| By AFP | Brazilian football legend Pele has been hospitalized again for a “reevaluation” of his treatment following a colon tumor last year, his doctors...
| By AFP | Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed an area bigger than Qatar in the 12 months through July, according to official figures released Wednesday,...
| By AFP | The highly contagious H5N1 avian flu virus has killed thousands of pelicans, blue-footed boobies and other seabirds in Peru, according to the...
| By AFP | Chris Lefkow | The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case brought by border state Texas challenging the federal...
| By AFP | Sebastian Smith and Beiyi Seow | US President Joe Biden is monitoring unrest in China by protesters demanding an end to Covid...
| By AFP | US consumers were gloomier about the state of the American economy in November, likely due to a rise in gas prices and...
| By AFP | Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a Colombian journalist, local authorities said Tuesday, the latest killing in the country which has seen...
| By AFP | Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday accused the court trying her for alleged corruption of being a “firing squad,” speaking in...
| PAr AFP | John Biers | US retailers unveiled a trove of fresh promotions Friday, as they try to coax sales from reticent shoppers whose...
| By AFP | Ecuador nearly doubled its number of prison guards on Monday as it tries to crack down on brutal violence between drug gangs...
| By AFP | Argentinian soy farmers will be able to sell their product at a preferential exchange rate, as the country seeks to shore up...
| By AFP | Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk announced Friday that the platform would be launching differently colored badges to distinguish between accounts. “Sorry for...
| By AFP | Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias | Supporters of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are expected to flood the streets of Mexico City on...
| By AFP | Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Friday appointed the culture minister as the country’s prime minister after her predecessor resigned over a row...
| By AFP | Colombia’s government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last recognized rebel group in the country, said Friday they would invite the...
| By AFP | At least three people including an adolescent girl were killed and 11 others wounded Friday when a gunman opened fire on two...
| By AFP | John Biers | Retailers unveiled a trove of fresh seasonal promotions Friday, as they try to coax sales from reticent shoppers whose...
| By AFP | Virginia authorities on Friday released a “death note” in which the Walmart manager who shot and killed six people at his store...
| By AFP | A journalist who alleges that Donald Trump raped her in the mid-1990s filed an upgraded lawsuit on Thursday under a new law...
| By AFP | Brazil’s top electoral authority on Wednesday threw out a challenge by President Jair Bolsonaro’s party against his election defeat and fined it...
| By AFP | Esteban Rojas with Lina Vanegas en Bogota | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government will resume talks with the opposition Friday after more...
| By AFP | Two of the World Health Organization’s most senior figures in the fight against Covid-19 are quitting next week, according to a letter...
| By AFP | Climate change will end up killing people by fuelling infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and...
| By AFP | Michael Mathes | A Walmart employee shot dead six people at a store bustling with Thanksgiving holiday shoppers, before turning the pistol...
| By AFP | Thomas Urbain | Sandra White normally has turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. But on Thursday, due to soaring inflation, she’s going to have...
| By AFP | Bacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first...
| By AFP | Colombia’s government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last recognized rebel group in the country, resumed formal peace talks in Venezuela...
| By AFP | Carlos Mandujano | The Peruvian mining city of La Oroya, one of the most polluted places in the world, is seeking to...
| By AFP | Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent surgery to remove a lesion from his vocal cords upon his return from a...
| By AFP | Hebe de Bonafini, who led a group of Argentine women known as the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in defying the military...
| By AFP | Paula Ramon | Donald Trump received a standing ovation at a Republican Party gathering Saturday, even as several possible White House rivals...
| By AFP | Colombia’s government and the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group will resume peace talks on Monday after a nearly four-year hiatus,...
| By AFP | On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is “exceeding performance expectations,” NASA officials...
| By AFP | Two Peruvian firefighters were killed Friday when a passenger plane collided with their truck during takeoff and then crashed on the runway,...
| By AFP | The White House said Friday that only Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can decide to open peace talks with Russia, rejecting the notion...
| Par AFP | Samir Tounsi | Clothing designers inspired by traditional Mexican motifs, embroidery and colors are exhibiting their work at a fashion fair in...
| By AFP | Miguel Sanchez | Chile, where 84 percent of child support goes unpaid, on Friday introduced a national register of defaulters who now...
| By AFP | Camille Camdessus | Republicans on Wednesday took control of the US House of Representatives from Democrats, networks said, narrowly securing a legislative...
| By AFP | Starbucks workers in more than 100 US stores plan to go on strike Thursday, according to a union, protesting the coffee giant’s...
| By AFP | A California-based lab-grown meat start-up received the first green light for such products from the US food safety agency on Wednesday, although...
| By AFP | Juliette Michel | Tesla tycoon Elon Musk will take the stand on Wednesday as part of a trial over his $50 billion...
| By AFP | Gerard Martinez | There was no escalator like last time, no offensive nicknames like always, and none of the awkward dancing that...
| By AFP | Lucie Aubourg | NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, in a spectacular...
| By AFP | Thousands of Brazilians gathered outside Army barracks in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and other cities on Tuesday demanding the military intervene to...
| By AFP | Camille Camdessus | Former US president Donald Trump is expected to launch another White House bid Tuesday, even as another one of...
| By AFP | Juliette Michel with Beiyi Seow in Washington | US retailer Walmart saw its earnings top expectations in the third quarter as consumers...
| By AFP | Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro will not participate in the G20 summit in Indonesia, the foreign ministry said Monday, without explaining his...
| By AFP | It likely will be “appropriate soon” for the US central bank to slow the pace of interest rate increases, Federal Reserve Vice...
| By AFP | Lucie Aubourg | After two failed attempts this summer, NASA was busy Monday completing final preparations for the launch of its new...
| By AFP | Louis Genot | Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected this week at the UN climate summit in Egypt to...
| By AFP | Former Brazilian congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos was sentenced Sunday to 50 years in prison for the murder of her husband in 2019,...
| By AFP | Democrats celebrated Sunday a stunning victory to hold the US Senate, leaving Republicans in disarray and providing a critical base of political...
| By AFP | Luján Scarpinelli y Florian Plaucheur en Rio de Janeiro | Protests in deeply polarized Brazil have dwindled since presidential elections nearly two...
| By AFP | Laurent Thomet and Kelly Macnamara | President Joe Biden vowed at UN climate talks on Friday that the United States was on...
| By AFP | Twitter moved on Friday to curb fake accounts that have proliferated since Elon Musk’s takeover, suspending sign-ups for a new paid checkmark...
| By AFP | Julie Jammot | Twitter launched two new verification tools Wednesday but “killed” one of them hours later in a messy start to...
| By AFP | Chris Lefkow | Control of the US Congress hung in the balance on Thursday as ballot-counting dragged on and attention shifted to...
| By AFP | Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he would travel to Egypt to take part in the COP27 global...
| By AFP | Lina Vanegas | In Colombia’s Amazon jungle, indigenous people of different nations, ethnicities and languages have come together to find a single...
| Bye AFP | Midterm elections in the United States saw free but highly polarized campaigns and voter disinformation was widespread, international observers said Wednesday. The...
| By AFP | President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met the leaders of both houses of Congress Wednesday, calling for “dialogue” in a divided Brazil...
| By AFP | Juliette Michel with Joseph Boyle in Paris | Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most...
| By AFP | Shaun Tandon with Andrea Bambino in Pittsburgh and Romain Fonsegrives in Phoenix | Republicans appeared poised on Wednesday to carve out a...
| By AFP | NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east coast of...
| By AFP | Tesla issued a recall in the United States to just over 40,000 vehicles for a possible problem in the electric power steering...
| By AFP | Paul Handley | Control of the US Congress is at stake Tuesday as Americans vote nationwide, but with key races expected to...
| By AFP | Andrea Bambino with Sebastian Smith in Washington | Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday in midterm elections in which Republicans are...
| By AFP | Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, seen as a likely contender for president in 2024, on Monday accused a top prosecutor of trying...
| By AFP | Five inmates died Monday when rival gangs clashed in a prison in Ecuador’s capital Quito, which has so far avoided many of...
| By AFP | Apple warned customers would face longer wait times for iPhones with the holiday season approaching, after Covid restrictions in central China “temporarily...
| By AFP | The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against Haitian gang leaders involved in the kidnappings of Americans and offered up to...
| By AFP | Sebastian Smith | Republicans and Democrats traded final blows Monday ahead of midterm elections that could upend Joe Biden’s presidency, weaken Western...
| By AFP | Marcelo Silva De Sousa Fresh off a celebratory beach holiday, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got down to uglier business...
| By AFP | An ultra-conservative who was the most-voted lawmaker in Brazil’s elections said Saturday his social media accounts had been suspended after he called...
| By AFP | Brazilian police said Friday they had nearly finished clearing hundreds of roadblocks by supporters of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who have been...
| By AFP | Landslides and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least seven people in the coastal state of Anzoategui in eastern Venezuela,...
| By AFP NASA rolled out its largest-ever rocket to a launch pad in Florida on Friday and will try again 10 days from now to...
| By AFP | Brazilian police said Friday they have nearly finished clearing hundreds of roadblocks by supporters of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who have been...
| By AFP | Indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon detained a group of foreign and Peruvian tourists traveling on a river boat to protest the lack...
| By AFP | Six police were wounded Thursday in the latest prison riot to hit Ecuador, officials said, as the country is gripped by violence blamed...
| By AFP | The ALMA space telescope in the Chilean Andes suffered a cyberattack over the weekend that has downed its website and suspended its...
| By AFP | Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of exception in two provinces Tuesday, after at least five police officers were killed and...
| By AFP | Javier Tovar and Barbara Agelvis | Colombia’s Gustavo Petro met on Tuesday with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, in the first talks...
| By AFP | Marcelo Silva De Sousa | Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday “authorized” the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his defeat...
| 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...
