AFP YouTube said Tuesday it would remove videos with unfounded accusations of fraud in Brazil’s 2018 elections, a claim President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly made as...
AFP A Russian court Tuesday found jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny guilty of additional charges of embezzlement and contempt of court and sentenced him to nine...
AFP Colombia’s top electoral body announced on Monday it was ordering a recount of votes from Senate elections earlier this month due to the large number...
AFP Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on China Monday to play an “important role” in efforts to resolve Kyiv’s conflict with Moscow. “We share Beijing’s...
AFP Ukraine said Monday that Russian troops had fired on protesters in Kherson demonstrating against Moscow’s seizure of the southern city soon after it launched its...
AFP The Supreme Court judge who had ordered messaging app Telegram blocked in Brazil reversed the ruling Sunday, after the tech company complied with an earlier...
AFP The death toll in a landslide in northern Peru has risen to eight with the recovery of a young child’s body, officials said Sunday. “With...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called again for talks with Moscow on Saturday, saying they were the “only chance for Russia to minimise the damage done with...
AFP Two Brazilian Indigenous boys aged seven and nine have been found after surviving 25 days lost in the Amazon rainforest, where they ate fruit and...
AFP A notorious drug lord wanted by prosecutors in the United States escaped from a prison in Colombia on Friday, authorities confirmed. Juan Larrinson Castro Estupinan,...
AFP A Supreme Court judge in Brazil ruled Friday to block popular messaging application Telegram nationwide, barring one of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s favorite communication channels....
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the French parliament on Wednesday as he pursues efforts to secure international help to end Russia’s invasion. “The war...
AFP Russian state television cut President Vladimir Putin’s speech mid-sentence as he was addressing tens of thousands of supporters at Moscow’s main football stadium on Friday. ...
AFP Chile’s GDP rose by 11.7 percent in 2021, its largest annual spike since record-keeping began in 1960, as the economy reopened following pandemic lockdown restrictions,...
AFP Peru’s constitutional court on Thursday ordered the release of disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, a...
AFP “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger appealed to Vladimir Putin on Thursday to end the “senseless” war in Ukraine and praised Russians protesting the conflict as his...
AFP The Ukraine offensive will expose “traitors” inside Russia, the Kremlin said Thursday, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s earlier call to “purify” Russian society. “In these situations,...
AFP Rescuers digging through a landslide in northern Peru said Wednesday they had recovered three dead bodies, including a one-month-old baby. A landslide Tuesday in the...
AFP Chile’s Constitutional Convention, which is drafting a replacement for the nation’s Pinochet-era charter, approved on Tuesday the inclusion of language protecting the right to an...
AFP The Justice Ministry awarded President Jair Bolsonaro Brazil’s “medal of indigenous merit” Wednesday, drawing criticism for granting the honor to a leader that indigenous groups...
AFP Brazilian environmental groups urged the European Union on Monday to pass aggressive legislation banning all imports linked to deforestation, criticizing “gaps” in a draft bill....
AFP Colombian officials said Monday that the son of a notorious paramilitary leader has won an election to be a special member of Congress representing victims...
AFP The Brazilian government on Monday assured the United States it will increase its oil production, a decision that could help ease concerns over global crude...
AFP Disgraced former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori returned to prison after an 11-day hospitalization with heart problems, his daughter announced Monday. The 83-year-old, currently serving a...
AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday condemned the “barbaric” invasion on Ukraine by Russian president Vladimir Putin and confirmed a fourth sanctions package...
AFP Put up your dukes, Vlad. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Monday challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a fight, with nothing less than...
AFP Russia said Monday that an attack by Kyiv’s forces on the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine had left 23 people dead, with the...
AFP Police were stepping up a search on Monday for a man suspected of the “cold-blooded” shootings of five homeless men in Washington and New York....
AFP Leftist former student leader Gabriel Boric, 36, was sworn in Friday as Chile’s youngest-ever president. “Before the people of Chile, I do swear,” Boric said...
AFP Brazil’s inflation rate hit a seven-year high for the month of February, the government said Friday, as hefty fuel-price hikes took effect that will only...
AFP The Finnish president used a call with Vladimir Putin on Friday to encourage the Russian leader to speak to his Ukrainian counterpart. Sauli Niinisto of...
AFP The WHO said Friday it has urged Ukraine to destroy any highly dangerous pathogens in its laboratories to avoid the risk of an outbreak as...
AFP Venezuela’s vice-president reiterated support for Russia on Thursday following a meeting with the country’s foreign minister in Turkey, where Moscow and Kyiv have been holding...
AFP Top European Union officials on Thursday condemned Russia’s bombing of a maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as a “war crime”. “Mariupol...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow was continuing to export oil and gas, including through Ukraine, where the Kremlin sent troops spurring a...
AFP Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras announced hefty increases in gasoline and diesel prices Thursday in response to the Ukraine crisis, ignoring President Jair Bolsonaro’s criticism...
AFP “My sunshine, my little one, we are going to win,” sobs a woman, stroking the wooden coffin. She is standing at the door of a...
AFP The Russian army on Wednesday admitted for the first time that conscripts were taking part in Moscow’s military advance in Ukraine, after President Vladimir Putin...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday providing for free menstrual supplies for low-income women and girls, five months after drawing criticism for vetoing...
AFP Guatemala’s conservative-led Congress approved on Tuesday a law ramping up the prison sentence for women who choose to have an abortion, while banning both gay...
AFP A woman was raped every 10 minutes last year in Brazil and there was a femicide every seven hours, according to a report published Monday,...
AFP Shares in Brazilian oil company Petrobras plummeted more than seven percent Monday after President Jair Bolsonaro criticized the organization’s pricing policy in the face of...
AFP Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes announced Monday the city would no longer require face masks indoors or outdoors, as hard-hit Brazil continues to bounce...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced the resumption of talks with the opposition, which were halted five months ago after the extradition of a presidential...
AFP EU chief Charles Michel on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a call to end his invasion of Ukraine and allow safe passage for...
AFP US President Joe Biden was to hold a video teleconference Monday with the leaders of France, Germany and Britain to discuss “the latest developments regarding...
AFP Queen Elizabeth II met visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, in her first in-person engagement since falling ill with Covid-19. The 95-year-old monarch,...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday dismissed as “irrelevant” Russian demands for guarantees that new sanctions linked to Ukraine will not affect Moscow’s...
AFP Chile said Saturday it is creating a vast national park to protect hundreds of glaciers that are melting due to climate change. The new National...
AFP A Brazilian state lawmaker known for his social media antics said he had traveled to Ukraine to help the army make Molotov cocktails for use...
AFP A retired Argentine bishop seen as close to Pope Francis was sentenced on Friday to four and a half years in prison for sexually abusing...
AFP Disgraced Peruvian former president Alberto Fujimori was rushed to hospital from prison after suffering from a heart problem, his doctor told AFP on Thursday. The...
AFP Argentina said Thursday it had finalized an agreement with the IMF to refinance a loan of $44 billion. The deal “seeks to continue generating conditions...
AFP Venezuela’s tourism minister on Thursday said the country will increase state airline flights to its ally Moscow, as many countries around the world, led by...
AFP A Ukrainian delegation said Thursday it was en route for a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia on the day Ukraine lost its first...
AFP President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela criticized Wednesday the barrage of Western sanctions slapped on Russia, bucking the global chorus of condemnation of its invasion of...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday proposed lifting a ban on mining in indigenous territories in the Amazon to offset potential fertilizer shortages due to...
AFP A small group of protesters urged the Panamanian government Wednesday to close the Panama Canal to Russian ships as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine....
AFP The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that it was “deeply concerned” by reports of attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine and that it was...
AFP A Colombian court has ruled that people should be able to have their gender registered as non-binary, rather than male or female, on official identity...
AFP In rare backing for Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday assured Vladimir Putin of his “strong support” in a...
AFP NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “shattered peace in Europe” by invading Ukraine, adding that the Western defence alliance...
AFP Russian troops will carry out an attack on what they said was the infrastructure of Ukraine’s intelligence services in Kyiv and urged residents living nearby to...
AFP On the sixth day of fighting in Ukraine Tuesday, Russia is striking cities and building up its forces near the capital Kyiv, vowing not to...
AFP Colombia and the United States announced on Monday a nuclear submarine was taking part for the first time in joint military exercises in the Caribbean...
AFP In a dimly lit mine shaft in Bolivia, a man sharpens two knives next to a table laden with offerings: wine, beer and coca leaves....
AFP Five Argentine couples who were in Ukraine to fetch babies born from surrogate mothers have escaped with their newborns, the foreign ministry in Buenos Aires...
AFP A methane explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia claimed ten lives, the national mining agency said Sunday, and a search has been launched...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Sunday that South America’s biggest country will remain “neutral” over Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The far-right Bolsonaro, who undertook...
AFP President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear forces alert represents a “totally unacceptable” escalation of the invasion of Ukraine, the United States said Sunday, accusing the Russian leader...
AFP The United States and Europe must “really stand together” in response to Russia’s military aggression and “threatening rhetoric”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday, adding...
AFP The political party formed from Colombia’s disarmed FARC guerrilla group said Friday that attacks against its members claimed two lives this week and nearly a...
AFP Poland’s Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker Saturday said 115,000 people had crossed the border into Poland from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion started this week. Just...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on the Ukrainian army to overthrow the government whose leaders he described as “terrorists” and “a gang of...
AFP “I used to repair car tires. Now I repair humans,” boasts Jose Bastidas, an amputee who left his auto repair job to make artificial limbs...
AFP Brazilian mining giant Vale on Thursday reported a net profit of $22.4 billion in 2021, nearly four times higher than the previous year, which it...
AFP Latin American countries are divided on Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, with most condemning military action but a few asserting Moscow’s “right to defend itself” against...
AFP The OSCE’s acting chairman, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, on Thursday slammed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “crime against humanity”. “We condemn in the...
AFP Poland’s prime minister said Thursday that neighbouring Ukraine was fighting for “the freedom of all of Europe” against the “barbarity” of Russia’s invasion. Moscow launched...
AFP The death toll from flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in the Brazilian city of Petropolis has surpassed 200, authorities said Wednesday, as...
AFP Bolivia’s former Interim President Jeanine Anez said Wednesday she had ended a two-week hunger strike, as she awaits trial in a La Paz prison for...
AFP Paraguay’s president on Tuesday fired his interior minister after a newspaper report accused him of using the armored vehicle of a presumed drug dealer on...
AFP Colombia’s president on Tuesday described as “heinous” a Constitutional Court ruling decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, a move he said bypassed Congress...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso announced Tuesday some 5,000 prisoners would be pardoned to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons, which were hit with riots that...
AFP The death toll from flash floods and landslides that hit the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 186, authorities said Tuesday, one week after...
AFP Ollanta Humala on Monday became the first ex-president of Peru to go on trial in a vast corruption case involving Brazilian construction group Odebrecht and...
AFP A retired Argentine bishop seen as close to the Pope, and who worked as an advisor for management of Vatican property, on Monday denied charges...
AFP The death toll from flash floods and landslides that hit the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 182, authorities said Tuesday, one week after...
AFP Construction workers at a building site in northern Gaza have uncovered 31 Roman-era tombs dating from the first century AD, the Palestinian territory’s Islamist rulers...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Moscow was considering recognising the independence of east Ukraine’s two separatist republics, a step that would further escalate...
AFP Russia’s foreign minister said Monday that he would meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday in Geneva, as tensions soar over a feared...
AFP The death toll from torrential rains that triggered flash floods and landslides in the scenic Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 165, authorities said Sunday,...
AFP Rescue workers pulled more bodies Saturday from the muddy wreckage left by devastating floods and landslides in the scenic Brazilian city of Petropolis, where the...
AFP Brazil lashed out Saturday at US criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent trip to Russia, after Washington chided the far-right leader for visiting Vladimir Putin...
AFP Pumalin and Liquine, two juvenile condors rescued from certain death, have been released back into the wild in a much-needed boost for a dwindling species emblematic...
AFP Police clashed Friday with masked and hooded anti-fascism protesters who threw stones and broke windows at a hotel hosting a meeting of far-right political groups...
AFP A Russian court on Friday sentenced in absentia the brother of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Oleg, to one year in prison for violating the...
AFP Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine’s self-proclaimed republics said rebel authorities will begin evacuating civilians to Russia on Friday as fears of a large-scale conflict grow....
AFP Venezuela has arrested 21 people, including former lawmakers and a mayor, in a massive months-long anti-drug-trafficking operation, the country’s attorney general said Thursday. They are...
AFP Colombian police halted a hearing Thursday for a notorious drug trafficker who was arrested late last year, saying they had found plans for a possible...
AFP The Kremlin said Thursday that Russia’s withdrawal of forces from around Ukraine’s borders would take place over an extended period, after reports of Moscow’s drawdown...
AFP President Ignazio Cassis has tested positive for Covid-19, the government said on Thursday — the same day Switzerland lifted almost all remaining coronavirus restrictions despite...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban Thursday, a day after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid fears Moscow is...
AFP Russian leader President Vladimir Putin welcomed “constructive” talks Wednesday with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was on his first official trip to Moscow, defying US...
AFP Argentine President Alberto Fernandez came to the defense Tuesday of his deputy Cristina Kirchner, testifying in a trial for alleged corruption committed when she was...
AFP The bodies of two men hung from a pedestrian bridge in southwestern Ecuador stunned the country Monday and raised the spectre of Mexican cartels there. ...
AFP Brazil publicly reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Kyiv on Monday as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro set off on an official visit to Russia amid soaring...
AFP France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Monday that “all the elements” were in place for Russia to wage a “major offensive” against Ukraine after...
AFP Chilean truck drivers lifted road blockades they had imposed to protest the killing of a colleague, after the government pledged new safety measures on Saturday....
AFP Thousands of pro-government demonstrators marched through Caracas Saturday in support of President Nicolas Maduro, with a smaller opposition rally gathering in parallel. To the sound...
AFP Eight civilians were killed by armed groups in recent days in Venezuela’s restive southwest region that borders Colombia, the country’s defense minister said Friday. Vladimir...
AFP Russia is operationally ready to conduct a wide range of military operations in Ukraine and the Kremlin just needs to make the call, the head...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro has waded into a swirling controversy over Nazism unleashed by a popular podcast in Brazil, saying it should be repudiated along with...
AFP Venezuelan prosecutors are investigating an alleged party held on a table-top mountain in a protected Amazonian national park, an official said Thursday. A group of...
AFP Venezuela’s most wanted criminal was among five people killed in a police and military operation, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said on Wednesday. Carlos Luis Revette,...
AFP Some call her a “political prisoner” but others claim she led a coup d’etat: former interim president Jeanine Anez will go on trial Thursday accused...
Several thousand protesters marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to denounce the agreement reached between the government of centre-left President Alberto Fernandez and the IMF on...
AFP Peru’s leftist President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday appointed a new cabinet, the fourth since he came to power six months ago, including replacing a prime...
AFP The number of Brazilian children aged six and seven who do not know how to read or write has risen by 66 percent during the...
AFP The front-runner in Colombia’s May presidential election apologized on Tuesday for a speech he gave the day before while under the influence of alcohol, which...
AFP At least 34 people are currently held hostage in Colombia, experiencing its worst wave of violence by armed groups since a 2016 peace deal ended...
AFP A Venezuelan court has officially handed over the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional to Diosdado Cabello, widely seen as the government’s number-two man. The...
AFP More than 100 African hippos descended from fewer than a handful imported as exotic pets by drug lord Pablo Escobar, face an uncertain future in...
AFP The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades claimed 28 lives in the capital Quito this week and left 52 people injured, the city’s mayor...
AFP Forest fires that have raged for days in Colombia’s Amazon on Saturday put its Andean capital, Bogota, on an environmental alert as bad air quality...
AFP The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades claimed 27 lives this week and left 53 people injured, municipal officials said Friday. The floods inundated...
AFP Argentina on Friday paid $370 million to the IMF as interest on a $44 billion debt that was rescheduled late last month, officials said. The...
AFP Iceland, one of the only countries that still hunts whales commercially together with Norway and Japan, plans to end whaling from 2024 as demand dwindles,...
AFP The Kremlin on Thursday urged the United States to stop inflaming tensions after Washington sent several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe...
AFP President Joe Biden said Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State group had been “taken off the battlefield” during a raid by US forces...
AFP At least 20 people died and 74 more were hospitalized in a Buenos Aires suburb after consuming cocaine cut with a toxic substance, possibly opioids,...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new record for January just three weeks into the year, according to data released Wednesday, a worrying sign...
AFP Washington and its NATO allies have offered Moscow arms control and trust-building measures to defuse the threat of a new Russian offensive against Ukraine, according...
AFP Two Afghan journalists detained by the Taliban earlier this week were released Wednesday, the news editor of their media organisation said. Since returning to power...
AFP Crowd limits at cultural and sports events will be lifted in Finland from February 14, the prime minister said on Wednesday, with most remaining coronavirus...
AFP An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country’s environmental ministry...
AFP The World Health Organization chief warned Tuesday that it is too early for countries to either declare victory over Covid-19 or give up attempts to...
AFP Colombia took umbrage Monday at being included in a report by UN agencies on 20 “hunger hotspots,” demanding to be removed from the list of...
AFP Japan’s military said Monday it was searching for a fighter jet that disappeared from radar shortly after taking off, with media reporting a “red glow”...
AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he had tested positive for Covid-19 but was not experiencing severe symptoms. The 50-year-old leader — who is...
AFP Torrential rains in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state between Friday and Sunday left at least 18 people dead, authorities said. “Since last Friday, the turmoil caused...
AFP Ecuador said it was monitoring the progress of an operation to clean up an oil leak in the Amazon jungle that threatens to pollute a...
AFP Residents in an inundated neighbourhood of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo are returning with dread to see what remains of their homes and harvests, three days after...
AFP At least 13 people died after a bus carrying pilgrims to a religious shrine in Mexico flipped over on Saturday, authorities said. Another 10 were...
AFP The oil spill off the coast of Peru sparked by a volcanic eruption thousands of miles away is twice as big as previously reported, the...
AFP Venezuela’s electoral authority, controlled by ruling party backers, on Thursday dismissed an opposition petition calling for a referendum on ousting the president. The National Electoral...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he will visit Russia next month, amid Moscow’s diplomatic standoff with the West which accuses it of preparing an...
AFP Argentine President Alberto Fernandez unveiled a new debt repayment deal with the International Monetary Fund on Friday, the day a $700-million repayment was due. The...
AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday that he had been exposed to Covid-19 and would isolate for five days, in accordance with health rules...
AFP Teams of workers raced Wednesday to clear mud and debris from the only transport access to the jewel of Peru’s tourism sector, Machu Picchu, following...
AFP Chile’s central bank on Wednesday announced a third successive hike in its benchmark interest rate in a bid to contain inflation, which is at a...
AFP The Vatican Wednesday defended ex-pope Benedict XVI, who was accused last week of knowingly failing to stop the sexual abuse of minors by four priests...
AFP Deliberate poisoning is likely to blame for the death of dozens of turtles at a lake near Mumbai, Indian wildlife experts told AFP Sunday. Conservation...
AFP Argentina’s economy grew 10.3 percent in the first 11 months of 2021 from the same period a year earlier, the Indec statistics institute said Tuesday....
AFP A fresh oil leak has occurred off the coast of Peru — already cleaning up after a major crude spill 10 days earlier — during...
AFP Russia on Tuesday added jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a list of “terrorists and extremists”, as authorities continue a clampdown on the opposition. Navalny...
AFP The Kremlin on Tuesday accused the United States of escalating tensions over Ukraine by putting 8,500 troops on alert. “The United States is escalating tensions,”...
AFP Almost 900 people were evacuated from the tourist town serving Machu Picchu, the Inca jewel of Peru’s travel industry, amid rains and floods that left...
AFP The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the planet can end the Covid-19 emergency this year, although the virus last week...
AFP The governor of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state announced plans Saturday for massive investments aimed at revitalizing two long crime-infested slum districts. The announcement came...
AFP A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, including protected penguins, after 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled off Peru’s coast due to...
AFP President Joe Biden marked the 49th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing abortion rights in the United States by again urging that those...
AFP Peru on Saturday declared an “environmental emergency” along a stretch of coast hit by an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption...
AFP At Miramar Beach in Peru’s popular resort of Ancon, there are no bathers despite the summer heat. Instead, it teems with workers in coveralls cleaning...
AFP The Taliban’s religious police have threatened to shoot women NGO workers in a northwestern province of Afghanistan if they do not wear the all-covering burqa,...
AFP Irina Karamanos, an avowed feminist and partner of Chile’s leftist president-elect Gabriel Boric, has drawn fire from women’s groups for her decision to accept the...
AFP A car bomb detonated in Colombia overnight outside government offices and the seat of a human rights body, killing one person and wounded 20 near...
AFP Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he was cutting short an official visit to Suriname and Guyana and returning home after his mother died. “With...
AFP A Colombian court has ruled that the government cannot conduct anti-drug fumigation without the consent of rural communities, in a blow to plans to resume...
AFP A Chilean appeals court on Friday suspended a million-dollar state lithium tender issued two days earlier that had generated controversy for coming just two months...
AFP Peru demanded compensation Wednesday from Spanish energy giant Repsol over an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption near Tonga in the...
AFP Ingrid Betancourt — who was abducted 20 years ago while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency, and held captive by FARC rebels in the jungle for more...
AFP Irina Karamanos, the partner of Chile’s president elect Gabriel Boric, announced on Tuesday she would take on the official role of first lady but vowed...
AFP Brazil registered a new record number of daily Covid-19 cases of more than 137,000, according to figures supplied by the health ministry on Tuesday. The...
AFP Up to 2,000 trucks are backed up at Argentina’s main border crossing with Chile due to tougher Covid-19 testing requirements, Argentine haulers said on Tuesday,...
AFP The Vatican’s top diplomat and adviser to Pope Francis, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has tested positive for Covid, a spokesman for the Holy See said Tuesday. ...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for diplomacy to end the Ukraine crisis in a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who earlier...
AFP Colombia saw 145 community leaders and rights defenders killed in 2021, a year marked by anti-government protests that were brutally put down, the country’s human...
AFP Peruvian authorities sealed off three beaches Monday after they were hit by an oil spill blamed on freak waves caused by the volcanic eruption in...
AFP A cold case investigation led by an ex-FBI agent has identified a Jewish notary as the prime suspect in the mystery of who betrayed teenage...
AFP Hundreds of men, women and children gathered early Saturday morning in the parking lot of San Pedro Sula’s main transit hub, on the edge of...
AFP Two women drowned on a beach in northern Peru due to “anomalous waves” registered after the volcanic eruption in Tonga, more than 10,000 kilometers away,...
AFP Ecuador on Sunday declared a red alert in most of the country following a ten-fold increase in Covid-19 cases. The red alert applies to 193...
AFP Latin America and the Caribbean registered a record of more than 300,000 new daily Covid-19 cases from January 7-13, according to an AFP count based...
AFP Hundreds of men, women and children gathered early Saturday morning in the parking lot of San Pedro Sula’s main transit hub, on the edge of...
AFP Brazil began vaccinating children aged five to 11 against Covid-19 on Friday after the move was approved, despite objections from President Jair Bolsonaro. Davi Seremramiwe...
AFP Ecuador created a massive new marine reserve Friday north of its Galapagos islands, forming a Pacific corridor up to Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park...
AFP The Taliban on Friday urged Washington to heed a call by the United Nations chief to unlock Afghan funds frozen in the United States, as...
AFP The world faces more years of high energy prices and emissions unless the electricity sector changes faster after demand hit a record last year, the...
AFP The NATO alliance will deepen its cyber warfare cooperation with its partner Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday, after a massive cyberattack knocked out...
AFP Uruguay captain Diego Godin has signed for Atletico Mineiro after reaching agreement with Cagliari to terminate his contract, the Brazilian champions said on Wednesday. The...
AFP Argentine inflation continued to rise in 2021, ending the year at more than 50 percent, the state statistics institute said on Thursday, It was grim...
AFP A town in Western Australia on Thursday equalled the country’s hottest day on record, reporting a temperature of 50.7C (123.26F), the Bureau of Meteorology said....
AFP A year ago Argentina joined the limited ranks of Latin American countries to have legalized abortion, but while that gave hope to millions of women,...
AFP Chile shunned two of the world’s biggest lithium producers when awarding extraction contracts worth a total of $121 million to a local firm and a...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday downplayed the Omicron coronavirus variant amid a surge in hard-hit Brazil, ruling out new containment measures as he defended the...
AFP South African police Wednesday uprooted cannabis plants grown by indigenous activists who have camped outside President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office for more than three years, AFP...
AFP The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on...
AFP The diocese of Rome expressed outrage Tuesday after a Nazi flag was draped over the coffin of a neo-fascist activist during her funeral at a...
AFP The number of irregular migrants who crossed into the European Union last year was “just short of 200,000” — the highest number since 2017, the...
