AFP Argentina made a payment of $390 million Monday to the International Monetary Fund for interest on a $44 billion loan it is seeking to renegotiate,...
AFP At least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest assault to...
AFP A top US official lashed out Monday at China’s “confounding” failure to “step up” on global action to manage the climate crisis. President Joe Biden’s...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday apologized to world leaders for his predecessor Donald Trump’s withdrawal from a global climate accord and said fighting the...
AFP Brazilian authorities said Sunday that nine firefighters had died in a cave after the roof collapsed while they were training inside. The accident occurred as...
AFP US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday received a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot and urged Americans to follow suit. “I got the booster shot, and...
AFP Canada on Saturday pledged at the G20 summit to donate millions more Covid vaccine doses to poor countries worldwide. “Canada will donate the equivalent of...
AFP Queen Elizabeth II is in good spirits, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stressed on Saturday after doctors advised the 95-year-old monarch to rest for at least...
AFP Argentina’s ex-president Mauricio Macri was again subpoenaed Friday as part of a probe ito a wiretapping scandal, after the current president lifted an obstacle to...
AFP The Philippine government said Friday it will postpone elections key to ending decades of sectarian bloodshed in a troubled Muslim region, with the pandemic and...
AFP Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras reported a hefty net profit of $5.9 billion for the third quarter Thursday, beating analysts’ expectations as oil prices continued...
AFP A Colombian judge Thursday ruled that a severely ill woman who had her euthanasia cancelled at the last minute, may reschedule a procedure to die...
AFP Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 9.5 percent last year, mostly because of deforestation, a report said Thursday, making it one of the only major...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Thursday demanded that Sudan’s military immediately restore the nation to civilian rule, joining European and UN calls for an end...
AFP Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Greece on Thursday for her last official trip to a country with which she has had a fraught...
AFP Attention beach-lovers seeking a break from the pandemic: Rio de Janeiro is lifting its Covid-19 mask requirement for outdoor areas effective from Thursday, the state’s...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of 10,000 soldiers to secure next week’s local government elections, parliament announced Wednesday. The military will help...
AFP Indigenous and rural Ecuadorans blocked roads in several provinces Wednesday on the second day of protests against soaring fuel prices amid a countrywide state of...
AFP The number of political prisoners in Russia has risen sharply this year in a trend that recalls late Soviet-era repression, Russia’s leading rights group Memorial...
AFP Pope Francis will visit Canada as the Catholic Church seeks to rebuild bridges with the indigenous community following a horrifying scandal of abuse at church-run...
AFP Police in central China were hunting Tuesday for a man who killed seven people including a village Communist Party chief before jumping off a bridge,...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Tuesday denounced the military coup and “horrific violence” in Myanmar at a summit with ASEAN leaders, the White House said....
AFP Queen Elizabeth II resumed public duties on Tuesday for the first time since spending a night in hospital last week, holding video calls with incoming...
AFP US President Joe Biden will meet with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Rome on Friday, the White House said Tuesday. The bilateral meeting will be...
AFP The United States will open its land borders with Mexico and Canada in early November to non-essential travelers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a...
AFP Hospitals and telecommunication services in Haiti have warned that services could be halted due to fuel shortages caused by the growing grip of criminal gangs...
AFP An avalanche Sunday on a snow-capped Ecuadoran volcano, the highest peak in the country, killed at least three climbers and left three others missing, officials...
AFP Colombia’s government announced Sunday it is working towards extraditing the country’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” to the United States, a day after he was captured...
AFP Pope Francis on Sunday urged governments to stop returning migrants to countries like Libya where they are sent to detention centres rife with abuse, and...
AFP Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” has been captured, officials said Saturday, a major victory for the government of the world’s top cocaine exporter. Dairo Antonio...
AFP Sexual abuse victims in Colombia will be allowed to publish accusations against their alleged attackers on social media following a decision by the country’s top...
AFP Peru, which has the world’s highest Covid-19 death rate per capita, has surpassed 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Friday. The...
AFP The United States on Friday offered a $10 million reward for the arrest on money laundering charges of an associate of a businessman whose extradition...
AFP US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed strengthening European defenses in a telephone call Friday, the White House said as Washington seeks...
AFP Nicaragua on Thursday arrested the top two leaders of the country’s business owners’ union, police said, bringing the number of government opponents detained ahead of...
AFP A proposal by Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to dramatically increase welfare payments to the country’s underprivileged groups a year ahead of elections shook markets...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Thursday used the backdrop of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial to charge Republicans with following Donald Trump into a...
AFP Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the United States will soon launch an Amazon-wide regional pact to reduce deforestation, a bid to fight...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called Wednesday for the normalization of trade and diplomatic relations with Colombia, which have been nonexistent since 2019 when the government...
AFP The presidents of Panama, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic called on the United States Wednesday to take “concrete measures” to curb the migration of...
AFP A leader of the disbanded left-wing rebel group FARC returned to Colombia on Wednesday, just hours after he was briefly detained in Mexico under a...
AFP Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday ordered the immediate lifting of a coronavirus curfew in force since March 2020 and unveiled a stimulus package to...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso promised during talks Tuesday to uphold “democratic” values during a state of emergency against drug trafficking, visiting US Secretary of State...
AFP The United States will do all in its power to free US and Canadian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday....
AFP A top US Treasury official on Tuesday called for a “global effort” to combat cyberattacks and to prevent criminals from holding computer systems for ransom....
AFP President Joe Biden held intensive talks with competing factions of his Democratic party Tuesday in an attempt to save his agenda in Congress before time...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Monday declared a state of emergency in the country grappling with a surge in drug-related violence, and ordered the mobilization...
AFP Two people died, 56 were injured and 450 arrested as clashes broke out in Chile during mass street protests to mark the second anniversary of...
AFP The US Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a Texas law that bans most abortion in the state. President Joe Biden’s...
AFP Colombia President Ivan Duque said Monday he hopes the trial of a suspected money launderer extradited to the United States will shed light on Venezuelan...
AFP Police in Italy used water cannon and tear gas against protesters at the northeastern port of Trieste on Monday following a three-day demonstration against a...
AFP The body of one of the young Venezuelan migrants murdered in Colombia was repatriated Sunday following international outrage over their deaths. Colombian authorities said the...
AFP Former US president Bill Clinton was released from a California hospital Sunday after spending five nights in treatment for an infection. Clinton, arm in arm...
AFP Moscow said Friday that one of its warships chased away a US Navy destroyer after it attempted to violate Russia’s territorial waters in the Sea...
AFP The United States said Friday it has offered to pay unspecified compensation to relatives of 10 people in Afghanistan including seven children who were killed...
AFP President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday said it would ask the Supreme Court to block a ban on most abortions in Texas, in the latest...
AFP Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of misogyny after his veto of a law that intended to make sanitary towels free for millions of...
afp The World Health Organization told AFP on Friday it was drawing up a plan to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation following a damning scandal implicating...
AFP Argentina’s government on Thursday announced it had reached an agreement with the private sector to freeze prices on more than 1,200 goods in a bid...
AFP The US Navy said Thursday that personnel who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will be expelled from the force, ahead of the November 28...
AFP The number of young children admitted to hospital suffering for severe malnutrition in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region has doubled this year over 2020, the UN...
AFP US President Joe Biden, America’s second Catholic president, and his wife Jill will have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29,...
AFP The Central Bank of Chile on Wednesday announced a hike in its benchmark rate from 1.50 percent to 2.75 percent, the biggest hike in 20...
AFP Pamela made landfall on the western coast of Mexico on Wednesday as a Category One hurricane but weakened to a tropical storm as it moved...
AFP The World Health Organization unveiled Wednesday a proposed team of scientists tasked with looking at new pathogens and preventing future pandemics — plus reviving the...
AFP Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Tuesday announced a state of emergency and deployed troops to two southern regions where clashes have broken out between Mapuche...
AFP An army general who aligned with Venezuela’s late Hugo Chavez but later broke ranks with the socialist strongman and spent years as a prominent political...
AFP The iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer that towers over Rio de Janeiro celebrated its 90th birthday on Tuesday, with a Mass, a new song...
AFP The fossil of a jaw bone could prove that domesticated dogs lived in Central America as far back as 12,000 years ago, according to a...
AFP Three people have died and an eight-month-old baby is missing after a shipwreck off Panama’s border, Colombian officials said, near a route frequented by migrants...
AFP Colombian authorities are investigating the murder of two young Venezuelan migrants in the northeast of the country, sources said on Monday. Authorities said the two...
AFP A Taliban delegation will meet European Union representatives in Doha on Tuesday, acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said, following their first face-to-face talks with...
AFP Up to 3,000 residents of the Spanish island of La Palma on Monday were ordered to stay indoors after lava from a volcano destroyed a...
AFP One person died and 17 others were injured Sunday as riot police clashed with protesters in the Chilean capital during a rally by the indigenous...
AFP A record of almost 19,000 children have crossed the dangerous Darien Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama this year en route to the United States,...
AFP Iranian women fans hoping to attend a football match for the first time in two years will have to wait — Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier...
AFP Starving microorganisms capable of surviving in extreme conditions have already managed to “eat” a nail in just three days. In Chile, a scientist is testing...
AFP Latin America’s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 1.5 million Friday, according to an AFP tally drawn from official figures. The toll is at least 1,500,350...
AFP President Joe Biden put a gloss on disappointing job creation figures Friday by focusing on a drop in unemployment, which he said marks a “sign...
AFP The United States and Mexico on Friday vowed to overhaul their joint fight against drug cartels, during a visit by a high-level delegation including US...
AFP Police in Rio de Janeiro found a vast collection of Nazi uniforms and memorabilia in the home of an alleged child abuser, along with several...
AFP A court in Argentina has dismissed a case alleging Vice President Cristina Kirchner obstructed an investigation while president into an attack on a Jewish center...
AFP Clouds of thick ash from the volcano on La Palma on Thursday forced the island’s airport to close for the second time since the eruption...
AFP A row broke out on Thursday in France between the government and a leader of the Catholic church over whether confessions of child abuse made...
AFP Former Argentine president Mauricio Macri will miss a hearing this week in which he was to be questioned about alleged spying on relatives of 44...
AFP More than 50 migrants have died since the start of the year while trying to cross the Panama jungle in an effort to reach the...
AFP A vehicle packed with US-bound migrants traveling with a people smuggler crashed in eastern Mexico on Wednesday, leaving three Hondurans dead and 23 injured, authorities said....
AFP The bodies of 17 migrants have been found washed up on a Libyan beach after their boat capsized during a bid to reach Europe by...
AFP Two priests were acquitted on Wednesday of charges linked with sex abuse at a school for altar boys, after the Vatican’s first criminal trial for...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Europe was to blame for the current energy crisis after soaring gas prices spurred accusations that Moscow is...
AFP Pope Francis expressed his “great sorrow” for the victims of sexual abuse by French Catholic clergy after the publication on Tuesday of a devastating report,...
AFP President Joe Biden left Tuesday for a swing district in Michigan to try to bridge the divide in his Democratic party over an ambitious social...
AFP Disgraced former Peru president Alberto Fujimori underwent heart surgery Monday after his health deteriorated, said his daughter Keiko Fujimori, who is also his political heir....
AFP Bolivia’s opposition have called for demonstrations against left-wing President Luis Arce to demand the release of former head of state Jeanine Anez and an end...
AFP World tourism surged in July, thanks to vaccination rollouts and fewer travel restrictions, but traveller numbers still fell far short of pre-pandemic levels, the UN’s...
AFP Religious leaders including Pope Francis and the world’s top Sunni Islam cleric issued a plea on Monday for a forthcoming UN climate conference to act...
AFP US President Joe Biden offered his congratulations Monday to Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, saying the “historic partnership” between the two nations will help...
AFP A pregnant 15-year-old girl underwent an ultrasound on stage during an anti-abortion rights protest in Mexico City Sunday, where some 10,000 demonstrators prayed and shouted...
AFP Iranian women will be allowed to enter a stadium in Tehran for the first time in two years to support the national team in a...
AFP Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets around the country Saturday, once again calling for the ouster of unpopular President Jair Bolsonaro over...
AFP Former Argentine president Mauricio Macri will be questioned in a probe into spy claims regarding the 2017 sinking of a submarine that left 44 people...
AFP The EU on Friday made clear it is prioritising its approach towards regional elections in Venezuela next month over its stance towards opposition leader Juan...
AFP Relatives gathered Friday at a morgue in Ecuador, clamoring for news about loved ones locked up at a prison where 118 convicts were killed in...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in Paris next week in a new bid to ease tensions after French anger over a...
AFP At least 118 inmates died in rioting in an Ecuador jail this week before police regained control Thursday. Following the latest carnage, here is a...
AFP Russian and US diplomats held talks behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday which both sides described as constructive, in the latest round of discussions...
AFP Chilean lawmakers on Wednesday approved a law establishing the rights to personal identity, free will and mental privacy, becoming the first country in the world...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Mexico next week to discuss a new strategy to combat drugs and organized crime, Mexican Foreign Minister...
AFP Lava from the erupting volcano on La Palma in the Canary Islands that began cascading into the ocean 36 hours ago has already covered more...
AFP Nepal has introduced a third gender category in its census for the first time, a move the Himalayan nation’s LGBTQ community hopes will bring them...
AFP Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Wednesday for new efforts to promote coronavirus vaccination within Arab communities, which are now the leading hotspots of Covid...
AFP Nearly 30 prisoners were killed in a battle between inmates equipped with firearms and grenades at a prison in Ecuador’s largest city Tuesday, officials said....
AFP Candidates who topped the electoral lists of Russia’s ruling party in this month’s legislative elections will not take their seats in parliament, officials said on...
AFP The World Health Organization unveiled a plan Tuesday to bring meningitis under control by 2030, slashing the 250,000 annual deaths caused by the debilitating disease....
AFP Top US General Mark Milley testified Tuesday that calls he made to his Chinese counterparts in the turbulent waning months of Donald Trump’s administration were...
AFP Mexico celebrated the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence from Spain on Monday with a commemoration featuring fireworks, theatre, and pyrotechnics in the capital’s central...
AFP South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday asked the World Trade Organization to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines to bridge the huge gap...
AFP Five people were killed in an attack by suspected dissident members of Colombia’s FARC rebels, officials said Sunday. The deadly incident took place at a...
AFP The United Nations expressed concern Monday at “violence and xenophobia” meted out to undocumented migrants in Chile over the weekend by locals fed up with...
AFP Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations pulled out of delivering an address to world leaders at the General Assembly later Monday, a UN spokesperson said....
AFP Several dozen Haitian and Cuban migrants bound for the US border, including 14 children, were abandoned Sunday along a Guatemala roadside by people who transported...
AFP The latest talks between Venezuela’s government and opposition in Mexico were set to resume after representatives of President Nicolas Maduro turned up a day late,...
AFP About 3,000 people marched Saturday in the northern Chilean port city of Iquique to protest the presence of undocumented Venezuelans, with some demonstrators scuffling with...
AFP Thousands of shark fins were confiscated by Colombian authorities before they could be illegally shipped to Hong Kong, officials said. Bogota “seized 3,493 shark fins...
AFP A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops Friday when clashes broke out on the sidelines of a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, the...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Friday said he remains confident the two spending bills at the heart of his domestic agenda will pass in Congress...
AFP Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has appealed his conviction for the murder of George Floyd, citing 14 complaints about his high-profile trial earlier this...
AFP Several dozen demonstrators briefly occupied the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange on Thursday to protest widening economic inequality in inflation-hit Brazil under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro....
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urged all countries to raise their climate ambitions as the UN Security Council took up the environmental crisis,...
AFP US Treasury Janet Yellen stressed the need to finalize a global agreement on taxation to end the “race to the bottom” in a meeting with...
AFP A bipartisan effort spurred by the death of George Floyd to pass a police reform bill in Congress has collapsed, US lawmakers said Wednesday, in...
AFP Peruvian workers laying gas pipes found the remains of eight people buried in a common tomb with food and musical instruments some 800 years ago,...
AFP US President Joe Biden was to meet Wednesday with the warring wings of his Democratic Party in an effort to save his troubled economic plans....
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged the United States on Wednesday to act quickly to tackle the causes of the migrant crisis affecting the...
AFP Some 19,000 migrants, mainly Haitians, are amassed on the north coast of Colombia, from where they hope to cross to Panama and find a route...
AFP The bodies of eight migrants, including three women and a child, have washed up on the shores of southern Spain over the past two days,...
AFP Mexico has told the United States that it wants a regional agreement to tackle the tide of migrants arriving at the two countries’ borders, Foreign...
AFP Pope Francis joked that “some people wanted me dead” and cardinals were already preparing to replace him after his colon surgery this summer, according to...
AFP President Joe Biden will push back against the idea that the United States is plunging into a new Cold War with key rivals in his...
AFP The US State Department cast doubt Monday on the integrity of Russia’s parliamentary election, saying a government crackdown on critics had “prevented” citizens from exercising...
AFP Firefighters battling to protect the world’s biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said Friday they are optimistic it can be saved. Flames...
AFP The high-level 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly gets underway next week amid confusion about whether all delegates, including world leaders, have to...
AFP Four decades after Shining Path guerillas massacred dozens of their loved ones in the town square, residents of Santiago de Lucanamarca, a remote settlement in...
AFP Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez announced a new cabinet on Friday in a bid to smother a political crisis that pitted him bitterly against his vice...
AFP Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, one of 10 US House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump in January, said Thursday he would not seek re-election, citing...
AFP More than 10,000 undocumented migrants, many of them Haitians, were being held under a bridge in Texas on Friday, US officials said, posing a new...
AFP Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner directly challenged her boss, President Alberto Fernandez on Thursday, demanding a cabinet reshuffle and blaming the ruling coalition’s recent electoral...
AFP Brazil’s Covid-unvaccinated President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he will attend next week’s United Nations conclave in New York, effectively defying city authorities who recently announced...
AFP Two out of three children in Latin America and the Caribbean have not returned to the classroom after months of coronavirus lockdown, the UN said...
AFP The international community should take urgent action to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the IMF said Thursday. With the country currently cut off from...
afp Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman convicted of the murder of George Floyd, pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a separate case in which he...
AFP Accessing Rio de Janeiro’s tourist sites became conditional Wednesday on presentation of a coronavirus vaccine certificate, as authorities seek to encourage people to get their...
AFP Arizona on Tuesday became the first US state to file suit against President Joe Biden‘s Covid vaccination mandate for federal employees and businesses with more than...
AFP Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke out against “denier” cardinals who refused the coronavirus vaccine, in an apparent swipe at his main opponent who recently contracted...
AFP A Mexican court has sentenced former drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, who headed one of the country’s leading cartels, to 28 years in prison, prosecutors...
AFP The Kremlin said Wednesday there were no formal discussions on military cooperation with Mali, after France warned the West African country against hiring hundreds of...
AFP Almost 1,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to go on hunger strike in protest at their detention conditions since a jailbreak last week, the...
AFP The United States said Tuesday it had evacuated nearly 500 “military and civilian” Afghans from Uzbekistan, while the ex-Soviet country declared there were now no...
AFP Six months after being arrested on coup charges by a Bolivian government allied to her political rival Evo Morales, ex-president Jeanine Anez is still awaiting a...
AFP A suspected Shining Path guerilla was killed in clashes with soldiers and police in a remote coca leaf growing region of Peru’s high jungle, the...
AFP Colombia said Monday it was sending 300 troops to the border with Venezuela after five soldiers were killed in a rebel attack that Bogota claimed...
AFP Several hundred Brazilians protested against President Jair Bolsonaro and demanded his impeachment in Sunday demonstrations called by conservative groups, days after a massive mobilization supporting...
AFP Reduced agricultural production, water scarcity, rising sea levels and other adverse effects of climate change could cause up to 216 million people to migrate within...
AFP President Vladimir Putin on Saturday unveiled a huge monument to legendary medieval prince Alexander Nevsky as he praised a “strong” Russia ahead of parliamentary polls....
AFP President Joe Biden visited a 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon on Saturday, concluding his tour of all three sites hit in the hijacked jetliner attacks...
AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Belarus to help migrants instead of trying to send them across the border into the European Union, branding these...
AFP Russia on Saturday said it was ready to resume anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States as America marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11. In a...
AFP A tornado hit the Sicilian island of Pantelleria on Friday, killing two people and seriously injuring four others, the civil protection agency said. The whirlwind...
AFP The head of the WHO Europe was Friday pessimistic about vaccines’ ability to put an end to the Covid pandemic, as new variants dash hopes...
AFP Brazilian truck drivers rallying in support of President Jair Bolsonaro ended three days of road blockades across the country Thursday after the far-right leader asked...
AFP Tropical storm Olaf strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific on Thursday as it churned towards the beach resorts of Los Cabos on Mexico’s Baja...
AFP Covid-19 vaccines are expected to be made compulsory Thursday for Los Angeles schoolchildren aged 12 and over, the first such requirement by a major education...
AFP US President Joe Biden will announce wider vaccine mandates for federal employees as part of a new effort to wrestle Covid-19 back under control in...
AFP The death toll from a devastating prison fire in Indonesia has risen to 44, authorities said Thursday, as families rushed to submit DNA samples to...
AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday described herself as a feminist, saying her position on equality between men and women had developed over the years. ...
AFP Pope Francis on Wednesday announced a promotion for a Chilean priest who was one of the first to denounce child sex abuse in the clergy...
AFP Indian authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new Covid-19 wave had already begun in...
AFP Beijing said Wednesday it welcomed the end of “three weeks of anarchy” in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, calling...
AFP A judge in the US state of Ohio has said a hospital cannot be forced to administer an unproven treatment to a patient with Covid-19,...
AFP A South African former apartheid-era officer, accused of killing a liberation activist half-a century ago, died Tuesday weeks before his appeal against prosecution was due...
AFP President Joe Biden flew Tuesday to storm-ravaged New York and New Jersey, just days after inspecting the damage caused by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana —...
AFP The Philippines reimposed Tuesday a virus lockdown in the capital Manila, a day after announcing the lifting of stay-at-home orders for more than 13 million...
AFP Coronavirus cut average life expectancy in Italy by 1.2 years in 2020, and by more than four years in parts of the country hit hard...
AFP A Saint Petersburg court on Monday sentenced a Russian man to three years in a penal colony for hitting a police officer at a rally...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Doha on Monday, an AFP correspondent saw, ahead of crisis talks with the Qataris after the Taliban...
AFP Two atypical cases of mad cow disease have been detected in Brazil, resulting in suspension of its exports of beef to China, the Agriculture Ministry...
AFP US President Joe Biden will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by traveling to all the three sites of the attacks, the White House said...
AFP A top Venezuelan official signaled on Saturday that talks between the government and the opposition aimed at resolving the country’s long-standing political crisis have yielded...
AFP The bodies of three Palestinians were discovered on Friday after an underground tunnel from the southern Gaza Strip to Egypt collapsed, authorities in the Islamist...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he will travel next week to Qatar and Germany for talks on the Afghanistan crisis. Blinken told...
AFP Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a seminal case over the scope of the constitution’s protection of indigenous land. The powerful agribusiness lobby...
AFP President Joe Biden, who has made threats from climate change a priority, flies to New Orleans on Friday to tour damage from Hurricane Ida, which...
AFP Western Union announced on Thursday that it would resume its money transfer service to Afghanistan, allowing vital remittances into a country that faces huge economic hurdles...
AFP Defiant Afghan women held a rare protest Thursday saying they were willing to accept the burqa if their daughters could still go to school under...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday that he would propose constitutional reforms to reverse the effects of privatization in the electricity sector. The...
AFP The number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the burning season opened in August fell slightly from 2020, but remained close to the near-decade...
AFP Some 10,000 health workers in Greece faced being suspended as a deadline to get vaccinated against Covid-19 ran out on Wednesday, a union said. From...
AFP Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans Wednesday to instal up to 50,000 electric car charging points in Britain in the coming years. Shell...
AFP China’s special envoy for Asian affairs has wrapped an unannounced, week-long visit to Myanmar that included discussions with its junta leader on the country’s political...
AFP The ex-spokeswoman of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, on leave since July 2020 over alleged links to unlawful coronavirus contracts, has been given a warning...
