AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday issued a decree to fast-track citizenship for all Ukrainians, more than four months into Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. ...
AFP Argentina’s new economy minister said Monday the country would honor fiscal deficit goals and other commitments made under a deal struck with the IMF to...
AFP There were “undeniable” flaws in security for former prime minister Shinzo Abe, the head of police in the area where the leader was assassinated admitted...
AFP The man accused of assassinating Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been arrested and named by police as Tetsuya Yamagami. Police say the unemployed...
AFP A fourth person has been arrested as part of the investigation into the killings last month of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert...
AFP Argentina on Friday made a $1.28-billion down payment on a $45 billion loan with the International Monetary Fund, the terms of which were recently renegotiated,...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Friday said he was “stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened” by the assassination of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who...
AFP The suspected killer of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe admitted targeting the politician and said he held a grudge against an organisation he believed...
AFP Former McDonald’s restaurants in Russia are facing a shortage of French fries due to a poor harvest and Western sanctions over Ukraine, a business newspaper...
AFP One Canadian woman died and a fellow citizen was injured when an avalanche roared down the side of snow-capped Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador’s highest peak, rescue...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s communications director is quitting, the White House said Wednesday, the latest in a number of departures of high-ranking officials ahead of...
AFP Haiti on Thursday marked one year since president Jovenel Moise was shot dead in his private residence, with no mastermind or motive for the attack...
AFP The EU will prevent Russia using a G20 meeting in Indonesia as a “propaganda forum” for its disinformation on the impacts of its war in...
AFP An Argentine court on Wednesday sentenced 10 former members of the military and police to life in prison for crimes committed during the South American...
AFP Women in Iran’s second-largest city will be banned from taking the Mashhad metro if they are not wearing a head covering, local media reported on...
AFP The World Health Organization will reconvene its monkeypox experts to decide if the worsening outbreak now constitutes a global public health emergency, its chief said...
AFP Colombia’s leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro on Tuesday proposed a “bilateral ceasefire” with the violence-stricken country’s last active guerrilla group, the ELN, in order to restart...
AFP Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Tuesday accepted the resignations of four cabinet members, the government said, just days after damaging protests against the cost of...
AFP US President Joe Biden sought to strike an optimistic note of unity in an Independence Day speech on Monday overshadowed by a mass shooting at...
AFP Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min has revealed he faced racism as a teenage footballer in Germany and was happy to get “revenge” when South Korea knocked Germany...
AFP The head of Russian mining giant Nornickel, Vladimir Potanin, has said he is ready to discuss a merger with aluminium group Rusal to create a...
AFP The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox had been reported to it in the current outbreak, 85 percent of...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday denounced the role of Greek companies in the export of Russian oil, seeing it as a situation which “does...
AFP Ukraine’s national flag has been reinstalled on Snake Island, a military spokesperson said on Monday after the country regained control of the territory seized in...
AFP Rebuilding Ukraine is the “common task of the whole democratic world”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday, insisting the recovery of his war-torn country...
AFP Argentina appointed economist Silvina Batakis as its new economy minister Sunday after Martin Guzman, the architect of a debt restructuring deal with the IMF, unexpectedly...
AFP Pope Francis has said he is “greatly disappointed” he cannot make a planned visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday...
AFP In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they’re visiting...
AFP Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday. The world’s largest...
AFP Ecuador’s government on Friday reduced fuel prices as part of a deal that ended more than two weeks of disruptive protests paralyzing the country. The...
AFP A mosque in Berlin on Friday became the first in Germany to fly a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT community, ahead of two...
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Friday he was made to sit for hours under a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he described his...
AFP Unemployment in Brazil, Latin America’s biggest economy, fell below 10 percent for the first time since January 2016 for the three months of March to...
AFP Representatives of Ecuador’s government and Indigenous groups signed an agreement Thursday to end 18 days of sometimes violent protests against high living costs and fuel...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Thursday called for an “exception” to the Senate filibuster rule so that Democrats can pass an abortion rights law, reversing...
AFP NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg pledged more support for countries in Africa and the Middle East as the alliance looks to compete with Russia and China’s...
AFP A Brazilian appeals court on Wednesday increased the amount of compensation President Jair Bolsonaro must pay to a journalist for making degrading remarks about her....
AFP A close ally of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro resigned as head of the Caixa Economica Federal public bank following accusations of sexual harassment, the government...
AFP Colombia’s Truth Commission, established to probe atrocities committed during the country’s near six-decade civil conflict, presented its final, 896-page report on Tuesday. The document is...
AFP Ecuador’s government has suspended negotiations with protesting Indigenous groups, President Guillermo Lasso said Tuesday, after a soldier was killed in an attack blamed by a minister...
AFP The number of registered gun owners in Brazil rose by almost six times since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power and eased restrictions, an NGO...
AFP The main bloc of Venezuelan opposition parties said Tuesday that their representatives had met with a visiting US delegation and that they were ready to...
AFP Washington announced steps Tuesday to implement the new sanctions on Russia as agreed by G7 leaders, targeting Moscow’s defense industry and banning gold imports from...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday promised his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that Russia “is committed” to maintaining its delivery of much-needed fertilizers to the...
AFP A toddler was among four people killed when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed, injuring hundreds of others, officials said Monday. One person died...
AFP The board of directors at Brazilian oil giant Petrobras on Monday approved President Jair Bolsonaro’s pick to be the state-controlled company’s chief. Caio Paes de...
AFP At least four people were killed and more than 300 injured on Sunday when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed during a popular...
AFP A truckers union in Peru has declared an indefinite strike from Monday after failed negotiations with President Pedro Castillo’s government over fuel prices. Peru’s government...
AFP Peru’s government on Sunday declared that a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections had begun to hit the country, which has one of the highest mortality...
AFP Violent clashes between Indigenous protesters and police continued for a second straight day in Ecuador’s capital Friday, after the country’s president accused demonstrators of seeking...
AFP President Joe Biden left the White House Saturday for a week of diplomacy in which he hopes to reinforce the Western alliance against Russia and...
AFP Bruno Pereira, the Brazilian Indigenous expert murdered in the Amazon with British journalist Dom Phillips, was given a moving sendoff Friday by members of one...
AFP Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has denounced as “unacceptable” an 11-year-old girl’s abortion of a fetus that was the result of rape. The girl, according...
AFP Workers at Chile’s state mining company Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, called off an open-ended strike Thursday after reaching agreement with the government. The...
AFP The bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were handed over to their families Thursday, nearly two and half weeks after...
AFP Venezuela has sentenced 24 military police officers who mutinied during anti-government protests in 2019 to as much as nearly 16 years in prison, a human...
AFP Two women and three children died in a Buenos Aires apartment building fire Thursday that saw 35 others rushed to several hospitals, emergency services said. ...
AFP Most children in Latin America and the Caribbean under the age of 11 are unable to understand simple written texts due to an “educational catastrophe”...
AFP A Brazilian former education minister accused of influence peddling, allegedly at the request of President Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested Wednesday, police and a defense lawyer...
AFP Eighteen police officers are “missing” following an attack by Indigenous protesters on a police station in Ecuador’s eastern Amazon region, the interior minister said on...
AFP US health authorities are expected to order Juul Labs to stop selling e-cigarettes in the world’s biggest economy, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The...
AFP Workers at Chile’s state mining company Codelco, the largest producer of copper in the world, went on an “indefinite” strike on Wednesday, unions said, protesting...
AFP A suspected drug trafficker known as the “Pablo Escobar of Brazil,” was arrested in Hungary on Tuesday after more than a year on the run,...
AFP Brazil’s leftist former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who heads the presidential election race, announced Tuesday that his priorities in power would be social...
AFP Colombia’s last recognized guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), said Monday it was ready to reopen peace talks with the government after Gustavo Petro...
AFP The head of Ecuador’s armed forces on Tuesday denounced as a “grave threat” to democracy the wave of Indigenous-led fuel price protests that have triggered...
AFP A Ukrainian court on Monday banned the country’s largest pro-Russian political party and seized its assets nationwide after the group was accused of undermining the...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency in three provinces late Friday in response to sometimes violent protests by Indigenous people demanding cuts...
AFP Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras announced Friday it is raising fuel prices, infuriating President Jair Bolsonaro as he faces an inflationary spike and a re-election...
AFP Four men who confessed to killing a Paraguayan prosecutor during his honeymoon on a beach in Colombia received 23-year prison sentences Friday, prosecutors said. Marcelo...
AFP The United States plans to propose a new initiative to address Pacific island issues next week as it scrambles to offset China’s thrust into the...
AFP The World Health Organization on Friday called on all nations to invest more in mental health, saying “the suffering is enormous” and has been made...
AFP Russia has already “strategically lost” its war with Ukraine, suffering heavy losses and strengthening NATO, the UK’s chief of defence staff said in an interview...
AFP A shooting at a church in the US state of Alabama left two people dead and one wounded Thursday, police said. It happened at St...
AFP Indigenous Ecuadorans used burning tires, tree trunks and stones Thursday to block access to the capital, Quito, on the fourth day of protests against high...
AFP No member of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was among the 19 crew of a Venezuelan plane grounded outside...
AFP Human remains were found buried at a site in the Brazilian Amazon during a search for a missing British journalist and an Indigenous expert, a...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro drew fresh criticism Wednesday for saying a British journalist missing in the Amazon was “disliked” for his reporting on the region...
afp A Colombian court on Wednesday ordered the two men in this weekend’s presidential election runoff to hold a public debate, something one of them —...
AFP The UN rights chief said Wednesday her office was investigating allegations that children are being sent from war-torn Ukraine to Russia and then offered up...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday recalled the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as he pressed Europe for further help in responding to Russia’s war...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rang the bell at the Sao Paulo stock exchange Tuesday to mark the start of trading in shares of newly privatized...
AFP Police in Brazil said Tuesday they had arrested a second suspect in the disappearance earlier this month of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous...
AFP Authorities combing a remote corner of the Amazon for signs of a missing British journalist and Brazilian indigenous expert are investigating a patch of earth...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell in May from the same month last year, but came in at the second-highest level on record for the...
AFP Colombia’s army has killed a Marxist rebel leader in the country’s southwest, President Ivan Duque said on Monday. Leider Johany Noscue, a dissident from the...
AFP Indigenous protesters blocked roads across Ecuador Monday to demand a fuel price cut, in the latest such demonstration amid rising inflation, unemployment and poverty in...
AFP Personal items belonging to a missing British journalist and an indigenous expert have been found in the Amazon region where the men disappeared one week...
AFP Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned a security summit Friday that “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow”, as concerns grow that China could invade...
AFP Authorities combing a remote corner of the Amazon for signs of a missing British journalist and Brazilian indigenous expert are investigating a patch of earth...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell in May from the same month last year, but came in at the second-highest level on record for the...
AFP Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, more than a year after her arrest for an alleged plot — dismissed...
AFP With wheat prices skyrocketing due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, major producer Argentina faces its “worst planting scenario in 12 years” of the crucial grain,...
AFP Brazil has confirmed its first case of monkeypox in a 41-year-old man who had traveled to Europe, the health ministry announced Thursday. Monkeypox is a...
AFP The bodies of all 14 men trapped by an explosion in a coal mine in northeast Colombia last week have been recovered, the country’s National...
AFP More than 100 people have sought medical treatment this week after suspected exposure to a pollutant in an area known as the “Chilean Chernobyl” for...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for Russia to be expelled from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, blaming Moscow for spurring the global...
AFP British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that any attempts to impose a “bad peace” on Ukraine, through granting territorial concessions to Russia, would be...
AFP Russia said Thursday it was ready to broker a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as Moscow seeks to reassert its influence on the world...
AFP Clashes between legal and illegal small-scale miners in a remote southern region of Peru left 14 dead, police said on Wednesday. The violence broke out...
AFP Vatican investments will from now on be scrutinised by an in-house committee on the orders of Pope Francis, following a scandal over the controversial purchase...
AFP Ukraine on Wednesday criticised comments by former German chancellor Angela Merkel who has insisted she was not naive in her dealings with Russian President Vladimir...
AFP Colombia’s army has shared unprecedented images of the legendary San Jose galleon shipwreck, hidden underwater for three centuries and believed to have been carrying riches...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for an official visit as other Latin American leaders gathered for a summit in Los Angeles,...
AFP Argentina’s president vowed Monday to pursue a special tax on company profits boosted by the war in Ukraine, a phenomenon he described as an “immorality”...
AFP Bolivian prosecutors said Monday they would seek a 15-year jail term for ex-president Jeanine Anez, who is on trial for an alleged plot — dismissed...
AFP A sharp economic slowdown and rising inflation threatens to swell the ranks of food insecure people in Latin America and the Caribbean by nearly eight...
AFP Beijing on Monday warned Australia to “act prudently” or face “serious consequences” after Canberra accused a Chinese fighter jet of dangerously intercepting one of its...
AFP Australia’s federal court ordered Google on Monday to pay more than $500,000 in damages to a politician after finding he had been defamed by a...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met troops on the frontlines in Donbas Sunday as heavy fighting raged in the eastern industrial region that Moscow has focused...
AFP Moscow warned Monday that it would respond to Western supplies of long-range weapons to Ukraine by stepping up efforts to push Kyiv’s forces further from...
AFP Russia’s army said Saturday that some Ukrainian military units were withdrawing from the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. “Some units of the Ukrainian...
AFP The death toll in an explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Colombia has risen to seven, while eight workers remain unaccounted for, the National...
AFP Emergency workers in Brazil ended their search Friday for victims of deadly floods and landslides that hit the country’s northeast, after finding the body of...
AFP At a Rio de Janeiro pastry shop, customers are waiting in line to buy waffles — but the chocolate-covered treats come with a twist that...
AFP The Kremlin said Friday that Russia had achieved some results from its military campaign in Ukraine, 100 days after Moscow sent troops into its pro-Western...
AFP Myanmar’s junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in...
AFP South Africa’s police minister on Friday decried a “brutal” surge in murders and other violent crime, in a nation that was already among the world’s...
AFP India defended its record on religious tolerance Friday and rebuked the United States for its own rights issues after a report accused Indian officials of...
AFP Russia accused Germany of “remilitarising” Friday, using language that summoned up its Nazi past. Germany’s government and conservative opposition struck a deal Sunday to release...
AFP Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia controls about one-fifth of his country, including ground gained over Moscow’s invasion, the annexed Crimean peninsula and...
AFP Rescuers were continuing on Wednesday to try to free 14 miners trapped for two days in a coal mine in Colombia following an explosion that...
AFP Colombia’s two remaining presidential candidates were almost neck and neck in a poll published on Wednesday, ahead of the June 19 run-off. In the first...
AFP Brazil’s economy grew by one percent in the first quarter of the year, the government said Thursday, though surging inflation continues to hurt the Latin...
AFP At least 33 people remained missing and 11 were confirmed dead Wednesday after Hurricane Agatha swept through Mexico, local officials said. The storm made landfall...
AFP Argentina announced on Tuesday that it has reached agreement with the Paris Club of creditor countries to defer repayment of a debt of more than...
AFP Fourteen miners are trapped in a coal mine in northern Colombia after an underground explosion, the mayor of the town said on Tuesday. A miner...
AFP Russian forces control half of the east Ukraine city of Severodonetsk, a Ukrainian military official said Tuesday, as Moscow’s army continues an unrelenting push deeper...
AFP President Joe Biden on Tuesday holds a rare White House meeting with the head of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, to discuss soaring inflation and...
AFP Paraguayan authorities announced on Monday they are looking for two German children that arrived in the country in November, in each case without the consent...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro defended Brazil’s federal highway police Monday after officers were accused of asphyxiating to death a man they forced into the trunk of...
AFP Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday called for increased military spending in light of the security threat posed by Russia as Spain marked 40 years...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Monday he would not send rocket systems to Ukraine that could hit targets well inside Russian territory, despite urgent requests...
AFP German judges and experts have arrived at the edge of a melting glacier high up in the Peruvian Andes to examine a complaint made by...
AFP Torrential rains drenching northeastern Brazil since Tuesday have left at least 44 dead and another 56 missing, the government said Sunday in an updated toll....
AFP Mexico’s energy regulator fined Spanish firm Iberdrola $467 million for improperly selling electricity to third parties in violation of domestic “self-supply” laws, a document published...
AFP Russian forces Saturday announced a latest successful test of their Zircon hypersonic cruise missile as Moscow steps up its Ukraine offensive. The missile was fired...
AFP Russia’s army confirmed Saturday it had seized the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, on the road to two key cities still under Kyiv’s...
AFP With its thong-covered beaches, flesh-flaunting carnival and sultry nightlife, Rio de Janeiro has a racy reputation, but it rose to a new level Friday when...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak via videolink with EU leaders on Monday as the bloc struggles to agree oil sanctions on Russia in the teeth...
AFP The World Health Organization cautioned Friday that some 200 monkeypox cases found in recent weeks outside of countries where the virus usually circulates could be...
AFP A fugitive member of Colombia’s Gulf Clan drug cartel wanted by the United States has been killed by police in the South American country, the...
AFP Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has gained ground against incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the vast South American country’s October election,...
AFP The United States will not invite representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or Nicaragua at the Summit of the Americas next month in Los Angeles,...
AFP Venezuela’s state bank said on Wednesday it would sell up to 10 percent of its shares as part of the government’s plan to inject capital...
AFP Colombia’s defense minister Diego Molano on Wednesday announced the “presumed death” of one of the main leaders of a dissident left-wing guerrilla group, killed earlier...
AFP A strong 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said, with Peruvian authorities adding there were no dead or injured....
AFP The WHO chief told member states Wednesday that he was fully committed to reforms needed to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse by staff, acknowledging more...
AFP Russia’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law scrapping an upper age limit for people signing up to join the army, in a sign Moscow may...
AFP The price of shares in Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras fell Tuesday in reaction to President Jair Bolsonaro firing its boss after only 40 days...
AFP Argentina on Tuesday announced an easing of foreign exchange controls for the shale oil and gas industry in a bid to promote investment and boost...
AFP Top allies of President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow was ready for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine in order to achieve the Kremlin’s goals...
AFP A police raid in a Rio favela early Tuesday left 11 people dead, authorities in the Brazilian city said. Military police said they came under...
AFP Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez and the first lady on Monday paid a fine of three million pesos (about $24,000), in the form of a charitable...
AFP A recession in the United States is not inevitable, President Joe Biden said Monday, while acknowledging the economic pain experienced by Americans as inflation soars....
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that 87 people were killed in a Russian attack earlier this month on a military base in a region...
AFP Russia said Monday it was looking over an Italian peace plan proposal to end the conflict in Ukraine. “We have received it recently and are...
AFP The United States will increase aid to Latin America to combat HIV/AIDS, First Lady Jill Biden said on Saturday during a visit to Panama. Biden...
AFP Ingrid Betancourt, who was abducted 20 years ago while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency and held captive by FARC rebels for more than six years, has...
AFP Popular Pacific Ocean tourist destination Easter Island will reopen to the world on August 1, after more than two years closed due to the pandemic,...
AFP Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday renewed his attacks on the country’s electronic voting system ahead of October elections in which he will face...
AFP Authorities in Ecuador on Friday arrested and re-imprisoned former vice-president Jorge Glas, after a court ordered he must serve out the rest of a corruption...
AFP Undefeated boxing star Floyd Mayweather will fight “Dangerous” Don Moore in a rearanged exhibition bout in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, organisers said on Friday. The...
AFP President Vladimir Putin on Friday called for “technological sovereignty”, saying Russia has been hit by numerous cyberattacks since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. “The number...
AFP Coats and scarves have come out prematurely in Brazil, as the south of the tropical country experiences a record-breaking cold spell, a menace for both...
AFP An Argentine court on Thursday found the state responsible for the massacre of more than 400 indigenous people almost a century ago, and ordered remedial...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to meet with billionaire Elon Musk on Friday, according to a government source. The meeting will be held in...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Thursday welcomed the leaders of Finland and Sweden in a strong show of support for their bids to join NATO...
AFP Overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed nationwide access to abortion in the United States, would be contrary to international human rights standards,...
AFP Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the front-runner in Brazil’s October presidential elections, took a break from campaigning Wednesday to marry his fiancee and fellow Workers’...
AFP The campaign team of leftist Gustavo Petro, leading in opinion polls in Colombia’s presidential race, on Monday demanded an “immediate” audit of vote-counting software less...
AFP A 112-year-old Venezuelan farmer has been officially recognized as the oldest living man following the death of a Spaniard who was the previous holder of...
AFP The White House on Monday uncharacteristically lashed out at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, after he openly criticized the Biden administration’s fiscal and economic policies on...
AFP Venezuela’s main opposition on Monday announced primaries in 2023 to elect a single candidate to stand against incumbent Nicolas Maduro in the country’s next presidential...
AFP Chile ordered the redeployment of its military to the Araucania region in the south of the country Monday, in the face of mounting violence linked...
AFP Sweden will apply for membership in NATO as a deterrent against Russian aggression, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said Monday, reversing two centuries of military...
AFP Russia’s defence ministry said Monday that an agreement has been reached to evacuate injured soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of...
AFP The home of Chilean Defense Minister Maya Fernandez was robbed by attackers who beat her son and threatened her husband, authorities said Saturday. Fernandez, a...
AFP Gunmen in Brazil opened fire outside a bar in the northern city of Altamira, killing four people and wounding four others, officials said Sunday. Security...
AFP A Russian soldier accused of killing a civilian during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine appeared in court in Kyiv on Friday ahead of the first war...
AFP Moscow on Friday advised its citizens against travel to the United Kingdom, citing London’s “unfriendly” stance as well as huge delays in visas for Russians....
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that French leader Emmanuel Macron is trying “in vain” to have a constructive dialogue with Russian President Putin, according to...
AFP Police in Rio de Janeiro have torn down a small memorial to the 28 people killed last year in an anti-drug trafficking operation in the...
AFP Colombia on Thursday became the first Latin American country to authorize assisted medical suicide for patients under a doctor’s supervision, according to a constitutional court...
AFP A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook Lima and a large surrounding area Thursday, alarming many locals but with no immediate reports of damage or injury, the National...
AFP Thousands of Argentines brought central Buenos Aires to a standstill on Thursday in another massive protest against the South American country’s soaring inflation. The “Federal...
AFP A journalist who was shot near May Day protests in the Chilean capital Santiago died on Thursday, a hospital official said, as the country’s president...
AFP China said Thursday it was ready to “fully support” North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official Covid-19 case and...
AFP Hundreds of Brazilian companies and environmental groups urged President Joe Biden to make good on US climate pledges as lawmakers in Washington prepared to debate...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro changed his energy minister Wednesday after repeatedly criticizing fuel-price hikes by state-run oil company Petrobras, blamed for driving inflation that is...
AFP Brazil’s inflation rate hit a 26-year high for the month of April, the government said Wednesday, as spiraling prices continued to defy the central bank’s...
AFP The global coalition against the Islamic State group gathered Wednesday in Morocco to coordinate efforts to prevent the jihadists staging a revival in the Middle...
AFP The global cost of cybercrime topped $6 trillion last year, as the coronavirus pandemic caused online activity to soar, the head of Italian defence, security...
AFP US consumer price inflation slowed slightly last month, jumping 8.3 percent compared to April 2021, according to government data released Wednesday. The annual increase in the...
AFP Four students have been arrested after a stampede at a Bolivian university left four of their peers dead and 85 injured, police said on Tuesday....
AFP China’s zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is not sustainable, the World Health Organization’s chief said Tuesday, adding that the WHO had told Beijing so....
AFP Overturning the right of US women to get an abortion would have steep economic costs, curtailing their earnings and pushing more children into poverty, Treasury...
AFP A stampede at a university in Bolivia Monday left four students dead and more than 70 injured when a tear gas grenade was detonated during...
AFP At least 43 inmates died on Monday in Ecuador’s latest grisly prison riot, the public prosecutor said. Authorities said a fight broke out between the...
AFP President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russian forces in Ukraine were defending the Motherland from an “absolutely unacceptable threat,” as he opened the annual parade...
