AFP The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for humanitarian access to Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol, and said over 90 attacks on health services...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukrainian authorities of being behind “crude and cynical” provocations in the town of Bucha as he spoke to...
AFP Chileans will vote in a mandatory referendum on September 4 to approve or reject a new constitution to replace the one enacted in 1980 by the...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have provided aid funds to artists and cultural programs hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic,...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s nominee for chief executive of state-run oil company Petrobras, economist Adriano Pires, withdrew his name from consideration Monday, media reports said....
AFP Brazil will hold its first tender for offshore wind energy by October, an environment ministry official announced Tuesday, saying the country has “unbelievable” potential in...
AFP The United States plans to seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council following apparent evidence of mass executions by Russian troops in Bucha,...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial over the alleged atrocities against civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, and said he wants...
AFP Brazil loosened its pandemic restrictions for international travelers Saturday, ending its Covid-19 test requirement for vaccinated passengers and scrapping a lengthy health questionnaire. Travelers will...
AFP China said Saturday it was not doing anything “to circumvent” sanctions imposed on Russia, following warnings from EU officials that any attempt to aid Moscow’s...
AFP Pope Francis said Saturday he was still considering a visit to Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv following invitations from the mayor and the president. Aboard the...
AFP US lawmakers backed the decriminalization of marijuana nationwide in a vote Friday that will eliminate punishments for providing or possessing the drug if is signed...
AFP US President Joe Biden met Wednesday with the parents of a former US Marine imprisoned in Russia and promised to work to end the “nightmare”...
AFP Human Rights Watch has called on Ukrainian authorities to launch an investigation into possible war crimes following the emergence of video footage that appears to...
AFP Pope Francis apologised Friday to Indigenous people for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, and said he hoped to visit the country in...
AFP Russian troops who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on February 24 began leaving the station and other exclusion zones on Thursday, Ukraine’s state nuclear...
AFP The United Nations launched a task force Thursday to pressure businesses to keep their emissions-cutting promises instead of masking progress with feel-good “greenwashing”. The group...
AFP At least 233 people died between 2019 and 2021 in Venezuelan hospitals due to electricity failures, a study published on Wednesday reveals. Oil-rich but crisis-wracked...
AFP A Brazilian lawmaker allied with President Jair Bolsonaro agreed Wednesday to be fitted with an ankle monitor after barricading himself inside Congress the night before...
AFP The Kremlin said Wednesday Russia will not immediately require its natural gas buyers to pay in rubles after Moscow said it will now only accept...
AFP Russian forces struck a Red Cross facility in the besieged and destroyed southern Ukraine port city of Mariupol, Kyiv and the aid group said Wednesday,...
AFP Russia’s anti-monopoly agency said Wednesday it was probing five leading sugar suppliers amid soaring prices and shortages in the wake of sanctions imposed on Moscow...
AFP At least 11 leftist rebels were killed in military operations on Colombia’s border with Peru, the army said on Tuesday. The rebels were suspected dissidents...
AFP White House records from the day of the attack on the US Capitol show a gap of almost eight hours in then-president Donald Trump’s phone...
AFP The United States still doubts that Russia is serious in talks with Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, after reports of progress...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from hospital on Tuesday morning, having spent the night at a military clinic in Brasilia after feeling unwell, the...
AFP The United States would spend $6.9 billion to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion and support NATO member countries under a budget proposal released Monday...
AFP An unusually long, intense and destructive rainy season in Ecuador has left 52 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials there said Saturday. In...
AFP Two German states on Saturday said they have outlawed public displays of the “Z” symbol used by the Russian army in their invasion of Ukraine....
AFP The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education won’t last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is...
AFP Joe Biden on Saturday in Warsaw met two Ukrainian ministers in the first face-to-face talks between the US president and top Kyiv officials since Russia’s...
AFP Russia’s defence minister reappeared on television images broadcast Saturday, after his two-week absence from view prompted questions from journalists. The defence ministry published a video...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro has gained ground ahead of Brazil’s October elections, but still trails well behind ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is seeking...
AFP Brazil is “clearly opposed” to barring Russia from the G20, the foreign minister said, as the US led a push to exclude Moscow from the...
AFP Christian Eriksen said Thursday he was “very pleased” to join up with the Denmark team, just nine months after suffering a cardiac arrest. Eriksen has...
AFP Russia’s Union of Journalists on Thursday accused YouTube of “censorship” and called for punitive measures, as fears mount that the US company maybe next in...
AFP Five people have been killed in an attack by armed rebels on an army base in the Central African Republic (CAR), regional officials said on...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian...
AFP Increasing levels of violence in Colombia are worsening the humanitarian situation for tens of thousands of people, the International Committee of the Red Cross said...
AFP The UN’s International Labour Organization said Wednesday it was halting all technical cooperation with Russia until it stops its war in Ukraine, further isolating Moscow...
AFP Russia’s ally Belarus said Wednesday it will expel most Ukrainian diplomats working in the country, accusing Kyiv of “interference” in its domestic affairs. “Belarus has...
AFP Brazilian opposition lawmakers called Tuesday for an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro and his education minister over accusations they inappropriately channeled federal funds to the...
AFP YouTube said Tuesday it would remove videos with unfounded accusations of fraud in Brazil’s 2018 elections, a claim President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly made as...
AFP A Russian court Tuesday found jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny guilty of additional charges of embezzlement and contempt of court and sentenced him to nine...
AFP Colombia’s top electoral body announced on Monday it was ordering a recount of votes from Senate elections earlier this month due to the large number...
AFP Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on China Monday to play an “important role” in efforts to resolve Kyiv’s conflict with Moscow. “We share Beijing’s...
AFP Ukraine said Monday that Russian troops had fired on protesters in Kherson demonstrating against Moscow’s seizure of the southern city soon after it launched its...
AFP The Supreme Court judge who had ordered messaging app Telegram blocked in Brazil reversed the ruling Sunday, after the tech company complied with an earlier...
AFP The death toll in a landslide in northern Peru has risen to eight with the recovery of a young child’s body, officials said Sunday. “With...
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called again for talks with Moscow on Saturday, saying they were the “only chance for Russia to minimise the damage done with...
AFP Two Brazilian Indigenous boys aged seven and nine have been found after surviving 25 days lost in the Amazon rainforest, where they ate fruit and...
AFP A notorious drug lord wanted by prosecutors in the United States escaped from a prison in Colombia on Friday, authorities confirmed. Juan Larrinson Castro Estupinan,...
AFP A Supreme Court judge in Brazil ruled Friday to block popular messaging application Telegram nationwide, barring one of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s favorite communication channels....
AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the French parliament on Wednesday as he pursues efforts to secure international help to end Russia’s invasion. “The war...
AFP Russian state television cut President Vladimir Putin’s speech mid-sentence as he was addressing tens of thousands of supporters at Moscow’s main football stadium on Friday. ...
AFP Chile’s GDP rose by 11.7 percent in 2021, its largest annual spike since record-keeping began in 1960, as the economy reopened following pandemic lockdown restrictions,...
AFP Peru’s constitutional court on Thursday ordered the release of disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, a...
AFP “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger appealed to Vladimir Putin on Thursday to end the “senseless” war in Ukraine and praised Russians protesting the conflict as his...
AFP The Ukraine offensive will expose “traitors” inside Russia, the Kremlin said Thursday, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s earlier call to “purify” Russian society. “In these situations,...
AFP Rescuers digging through a landslide in northern Peru said Wednesday they had recovered three dead bodies, including a one-month-old baby. A landslide Tuesday in the...
AFP Chile’s Constitutional Convention, which is drafting a replacement for the nation’s Pinochet-era charter, approved on Tuesday the inclusion of language protecting the right to an...
AFP The Justice Ministry awarded President Jair Bolsonaro Brazil’s “medal of indigenous merit” Wednesday, drawing criticism for granting the honor to a leader that indigenous groups...
AFP Brazilian environmental groups urged the European Union on Monday to pass aggressive legislation banning all imports linked to deforestation, criticizing “gaps” in a draft bill....
AFP Colombian officials said Monday that the son of a notorious paramilitary leader has won an election to be a special member of Congress representing victims...
AFP The Brazilian government on Monday assured the United States it will increase its oil production, a decision that could help ease concerns over global crude...
AFP Disgraced former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori returned to prison after an 11-day hospitalization with heart problems, his daughter announced Monday. The 83-year-old, currently serving a...
AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday condemned the “barbaric” invasion on Ukraine by Russian president Vladimir Putin and confirmed a fourth sanctions package...
AFP Put up your dukes, Vlad. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Monday challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a fight, with nothing less than...
AFP Russia said Monday that an attack by Kyiv’s forces on the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine had left 23 people dead, with the...
AFP Police were stepping up a search on Monday for a man suspected of the “cold-blooded” shootings of five homeless men in Washington and New York....
AFP Leftist former student leader Gabriel Boric, 36, was sworn in Friday as Chile’s youngest-ever president. “Before the people of Chile, I do swear,” Boric said...
AFP Brazil’s inflation rate hit a seven-year high for the month of February, the government said Friday, as hefty fuel-price hikes took effect that will only...
AFP The Finnish president used a call with Vladimir Putin on Friday to encourage the Russian leader to speak to his Ukrainian counterpart. Sauli Niinisto of...
AFP The WHO said Friday it has urged Ukraine to destroy any highly dangerous pathogens in its laboratories to avoid the risk of an outbreak as...
AFP Venezuela’s vice-president reiterated support for Russia on Thursday following a meeting with the country’s foreign minister in Turkey, where Moscow and Kyiv have been holding...
AFP Top European Union officials on Thursday condemned Russia’s bombing of a maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as a “war crime”. “Mariupol...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow was continuing to export oil and gas, including through Ukraine, where the Kremlin sent troops spurring a...
AFP Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras announced hefty increases in gasoline and diesel prices Thursday in response to the Ukraine crisis, ignoring President Jair Bolsonaro’s criticism...
AFP “My sunshine, my little one, we are going to win,” sobs a woman, stroking the wooden coffin. She is standing at the door of a...
AFP The Russian army on Wednesday admitted for the first time that conscripts were taking part in Moscow’s military advance in Ukraine, after President Vladimir Putin...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday providing for free menstrual supplies for low-income women and girls, five months after drawing criticism for vetoing...
AFP Guatemala’s conservative-led Congress approved on Tuesday a law ramping up the prison sentence for women who choose to have an abortion, while banning both gay...
AFP A woman was raped every 10 minutes last year in Brazil and there was a femicide every seven hours, according to a report published Monday,...
AFP Shares in Brazilian oil company Petrobras plummeted more than seven percent Monday after President Jair Bolsonaro criticized the organization’s pricing policy in the face of...
AFP Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes announced Monday the city would no longer require face masks indoors or outdoors, as hard-hit Brazil continues to bounce...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced the resumption of talks with the opposition, which were halted five months ago after the extradition of a presidential...
AFP EU chief Charles Michel on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a call to end his invasion of Ukraine and allow safe passage for...
AFP US President Joe Biden was to hold a video teleconference Monday with the leaders of France, Germany and Britain to discuss “the latest developments regarding...
AFP Queen Elizabeth II met visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, in her first in-person engagement since falling ill with Covid-19. The 95-year-old monarch,...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday dismissed as “irrelevant” Russian demands for guarantees that new sanctions linked to Ukraine will not affect Moscow’s...
AFP Chile said Saturday it is creating a vast national park to protect hundreds of glaciers that are melting due to climate change. The new National...
AFP A Brazilian state lawmaker known for his social media antics said he had traveled to Ukraine to help the army make Molotov cocktails for use...
AFP A retired Argentine bishop seen as close to Pope Francis was sentenced on Friday to four and a half years in prison for sexually abusing...
AFP Disgraced Peruvian former president Alberto Fujimori was rushed to hospital from prison after suffering from a heart problem, his doctor told AFP on Thursday. The...
AFP Argentina said Thursday it had finalized an agreement with the IMF to refinance a loan of $44 billion. The deal “seeks to continue generating conditions...
AFP Venezuela’s tourism minister on Thursday said the country will increase state airline flights to its ally Moscow, as many countries around the world, led by...
AFP A Ukrainian delegation said Thursday it was en route for a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia on the day Ukraine lost its first...
AFP President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela criticized Wednesday the barrage of Western sanctions slapped on Russia, bucking the global chorus of condemnation of its invasion of...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday proposed lifting a ban on mining in indigenous territories in the Amazon to offset potential fertilizer shortages due to...
AFP A small group of protesters urged the Panamanian government Wednesday to close the Panama Canal to Russian ships as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine....
AFP The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that it was “deeply concerned” by reports of attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine and that it was...
AFP A Colombian court has ruled that people should be able to have their gender registered as non-binary, rather than male or female, on official identity...
AFP In rare backing for Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday assured Vladimir Putin of his “strong support” in a...
AFP NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “shattered peace in Europe” by invading Ukraine, adding that the Western defence alliance...
AFP Russian troops will carry out an attack on what they said was the infrastructure of Ukraine’s intelligence services in Kyiv and urged residents living nearby to...
AFP On the sixth day of fighting in Ukraine Tuesday, Russia is striking cities and building up its forces near the capital Kyiv, vowing not to...
AFP Colombia and the United States announced on Monday a nuclear submarine was taking part for the first time in joint military exercises in the Caribbean...
AFP In a dimly lit mine shaft in Bolivia, a man sharpens two knives next to a table laden with offerings: wine, beer and coca leaves....
AFP Five Argentine couples who were in Ukraine to fetch babies born from surrogate mothers have escaped with their newborns, the foreign ministry in Buenos Aires...
AFP A methane explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia claimed ten lives, the national mining agency said Sunday, and a search has been launched...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Sunday that South America’s biggest country will remain “neutral” over Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The far-right Bolsonaro, who undertook...
AFP President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear forces alert represents a “totally unacceptable” escalation of the invasion of Ukraine, the United States said Sunday, accusing the Russian leader...
AFP The United States and Europe must “really stand together” in response to Russia’s military aggression and “threatening rhetoric”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday, adding...
AFP The political party formed from Colombia’s disarmed FARC guerrilla group said Friday that attacks against its members claimed two lives this week and nearly a...
AFP Poland’s Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker Saturday said 115,000 people had crossed the border into Poland from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion started this week. Just...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on the Ukrainian army to overthrow the government whose leaders he described as “terrorists” and “a gang of...
AFP “I used to repair car tires. Now I repair humans,” boasts Jose Bastidas, an amputee who left his auto repair job to make artificial limbs...
AFP Brazilian mining giant Vale on Thursday reported a net profit of $22.4 billion in 2021, nearly four times higher than the previous year, which it...
AFP Latin American countries are divided on Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, with most condemning military action but a few asserting Moscow’s “right to defend itself” against...
AFP The OSCE’s acting chairman, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, on Thursday slammed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “crime against humanity”. “We condemn in the...
AFP Poland’s prime minister said Thursday that neighbouring Ukraine was fighting for “the freedom of all of Europe” against the “barbarity” of Russia’s invasion. Moscow launched...
AFP The death toll from flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in the Brazilian city of Petropolis has surpassed 200, authorities said Wednesday, as...
AFP Bolivia’s former Interim President Jeanine Anez said Wednesday she had ended a two-week hunger strike, as she awaits trial in a La Paz prison for...
AFP Paraguay’s president on Tuesday fired his interior minister after a newspaper report accused him of using the armored vehicle of a presumed drug dealer on...
AFP Colombia’s president on Tuesday described as “heinous” a Constitutional Court ruling decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, a move he said bypassed Congress...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso announced Tuesday some 5,000 prisoners would be pardoned to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons, which were hit with riots that...
AFP The death toll from flash floods and landslides that hit the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 186, authorities said Tuesday, one week after...
AFP Ollanta Humala on Monday became the first ex-president of Peru to go on trial in a vast corruption case involving Brazilian construction group Odebrecht and...
AFP A retired Argentine bishop seen as close to the Pope, and who worked as an advisor for management of Vatican property, on Monday denied charges...
AFP The death toll from flash floods and landslides that hit the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 182, authorities said Tuesday, one week after...
AFP Construction workers at a building site in northern Gaza have uncovered 31 Roman-era tombs dating from the first century AD, the Palestinian territory’s Islamist rulers...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Moscow was considering recognising the independence of east Ukraine’s two separatist republics, a step that would further escalate...
AFP Russia’s foreign minister said Monday that he would meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday in Geneva, as tensions soar over a feared...
AFP The death toll from torrential rains that triggered flash floods and landslides in the scenic Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 165, authorities said Sunday,...
AFP Rescue workers pulled more bodies Saturday from the muddy wreckage left by devastating floods and landslides in the scenic Brazilian city of Petropolis, where the...
AFP Brazil lashed out Saturday at US criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent trip to Russia, after Washington chided the far-right leader for visiting Vladimir Putin...
AFP Pumalin and Liquine, two juvenile condors rescued from certain death, have been released back into the wild in a much-needed boost for a dwindling species emblematic...
AFP Police clashed Friday with masked and hooded anti-fascism protesters who threw stones and broke windows at a hotel hosting a meeting of far-right political groups...
AFP A Russian court on Friday sentenced in absentia the brother of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Oleg, to one year in prison for violating the...
AFP Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine’s self-proclaimed republics said rebel authorities will begin evacuating civilians to Russia on Friday as fears of a large-scale conflict grow....
AFP Venezuela has arrested 21 people, including former lawmakers and a mayor, in a massive months-long anti-drug-trafficking operation, the country’s attorney general said Thursday. They are...
AFP Colombian police halted a hearing Thursday for a notorious drug trafficker who was arrested late last year, saying they had found plans for a possible...
AFP The Kremlin said Thursday that Russia’s withdrawal of forces from around Ukraine’s borders would take place over an extended period, after reports of Moscow’s drawdown...
AFP President Ignazio Cassis has tested positive for Covid-19, the government said on Thursday — the same day Switzerland lifted almost all remaining coronavirus restrictions despite...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban Thursday, a day after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid fears Moscow is...
AFP Russian leader President Vladimir Putin welcomed “constructive” talks Wednesday with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was on his first official trip to Moscow, defying US...
AFP Argentine President Alberto Fernandez came to the defense Tuesday of his deputy Cristina Kirchner, testifying in a trial for alleged corruption committed when she was...
AFP The bodies of two men hung from a pedestrian bridge in southwestern Ecuador stunned the country Monday and raised the spectre of Mexican cartels there. ...
AFP Brazil publicly reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Kyiv on Monday as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro set off on an official visit to Russia amid soaring...
AFP France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Monday that “all the elements” were in place for Russia to wage a “major offensive” against Ukraine after...
AFP Chilean truck drivers lifted road blockades they had imposed to protest the killing of a colleague, after the government pledged new safety measures on Saturday....
AFP Thousands of pro-government demonstrators marched through Caracas Saturday in support of President Nicolas Maduro, with a smaller opposition rally gathering in parallel. To the sound...
AFP Eight civilians were killed by armed groups in recent days in Venezuela’s restive southwest region that borders Colombia, the country’s defense minister said Friday. Vladimir...
AFP Russia is operationally ready to conduct a wide range of military operations in Ukraine and the Kremlin just needs to make the call, the head...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro has waded into a swirling controversy over Nazism unleashed by a popular podcast in Brazil, saying it should be repudiated along with...
AFP Venezuelan prosecutors are investigating an alleged party held on a table-top mountain in a protected Amazonian national park, an official said Thursday. A group of...
AFP Venezuela’s most wanted criminal was among five people killed in a police and military operation, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said on Wednesday. Carlos Luis Revette,...
AFP Some call her a “political prisoner” but others claim she led a coup d’etat: former interim president Jeanine Anez will go on trial Thursday accused...
Several thousand protesters marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to denounce the agreement reached between the government of centre-left President Alberto Fernandez and the IMF on...
AFP Peru’s leftist President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday appointed a new cabinet, the fourth since he came to power six months ago, including replacing a prime...
AFP The number of Brazilian children aged six and seven who do not know how to read or write has risen by 66 percent during the...
AFP The front-runner in Colombia’s May presidential election apologized on Tuesday for a speech he gave the day before while under the influence of alcohol, which...
AFP At least 34 people are currently held hostage in Colombia, experiencing its worst wave of violence by armed groups since a 2016 peace deal ended...
AFP A Venezuelan court has officially handed over the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional to Diosdado Cabello, widely seen as the government’s number-two man. The...
AFP More than 100 African hippos descended from fewer than a handful imported as exotic pets by drug lord Pablo Escobar, face an uncertain future in...
AFP The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades claimed 28 lives in the capital Quito this week and left 52 people injured, the city’s mayor...
AFP Forest fires that have raged for days in Colombia’s Amazon on Saturday put its Andean capital, Bogota, on an environmental alert as bad air quality...
AFP The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades claimed 27 lives this week and left 53 people injured, municipal officials said Friday. The floods inundated...
AFP Argentina on Friday paid $370 million to the IMF as interest on a $44 billion debt that was rescheduled late last month, officials said. The...
AFP Iceland, one of the only countries that still hunts whales commercially together with Norway and Japan, plans to end whaling from 2024 as demand dwindles,...
AFP The Kremlin on Thursday urged the United States to stop inflaming tensions after Washington sent several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe...
AFP President Joe Biden said Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State group had been “taken off the battlefield” during a raid by US forces...
AFP At least 20 people died and 74 more were hospitalized in a Buenos Aires suburb after consuming cocaine cut with a toxic substance, possibly opioids,...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new record for January just three weeks into the year, according to data released Wednesday, a worrying sign...
AFP Washington and its NATO allies have offered Moscow arms control and trust-building measures to defuse the threat of a new Russian offensive against Ukraine, according...
AFP Two Afghan journalists detained by the Taliban earlier this week were released Wednesday, the news editor of their media organisation said. Since returning to power...
AFP Crowd limits at cultural and sports events will be lifted in Finland from February 14, the prime minister said on Wednesday, with most remaining coronavirus...
AFP An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country’s environmental ministry...
AFP The World Health Organization chief warned Tuesday that it is too early for countries to either declare victory over Covid-19 or give up attempts to...
AFP Colombia took umbrage Monday at being included in a report by UN agencies on 20 “hunger hotspots,” demanding to be removed from the list of...
AFP Japan’s military said Monday it was searching for a fighter jet that disappeared from radar shortly after taking off, with media reporting a “red glow”...
AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he had tested positive for Covid-19 but was not experiencing severe symptoms. The 50-year-old leader — who is...
AFP Torrential rains in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state between Friday and Sunday left at least 18 people dead, authorities said. “Since last Friday, the turmoil caused...
AFP Ecuador said it was monitoring the progress of an operation to clean up an oil leak in the Amazon jungle that threatens to pollute a...
AFP Residents in an inundated neighbourhood of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo are returning with dread to see what remains of their homes and harvests, three days after...
AFP At least 13 people died after a bus carrying pilgrims to a religious shrine in Mexico flipped over on Saturday, authorities said. Another 10 were...
AFP The oil spill off the coast of Peru sparked by a volcanic eruption thousands of miles away is twice as big as previously reported, the...
AFP Venezuela’s electoral authority, controlled by ruling party backers, on Thursday dismissed an opposition petition calling for a referendum on ousting the president. The National Electoral...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he will visit Russia next month, amid Moscow’s diplomatic standoff with the West which accuses it of preparing an...
AFP Argentine President Alberto Fernandez unveiled a new debt repayment deal with the International Monetary Fund on Friday, the day a $700-million repayment was due. The...
AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday that he had been exposed to Covid-19 and would isolate for five days, in accordance with health rules...
AFP Teams of workers raced Wednesday to clear mud and debris from the only transport access to the jewel of Peru’s tourism sector, Machu Picchu, following...
AFP Chile’s central bank on Wednesday announced a third successive hike in its benchmark interest rate in a bid to contain inflation, which is at a...
AFP The Vatican Wednesday defended ex-pope Benedict XVI, who was accused last week of knowingly failing to stop the sexual abuse of minors by four priests...
AFP Deliberate poisoning is likely to blame for the death of dozens of turtles at a lake near Mumbai, Indian wildlife experts told AFP Sunday. Conservation...
AFP Argentina’s economy grew 10.3 percent in the first 11 months of 2021 from the same period a year earlier, the Indec statistics institute said Tuesday....
AFP A fresh oil leak has occurred off the coast of Peru — already cleaning up after a major crude spill 10 days earlier — during...
AFP Russia on Tuesday added jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a list of “terrorists and extremists”, as authorities continue a clampdown on the opposition. Navalny...
AFP The Kremlin on Tuesday accused the United States of escalating tensions over Ukraine by putting 8,500 troops on alert. “The United States is escalating tensions,”...
AFP Almost 900 people were evacuated from the tourist town serving Machu Picchu, the Inca jewel of Peru’s travel industry, amid rains and floods that left...
