AFP Pope Francis on Monday urged the international community to step up Covid vaccination and said “reality therapy” was needed to battle “baseless information” putting people off...
AFP Aid agencies have suspended their work in an area of Ethiopia’s Tigray region after a deadly air strike on a camp for people displaced by...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a Moscow-led military detachment deployed to counter unrest in Kazakhstan would remain in the Central Asian country for...
AFP Israel will maintain “unrestricted freedom” to act against Iran regardless of any nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said...
AFP Nine students were killed by a blast at a mobile popcorn stall near a school in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said. There were...
AFP Victor Escobar decided to die and to do so publicly, becoming one of the first Latin Americans to end their life without suffering from a...
AFP At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities said...
AFP President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday said any attempts to undermine South Africa’s democracy would fail, a week after a fire devastated the National Assembly building...
AFP A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Peru’s capital and surrounding areas Friday, leaving at least nine people injured and some homes damaged, authorities said. The quake was...
AFP Sao Paulo, Latin America’s most populous city, on Thursday cancelled its annual street carnival for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus...
AFP Covid-19 killed at least one parent or primary caregiver for nearly 100,000 children in Peru, the country with the world’s highest coronavirus death rate, its...
AFP Chile will start administering a fourth Covid vaccine dose to people with weakened immune systems from Monday, President Sebastian Pinera said, as the country recorded...
AFP A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rattled Peru’s capital and surrounding areas Friday, with no immediate reports of damage or injuries, authorities said. The temblor was registered...
AFP China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Thursday that Beijing would appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa, signalling his country’s intention to play...
AFP President Joe Biden tore into Donald Trump Thursday on the first anniversary of the Capitol insurrection, calling him a selfish liar who could not accept...
AFP Brazilian health authorities authorized Covid-19 vaccines for children age five to 11 on Wednesday, as South America’s most populous country faces a rapid increase in...
AFP Panama has extradited to the United States a retired Colombian soldier wanted over the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise last July, an official said...
AFP Peruvian prosecutors said on Tuesday that they will investigate President Pedro Castillo when his term ends for the alleged crimes of influence peddling, collusion and...
AFP Thousands marched Tuesday along the beaches of Argentina’s Mar del Plata to protest an oil exploration project off the Atlantic coast. Carrying placards reading, “Oil...
AFP Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday he had been cleared to leave the hospital after being treated for an intestinal blockage. “Authorized to leave now....
AFP About 24,000 people have been evacuated and two children killed in floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said Tuesday, with environmental campaigners blaming deforestation for...
AFP Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first....
AFP An online auction of some 90 items owned by the late football icon Diego Maradona has closed with a house and BMW unsold, but most...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not need surgery, his doctors said Tuesday, a day after the far-right leader was rushed to the hospital with a...
AFP Between the pandemic and the rainy weather, it was a muted New Year’s celebration on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach, but there was a...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was rushed to hospital early Monday morning for treatment of a probable intestinal obstruction, local media reported. Bolsonaro, 66, who has...
AFP Heavy snow caused traffic jams, flight cancellations and disruption to train services in central Japan on Monday, with record drifts recorded in some areas. More...
AFP Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case that enshrined abortion as a legal right in the United States, died Sunday aged...
AFP French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce new Covid measures on Monday as the country braces for a new surge in cases due to...
AFP Iran has agreed to accept Ceylon tea in payment for a Sri Lankan oil debt valued at $251 million, Iranian media reported Thursday. “In recent...
A military tribunal in Cameroon has jailed dozens of opposition supporters for terms of up to seven years for “rebellion”, their party’s deputy secretary general said....
AFP Iraq’s supreme court on Monday rejected a motion filed by the Hashed al-Shaabi ex-paramilitary alliance contesting its defeat in the October 10 parliamentary election. “The...
AFP A vaccination drive against cholera kicked off last week targeting two million people in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World...
AFP Bodycam footage of the “chaotic” police shooting of a teenager in a California department store was released Monday, as critics claimed officers were all-too-ready to...
AFP Chile will offer its citizens a fourth coronavirus vaccine dose from February, starting with high-risk categories, President Sebastian Pinera has announced. “The main concern and...
AFP Ecuador on Thursday became the first country to make coronavirus vaccines obligatory for children as young as five, following the arrival of the Omicron variant...
AFP Some 250 firefighters and national park employees battled blazes Friday in Argentina’s Patagonia region which have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest, authorities said. Fires...
AFP The death toll from heavy rain and flooding that has plagued the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia since November rose to 20 on Monday, amid...
AFP The Spanish government’s First Vice President Nadia Calvino was elected chair of the group of finance ministers and central bankers that advises the IMF’s board,...
AFP South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma can appeal a court ruling last week that he should not enjoy medical parole and should return to jail....
AFP Former US president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the release of documents to a congressional committee investigating the January 6...
AFP At least four migrants died after their boat was grounded on an islet north of the Greek island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek coastguard...
AFP The United States is preparing for talks with Russia that could start within weeks, a senior official said Thursday, as Western powers accuse Moscow of...
AFP British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his Christmas Eve message on Friday exhorted the UK public to get jabbed as a “wonderful” gift for the...
AFP The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading at an unprecedented rate, the WHO said, urging countries to act swiftly to rein in transmission and protect...
AFP The suspected attacker managed to cross a wire fence to access the runaway at the Camilo Daza International Airport in the city of Cucuta, close...
AFP Though he isn’t even a year into his first term, US President Joe Biden says one factor could help convince him to run again in...
AFP/Redacción Venezuela detectó los siete primeros casos de la variante ómicron del coronavirus, anunció este miércoles el presidente Nicolás Maduro. “Detectaron los primeros siete casos de...
AFP Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country...
AFP The United States on Wednesday authorized Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill for high-risk people aged 12 and up, as a surge of cases driven by the highly infectious...
AFP The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a US-proposed resolution that facilitates humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, which is on the verge of economic collapse,...
AFP Temperatures have soared in Greenland recently, the Danish Meteorological Institute said on Wednesday, in line with warming trends experts have linked to global warming. In...
AFP Spain’s Supreme Court said Wednesday it had annulled a lower court ruling ordering Barcelona defender Gerard Pique to pay the country’s tax office 2.1 million...
AFP Year-on-year unemployment in Argentina fell by 3.5 percentage points in the third quarter of 2021 to 8.2 percent, the Indec national statistics institute said on...
AFP Aerospace giants Airbus and Boeing on Tuesday warned the US aviation industry had “concerns” about the potential interference of 5G networks with vital flight safety...
AFP The United States will give $580 million in additional aid to international organizations to fight Covid-19 in the face of surging Omicron cases, Secretary of...
AFP South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma can appeal a court ruling last week that he should not enjoy medical parole and should return to jail....
AFP South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work after spending a week in isolation following a positive Covid test, his office said Monday. Ramaphosa,...
AFP The eruption of an volcano in Iceland, which drew hundreds of thousands of tourists and was the longest in 50 years, has been declared officially...
AFP Several thousand Argentines on Sunday commemorated the 20th anniversary of the country’s “great crisis,” when the South American nation plunged into social unrest following economic...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday passed a rule making abortion pills accessible by mail permanently, not just for the Covid pandemic, a rare...
AFP Texas has begun building its own “wall” of huge steel bars on the border with Mexico, its Republican governor Greg Abbott said Saturday, accusing President...
AFP Brazil raised nearly $2 billion Friday with the auction of two large oil blocks, drawing bids from major international firms after struggling recently to generate...
AFP The Kremlin on Friday defended new legislation requiring foreigners in Russia to undergo health checks every three months, after the law drew the ire of...
AFP A representative for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority community testified in an Argentine court Thursday as a part of an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by...
AFP Leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has increased his lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro 10 months out from Brazil’s elections and could win in...
AFP The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will close its Brazilian office, a day after receiving harsh criticism from Economy Minister Paulo Guedes over its...
AFP Boca Juniors beat Barcelona on penalties on Tuesday in Riyadh, in a friendly match in honour of Diego Maradona, marked by the return of Brazilian...
AFP Dozens of women protested Thursday in Afghanistan’s capital, demanding the right to education, jobs and political representation from the Taliban government. Although public protests are...
AFP Two girls, including a three-year-old, have died in Guinea after being sexually assaulted, rights groups said, calling for justice after a series of attacks and...
AFP Chile’s central bank on Wednesday improved its projection for economic growth in 2021 to 11.5 – 12 percent due to “greater spending dynamism.” In September,...
AFP Russian tech group VK, which owns the country’s leading social network VKontakte, said Monday that it has appointed the son of one of President Vladimir...
AFP China branded US democracy a “weapon of mass destruction” on Saturday, following the US-organised Summit for Democracy which aimed to shore up like-minded allies in...
AFP The powerful storm system that devastated parts of the United States overnight is likely to be “one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history,”...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Friday he called Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and discussed tensions on the Ukrainian border, where tens of thousands of...
AFP Joe Biden on Friday used his first late-night television talk show appearance as US president to highlight his infrastructure bill — and laugh off his...
AFP Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday signed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, two days after Congress approved a bill opposed by one of the frontrunners...
AFP Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed New Year’s Eve party after all, Mayor Eduardo Paes announced Thursday, five days after canceling the celebration over...
AFP Nicaragua announced Thursday it was breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China, as the administration of Daniel Ortega believes there is only one...
AFP The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation restricting imports from China’s Xinjiang region over its treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority, as tensions continue...
AFP The World Health Organization said Thursday it remained unclear whether additional Covid-19 vaccine doses are needed to protect against the new Omicron variant, and urged...
AFP Peru’s former first lady Susana Higuchi — wife-turned-critic of ex-president Alberto Fujimori and mother of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori — died Wednesday of cancer, her...
AFP Brazil’s central bank on Wednesday hiked its benchmark interest rate by a whopping 150 basis points for the second straight time, seeking to fight surging...
AFP Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was elected by parliament Wednesday as the country’s next president, set to lead in 2022 amid deepening tensions over the...
AFP The death toll from the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Semeru has risen to 39, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers scrambled to retrieve more bodies under...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking publicly for the first time since his high-profile talks with US leader Joe Biden, said Wednesday Moscow reserves the right...
AFP Brazil on Tuesday ruled out requiring a Covid-19 vaccination certificate for foreign travelers arriving in the country, despite a recommendation from the national health regulator....
AFP Chile’s congress on Tuesday approved a long-awaited bill to legalize same-sex marriage, joining just a handful of countries in majority Catholic Latin America with similar...
AFP Latin America will see a 25 percent rise in the value of goods exports for 2021, after a drop of 10 percent in 2020, a...
AFP At least four civilians were killed and four more wounded Tuesday in a motorcycle bombing near a hospital in central Basra city in southern Iraq,...
AFP Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced Tuesday that he is now working in the industrial sewing outfit of his penal colony after being ordered to...
AFP New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday announced a blanket Covid-19 vaccine mandate for the private sector in the United States’ biggest city, starting...
AFP Pope Francis said Monday he was ready to travel to Moscow to visit Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church. “I am ready to...
AFP A dissident former leader of the FARC guerrillas was shot dead in Venezuela by other rebels, Colombian media reported Sunday. Citing Colombian and Venezuelan intelligence...
AFP One of Venezuela’s opposition heavyweights called Sunday for an end to the country’s interim government that was formed in 2019 to try to oust President...
AFP Argentina has registered its first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, in a traveler from South Africa, the health ministry announced. The infected person,...
AFP Chile said Saturday it had found its first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in a traveler who arrived late last month from Ghana....
AFP A total solar eclipse plunged Antarctica from summer into darkness early Saturday in a rare astronomical spectacle witnessed by a handful of scientists and thrill-seekers...
AFP A Peruvian judge ruled Friday that former president Alberto Fujimori cannot for now be prosecuted over alleged forced sterilizations that happened during his administration, because...
AFP Officials from Argentina’s economy ministry and central bank will travel to Washington Saturday for talks with the International Monetary Fund on repayment of a debt...
AFP Chilean paleontologists on Wednesday presented their findings on a dinosaur discovered three years ago in Patagonia which they said had a highly unusual tail that...
AFP Switzerland announced Friday it was dropping 10-day quarantine rules for people flying in from countries where the Omicron Covid-19 variant has been detected. The wealthy...
AFP Canadian lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously voted to ban so-called conversion therapy, after two previous attempts to criminalize actions seeking to change a person’s sexual orientation...
AFP Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday issued the country’s first-ever authorization for planting, cultivating and harvesting cannabis for industrial purposes. It granted the right to a...
AFP Argentina’s ex-president Mauricio Macri was charged Wednesday with ordering the illegal surveillance, as head of state, of relatives of 44 sailors who died when a...
AFP The Brazilian Senate on Wednesday approved a Presbyterian pastor for a seat on the Supreme Court in a win for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who...
AFP The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned a “toxic mix” of low vaccination coverage and low testing rates was creating fertile breeding ground for new...
AFP Honduras’s leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro was headed for election victory Tuesday — making history as the first woman to govern the Central American nation...
AFP The older brother of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on Tuesday renounced the governorship of western Barinas state, a stronghold of the family, after losing...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been without a political party since 2019, on Tuesday joined the right-wing Liberal Party (PL) ahead of 2022 elections....
AFP The World Health Organization called Tuesday for countries to keep calm and take “rational” measures in response to the new, fast-spreading Covid variant Omicron, which has...
AFP The United States on Tuesday announced it has removed the former rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia from its list of terrorist organizations....
AFP A volcano northwest of the Philippine capital Manila erupted Tuesday, authorities said, adding there were no reports of ashfall but warning people to stay away...
AFP Argentina’s justice system will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the Myanmar military against that country’s Rohingya minority under a court ruling upholding the...
AFP The new Covid variant Omicron is highly transmissible and requires “urgent action,” G7 health ministers said Monday, praising South Africa’s “exemplary work” for both detecting...
AFP Brazilian authorities burned more than 60 river-dredging boats in a crackdown on wildcat miners drawn to a major Amazon tributary by rumors of a gold...
AFP President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday assailed EU observers of Venezuelan local elections and denied their assertion that last week’s voting was marred by irregularities. “Those...
AFP Three-quarters of children have faced abuse in sport and boys are more likely to be victims than girls, a study of more than 10,000 individuals...
AFP Thirteen candidates will contest Honduras’s razor-tight presidential election on Sunday to see who will succeed scandal-tainted Juan Orlando Hernandez. Here are short profiles of the...
AFP Brazil’s national health agency recommended Friday the government bar foreign travelers arriving from six southern African countries over a new Covid-19 variant detected in the...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to India next month, in only his second trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic began two years ago, the...
AFP Several regions in China have extended maternity leave by at least 30 days, in the latest attempt to encourage child-rearing as the country faces a...
AFP Pope Francis plans to arrange the transfer of a number of migrants to Rome during his visit to Cyprus next week, Cypriot officials said Friday,...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he was against Brazil resuming carnival celebrations in February, a rare nod to Covid-19 social distancing measures from the far-right...
AFP India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world’s...
AFP The EU cleared Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged five to 11 on Thursday, the first jab to be approved in a cohort...
AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday renewed her call for tougher curbs to halt record coronavirus infections in Germany, stressing that “every day counts” as the...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday made another appeal to sceptical Russians to vaccinate themselves against Covid-19 but remained opposed to mandatory vaccinations. Putin also...
AFP An Indian man mistakenly declared dead after a road accident only to be found still breathing in a hospital morgue freezer has been cremated after...
AFP The Netherlands could announce tougher Covid-19 restrictions this week, just days after four nights of riots against the existing partial lockdown, the country’s health minister...
AFP An EU observer mission on Tuesday reported irregularities in Venezuelan elections for governors and mayors over the weekend, in which opposition parties participated for the...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Sudanese leaders in calls Monday that the country needs to make more progress on democracy before Washington resumes...
AFP Israel rolled out Covid-19 vaccinations for children aged five to 11 on Tuesday, one of only a handful of countries to inoculate minors that young...
AFP Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido called Monday for “sincere unity” following a disastrous defeat in regional elections the day before. The fractured opposition broke a...
AFP Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso granted a pardon Monday to inmates with serious illnesses and those jailed for traffic violations to alleviate overcrowding in the country’s...
AFP Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency said Monday it had arrested dozens of Islamist Hamas members in the occupied West Bank who were preparing anti-Israeli...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday nominated Jerome Powell for a second term as Federal Reserve Chair, allowing him to continue his role overseeing the...
AFP International rights groups raised alarm over recent transfers of activists to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan from Russia as top EU diplomat Josep Borrell met foreign ministers...
AFP The government of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, whose 2018 election is not recognized by part of the international community, won a landslide victory in Sunday’s...
AFP With opposition parties participating for the first time since 2017 and European Union observers returning, Venezuela’s Sunday elections represent an early contest for power between...
AFP Colombia’s President Ivan Duque issued an apology Friday after cadets at a police academy caused outrage by dressing up as Nazis for a “cultural exchange”...
AFP Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosted former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday in Madrid, his last stop on a European tour...
AFP South Africa has experienced a “deeply disturbing” increase in rape and murder, partially explained by deadly riots in July, the police minister said on Friday....
AFP Remains of a toothless, two-legged dinosaur species that lived some 70 million years ago has been discovered in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, calling it a...
AFP Venezuela’s opposition will contest regional elections Sunday for the first time in three years but it will do so disunited and unconvinced President Nicolas Maduro...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for dialogue between his Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko and the country’s opposition, exiled since Minsk suppressed mass anti-government...
AFP The United States wants to produce one billion more doses of mRNA vaccines each year, starting in 2022, both for the current pandemic and future...
AFP A 50-year-old man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sexually assaulting his step-daughter was executed on Wednesday in the southern US state of Mississippi,...
AFP Leading Cuban protest leader Yunior Garcia acknowledged Thursday that his flight to Spain following pressure from the authorities on the island was a “painful blow”...
AFP England fly-half George Ford will leave Leicester to join Premiership rivals Sale ahead of the 2022/23 season, the clubs announced on Wednesday. The 28-year-old, who...
AFP Migrants have continued to provide a strong financial boost to their home countries this year, increasing cash sent to their families, the World Bank said...
AFP US lawmakers will vote Wednesday to censure a Trump loyalist for posting an animated video depicting him killing a colleague and attacking President Joe Biden, in...
AFP Ecuadoran police and soldiers took complete control Tuesday of a prison where riots between rival gangs left 68 dead over the weekend, the head of...
AFP A Colombian nun who was kidnapped and held by jihadists in Mali for more than four years returned to her home country on Tuesday. “Welcome,...
AFP A year before the World Cup in Qatar, Amnesty International Tuesday urged the energy-rich emirate to end abuses against migrant workers, many of whom built...
AFP Video of Chinese health workers killing a pet dog with a crowbar after its owners were sent into Covid quarantine has sparked outrage, with social...
AFP The number of smokers worldwide has dropped steadily in recent years, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, urging countries to step up control measures further...
AFP The Taliban have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan after duping them into believing they would be marrying into...
AFP Bolivia’s opposition on Monday stepped up its demands on leftist President Luis Arce with a call for the repeal of more laws after a week...
AFP A volcano that destroyed an entire town in Colombia with the death of some 25,000 people spewed ash and gas this weekend on the 36th...
AFP Peru, the country with the world’s highest Covid mortality rate, will begin next month to require vaccination proof from adults entering indoor spaces, the government...
AFP The heads of Ecuador’s armed forces and prisons resigned Monday after weekend riots left 68 dead in the latest outbreak of violence between inmates aligned...
AFP Argentina’s center-left President Alberto Fernandez called for dialogue with the opposition after Sunday’s midterm parliamentary elections, with projections showing his governing coalition has lost control...
AFP The United States has warned China over its pressure on Taiwan, the State Department said Saturday as the two powers gird for a hotly awaited...
AFP Prison inmates from rival gangs in Ecuador fought each other with guns, explosives and blades in a bloodbath that left at least 68 dead in...
At least one person was killed and four others injured Saturday when a suspected bomb destroyed a minibus near a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul, officials said....
AFP Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest hit a new record in October, a Brazilian government agency said Friday, just days after President Jair Bolsonaro announced ambitious...
AFP US President Joe Biden is expected to hold a hotly awaited virtual summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday, US media reported, as...
AFP Pope Francis spoke up for the least fortunate on World Day of the Poor during a visit to Assisi on Friday, denouncing economic inequality and...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Friday that Ethiopia risked imploding, with disastrous consequences for the region, unless the government and rebels negotiate a...
AFP Argentinians choose new lawmakers Sunday in a vote that could determine President Alberto Fernandez’s ability to govern effectively for the remaining two years of his...
AFP The death on Thursday of South Africa’s last white president FW de Klerk drew mixed reactions, with some hailing his role in ending apartheid while...
AFP Promises by governments to cut carbon emissions “ring hollow” as long as they continue to funnel trillions of investment to oil, gas and coal projects,...
AFP Ghana’s parliament began hearing testimony Thursday on a bill that will further curb gay rights in a proposal widely condemned by the international community. The...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been without a political party since 2019, will join the right-wing Liberal Party (PL), it said Wednesday, as Brazil...
AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel has telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask him to get Belarus to stop the “inhumane” instrumentalisation of migrants, her spokesman...
AFP Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday that a new Iranian law aimed at raising the birth rate would put women’s lives at risk by denying them...
AFP An escaped fox, whose owners thought it was a dog, has been caught and sent to a zoo after terrorizing a Lima neighborhood, Peruvian authorities...
AFP Vanessa Moraes lives in a Rio de Janeiro slum, works multiple jobs to support her two sons and barely scrapes by on welfare. So buying...
AFP Erika Berenguer, an Amazon ecologist at Oxford and Lancaster universities, is one of the most prominent scientists studying how the rainforest functions when humans throw...
AFP A former nurse who murdered three patients by contaminating their intravenous drips with disinfectant was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by a Japanese...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ally, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, on Tuesday discussed a migrant stand-off on the border between Poland and Belarus, the...
AFP Four soldiers were killed Sunday in an ambush in northwestern Colombia that the army attributed to the Gulf Clan, the country’s largest drug trafficking gang....
AFP A mountain of discarded clothing including Christmas sweaters and ski boots cuts a strange sight in Chile’s Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which...
AFP Thousands of people on Saturday celebrated the progress made in Argentina by LGBTQ and women’s rights groups with hours of music and marches in downtown...
AFP A plane-spotting radar Ecuador started operating two weeks ago to curtail drug trafficking was hit by a non-deadly explosion Sunday, according to authorities who said...
AFP The United States on Saturday condemned a drone attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi, which it characterized as an “apparent act of terrorism.” “We...
AFP The US State Department announced Friday it would offer up to $5 million each for information that would help authorities capture and convict four Mexican...
AFP Fire tore through a hospital in western India on Saturday killing at least 11 coronavirus patients, officials said. The blaze was the latest to hit...
AFP The US State Department announced the approval Thursday of the sale of $650 million worth of air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia to help the country...
AFP Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece next month and will revisit the island of Lesbos, a major point of entry for migrants into Europe,...
AFP Workers laying gas pipes on a street in the Peruvian capital Lima stumbled on the remains of a pre-Hispanic gravesite that included 2,000-year-old ceramic burial...
AFP An upmarket neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia briefly resembled the award-winning Spanish crime series “Money Heist” on Thursday when 20 masked robbers engaged in a shoot-out...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday vowed to back Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko against foreign “interference”, as the two signed a series of agreements on...
AFP An albino activist was sworn in to Malawi’s parliament on Thursday, a first in a country where people with albinism have suffered discrimination and killings....
AFP The International Criminal Court will investigate whether crimes against humanity were committed during Venezuela’s clampdown on anti-government protests in 2017, President Nicolas Maduro and ICC...
AFP Two members of Chile’s indigenous Mapuche community died and three others were injured on Wednesday in clashes with security forces, the government said. The fighting...
AFP Scientists have identified a gene mutation that affects the brain’s ability to sense a body’s nutrition and can impact childhood growth and delay puberty, a...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday that he had ordered the troops who killed two Cuban migrants to be brought to justice because...
AFP Peru’s interior minister resigned Tuesday following reports that he held a Halloween party at his home in violation of Covid-19 rules. The South American country...
