s share price by seven percent on...
AFP Argentine health officials said Saturday that four people in a clinic in northwestern Tucuman province had died of Legionnaires’ disease, a relatively rare bacterial infection...
AFP | by Ramon SAHMKOW For more than 20 years he lived alone in the Brazilian Amazon eating nuts, fruit and game — a symbol of...
AFP At least nine migrants drowned and dozens of others were rescued after attempting to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico into the United States,...
AFP Chileans head to the polls for a referendum on September 4 to vote on a proposed new constitution that would overhaul the country’s dictatorship-era system....
AFP | by Sebastien ASH G7 industrialised powers vowed Friday to move urgently towards implementing a price cap on Russian oil imports in a bid to...
AFP The James Webb space telescope has taken its first image of an exoplanet — a planet outside our solar system — as astronomers hail the...
AFP || par Philippe BERNES-LASSERRE Adulée comme une “mère” politique à la fibre sociale, ou honnie comme une populiste corrompue, Cristina Kirchner reste, sept ans après...
AFP Starbucks named Laxman Narasimhan, a veteran of PepsiCo and other consumer brands, as its next chief executive on Thursday. Narasimhan, who was most recently chief executive...
AFP A new hormone treatment improved the cognitive function of six men with Down Syndrome by 10-30 percent, scientists said Thursday, adding the “promising” results may...
AFP The Brazilian Amazon recorded its worst month of August for forest fires since 2010, with an 18 percent rise from a year ago, according to...
AFP It will soon be forbidden to carry a firearm, even concealed, in the famed Times Square district and other public places in the city and...
AFP Mexico will open lithium exploitation to private investors because there are insufficient public funds to develop the recently nationalized sector, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
AFP Earth’s concentration of greenhouse gases and sea levels hit new highs in 2021, a US government report said Wednesday, showing that climate change keeps surging...
AFP NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the week, an...
AFP The United States said Tuesday that a top Russian official has been put in charge of “sham” referenda aimed at annexing parts of Ukraine as...
AFP Texas authorities on Tuesday confirmed the first US death linked to monkeypox, but said they are still determining what role the disease played in the...
AFP The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years away, in a new...
AFP Mississippi officials declared a health emergency Tuesday after historic flooding damaged treatment systems and left 180,000 people in the state capital Jackson without safe drinking...
AFP Sony’s PlayStation 5 is already notoriously difficult to find, and on Thursday the popular console’s manufacturer said that it will also become more expensive for...
AFP Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has fathered 10 children, said on Monday the world needs to “make more babies” — and keep digging for...
AFP Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape. A new Colombian ambassador,...
AFP Assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed two journalists Sunday in Colombia as they returned from covering a carnival, police said. Both worked for a...
AFP Leftist Peruvian President Pedro Castillo replaced the leadership of the country’s national police Saturday, two weeks after anticorruption officials searched government headquarters in search of...
AFP Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement in a long-running lawsuit seeking damages from the social network for allowing third parties, including the company Cambridge Analytica,...
