AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday his American counterpart Joe Biden’s administration had “almost an obsession” with environmental issues, which he said was hurting US-Brazil...
AFP Heavily armed gangsters strapped hostages to their getaway cars after robbing two banks in Brazil, in a rampage that left three people dead, police and...
AFP Millions of Mexican schoolchildren began returning to classrooms on Monday after more than a year of distance learning, despite another wave of Covid-19 infections sweeping...
AFP A US woman has won a court order for a hospital in Ohio to treat her husband, who is on a ventilator with Covid-19, with...
AFP China on Monday announced a drastic cut to children’s online gaming time to just three hours a week during term time, the latest move in...
AFP A Brazilian court has sentenced Francoise de Souza Oliveira to 31 years in prison for murdering her husband, Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, authorities said Sunday....
AFP Scientific experts sent to the Galapagos Islands to count a critically endangered lizard species estimate there to be just 211 pink iguanas left, local authorities...
AFP Lawyers for Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez, in jail since March, said Friday they were appealing to a regional UN rights body for her. Attorney Luis...
AFP Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden’s administration of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in...
AFP A US air strike in Afghanistan killed two high-profile ISIS targets and left another wounded, the Pentagon said Saturday. No civilians were hurt in the...
AFP At least 21 people were killed and dozens remain missing as a boat packed with passengers and a sand-laden cargo ship collided Friday in a...
AFP A local legislator in Argentina was in stable condition Friday after being shot in the stomach while campaigning, doctors said. Miguel Arias, who represents the...
AFP Russia has fined two activists for organising a demonstration in support of Afghan women who face an uncertain future after the Taliban returned to power...
AFP The United Nations Security Council urged the international community to bring the perpetrators and instigators of the twin suicide bombings at Kabul airport to justice,...
AFP Sudan has received more than $857 million as part of a global allocation by the International Monetary Fund to help vulnerable countries, the central bank...
AFP Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday condemned the deadly attack outside Kabul airport and said Madrid was working to “evacuate as many people as...
AFP The Pentagon rejected reports Thursday that they are preparing to end evacuations from Afghanistan before this weekend, saying the operations from Kabul airport will continue...
AFP The death toll from heavy rains that triggered mudslides and floods in western Venezuela has risen to 20, local authorities said Wednesday, with 17 other...
AFP More than 750,000 Italians have signed a petition calling for the legalisation of euthanasia, organisers said on Wednesday, exceeding by far the half-a-million threshold needed...
AFP A 52-year-old Afghan woman stuck in a makeshift migrant camp on the border between Belarus and Poland risks dying without urgent help, a charity helping...
AFP Five members of a girls robotics team in Afghanistan were welcomed to Mexico Tuesday after fleeing their Taliban-controlled country. The team members, none of whom...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed their countries will step up efforts to counter “threats” emerging from Afghanistan following...
AFP President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday Russia would not interfere in Afghanistan and that Moscow had learned from the Soviet occupation of the country, a week...
AFP A woman convicted of witchcraft during the 17th-century Salem trials is expected to be pardoned thanks to a group of campaigning US schoolchildren. Elizabeth Johnson...
AFP Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that US forces are “pawning off” Afghans fleeing the Taliban to neighbouring Moscow-allied Central Asia. During a visit...
AFP Around 16,000 people were evacuated over the past 24 hours from Afghanistan through the Kabul airport, the Pentagon said Monday, as the US speeds toward...
AFP New York announced a vaccine mandate for all public school staff, including teachers and principals, Monday as the city escalates attempts to slow the spread...
AFP Bolivia’s jailed former president Jeanine Anez attempted to take her own life in prison on Saturday, her lawyer said, a day after prosecutors charged her...
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry pledged Friday to organize elections as soon as possible despite the devastation of last week’s earthquake, in a nation still reeling...
AFP Hurricane Grace rapidly strengthened into a major Category Three storm on Friday as it barreled towards Mexico for a second time, triggering warnings of significant...
AFP The Bolivian prosecutor’s office said on Friday it had filed charges of “genocide” and other crimes against former acting president Jeanine Anez, over the death...
AFP Human Rights Watch accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday of violating the right to free speech by blocking critics on social media, where the far-right...
AFP One of Italy’s most wanted international drug barons has been arrested in Dubai, police said on Thursday, following more than six years on the run....
AFP Pope Francis accepted a Brazilian bishop’s resignation Wednesday amid a scandal over a leaked sex tape and allegations he covered up cases of sexual abuse...
AFP Cuba published on Tuesday its first cybersecurity law, a move critics dismissed as a tool to limit political and civic freedoms on the Caribbean island....
AFP US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed Afghanistan on Tuesday and announced a virtual summit of the G7 leaders on the...
AFP Canada is temporarily closing its embassy in Kabul after evacuating staff ahead of Taliban fighters’ arrival in the Afghan capital, the Foreign Ministry in Ottawa...
AFP Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe denied responsibility for the murder of thousands of civilians by the military during his government’s crackdown on guerrillas in testimony...
AFP The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, congratulated the Taliban on Monday for their “victory” in returning to power in Afghanistan. Hamas...
AFP Fires tore through the hills west of Jerusalem for a second day on Monday as firefighters struggled to contain an expanding blaze, Israeli police and...
AFP Japan braced for further downpours on Sunday as rescuers sifted through flood and landslide damage after record rain that left at least three dead. Residents...
AFP Qatar called on the Taliban to adopt a ceasefire and reduce escalation Saturday as the insurgents’ lightning advance across Afghanistan entered a decisive phase. Doha...
AFP Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday began sending back some 800 unaccompanied migrant minors to Morocco three months after they arrived en mass,...
AFP Devastating wildfires in Bolivia consumed 749,000 hectares from January to July, the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) NGO said on Thursday night. FAN said it...
AFP Argentina on Thursday began distributing the first batch of more than one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine produced domestically. The South...
AFP Venezuela’s government and opposition will restart talks in Mexico with sanctions, political prisoners and elections on the table, but not the future of President Nicolas...
AFP Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP has reached a deal with the workers’ union at the world’s biggest copper mine, in Chile, which could prevent them going...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro drew criticism Tuesday for presiding over a military parade outside the presidential palace, a show of strength as he fends off...
AFP Before one of California’s worst-ever wildfires hit Greenville, the sky turned dark red like a warning. After the flames tore through the tiny town, all...
AFP/Editor Humanity can no longer delay “ambitious” climate action, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday after the release of a landmark UN report warning...
AFP/Editor US authorities said Saturday they were searching for five people missing as a huge wildfire raged in northern California, leaving two towns in little more...
AFP/Editor Forest fires this year have consumed more than 147,000 hectares (360,000 acres) in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department, the regional government reported Saturday. As in...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached near-record levels for the 12 months through July, according to figures released Friday, the latest bleak news for the...
AFP Bolivia President Luis Arce vowed in a lively parliamentary session Friday to work tirelessly to punish those accused by the government of an alleged coup...
AFP Millions more Mexicans have fallen into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people living in one of the country’s top tourist destinations hit particularly...
AFP Venezuela will slash six zeroes off its inflation-battered currency the bolivar to make it easier to use, the central bank said on Thursday. The change...
At least 10 people were killed in a Texas road accident involving a truck that authorities suspect was transporting some 30 undocumented migrants, US media said...
AFP A Bolivian court on Tuesday added six months to the pre-trial detention of former acting president Jeanine Anez, her Twitter account said, denouncing a violation...
AFP Even though Barack Obama plans to celebrate his 60th birthday adhering to all the current health guidelines, the former president has come under fire —...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that his predecessors could still face prosecution despite low turnout in a referendum on whether to investigate...
AFP Zambian President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to quell electoral violence ahead of August 12 elections, the head of state said...
AFP Mexicans began voting Sunday in a national referendum promoted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on whether to investigate and prosecute his predecessors for alleged...
AFP Four of the world’s most prominent health, trade and financial organisations on Saturday implored Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to prioritise doses for poorer countries to combat...
AFP At least 249 rhinos were killed the first six months of this year in South Africa, the environment minister said Saturday, partly pushed by the...
AFP Brazil’s unemployment rate pulled marginally back from record levels to 14.6 percent in the rolling March to May quarter, according to official figures released on...
AFP A film warehouse in Sao Paulo was partially destroyed by a fire Thursday just months after employees of the Cinemateca Brasileira had warned of such...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Thursday that he would release prisoners who have been tortured, saying such “medieval practices” must end. “We don’t...
AFP Leftist Pedro Castillo was sworn in as Peru’s fifth president in three years Wednesday on the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence, promising an end...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused his Russian counterpart of seeking to disrupt the 2022 congressional elections by spreading “misinformation.” “Look at what Russia...
AFP Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has plummeted recently, on Tuesday named a senator from the largest bloc in congress as his new chief of...
AFP Chilean pedophile priest Fernando Karadima, whose case helped expose a culture of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church, died aged 90 at a retirement...
AFP Greece will open Covid-19 vaccinations to youngsters aged 12-15 in August, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias told local television on Monday. Vaccination for this group has...
AFP A lagoon in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region has turned bright pink in a striking, but frightful phenomenon experts and activists blame on pollution by a...
AFP Israel’s government Sunday unanimously approved a plan to drastically reduce carbon emissions by 2050, a move hailed as “a historic moment” as Israel ramps up...
AFP The United States on Sunday announced its support for Guatemala’s top anti-corruption investigator, who was dismissed from his post and has fled the country, deploring...
AFP Ecuador on Friday raised to 27 the number of inmates killed in prison riots in two jails this week that forced the government to declare...
AFP Colombia gave the green light Friday to export dried cannabis flowers for use in medical products in addition to allowing manufacturers to produce goods such...
AFP The latest death toll from floods that hit western Germany this month stands at 180, with about 150 still missing, authorities said on Friday. With...
AFP Nine people, including public hospital staff, have been arrested in Peru accused of “selling” intensive care beds to desperate coronavirus patients for thousands of dollars...
AFP Argentina has complained to Russia about delays in delivering second doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a letter warning of breach of contract...
AFP Riots at two prisons in Ecuador on Wednesday left at least 18 dead and more than 50 injured, including police officers, authorities said, updating an...
AFP The US-Mexican border will remain closed to non-essential traffic until August 21 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the two countries said Wednesday, despite Mexico’s efforts...
AFP Peru’s left-wing President-elect Pedro Castillo revealed on Tuesday he would be looking to form a pluralistic government in his first remarks to reporters since his...
AFP Huan Huan, a giant panda on loan to France by Beijing since 2012, is pregnant again and could soon grace the country with her second...
AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday defended Germany’s warning systems against widespread criticism after catastrophic floods claimed the lives of at least 165 people. On a...
AFP/Editor President Nicolas Maduro’s government repatriated more than 700 Venezuelans who fled to nearby Trinidad and Tobago amid their homeland’s crippling economic crisis, the Foreign Ministry...
AFP The widow of Haiti’s slain president Jovenel Moise returned home Saturday after being treated in Florida for wounds she suffered in the attack, an official...
AFP South African authorities said Saturday they were investigating possible pollution suspected to be linked to a spill at a chemical plant attacked during last week’s...
AFP Peruvian police announced Friday the arrest of the suspected killer of an Italian missionary in the country’s north, a crime Pope Francis described as an...
AFP First there were fake vaccines. Now bogus coronavirus immunization certificates are being offered for sale in the Mexican capital, aimed at people traveling to countries...
AFP Rwanda will put the capital Kigali and eight other districts across the country under lockdown from Saturday to rein in surging coronavirus cases and deaths,...
AFP Russia on Friday said that the United States had failed in its mission in Afghanistan and blamed the withdrawal of foreign forces for the war-torn...
AFP Coronavirus-linked deaths in Africa surged by 43 percent in the space of a week, driven by a lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen, the World...
AFP European Union election experts met on Wednesday with Venezuela’s defense minister and Supreme Court president, at a time when the opposition is demanding the release...
AFP Argentina made progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund on restructuring the country’s crippling debt, the economy ministry said on Tuesday. Economy Minister Martin...
AFP Peru’s electoral tribunal announced on Tuesday that it will proclaim on July 20 a winner from last month’s presidential election. “We hope that by Tuesday...
AFP A memorial honoring the victims of an apartment building collapse nearly three weeks ago in the Florida beachfront community of Surfside may be built on...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that Mexico will host talks between his government and the opposition, but insisted he will only take part if...
AFP Assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s security chief made several visits in recent months to Colombia, where a number of mercenaries implicated in the brazen attack...
AFP US law enforcement and national security officials met with Haiti’s leaders and police to offer assistance in the wake of president Jovenel Moise’s assassination, the...
AFP At least 26 people died in nearly two days of clashes between Venezuelan security forces and gangs that control poor neighborhoods of Caracas, the government...
AFP Pope Francis has had “satisfactory blood tests” as he recuperates from colon surgery and is gradually starting to work again, according to the daily bulletin...
AFP More than six months after the deadly US Capitol insurrection, authorities on Friday began the process of dismantling fencing and barricades surrounding the iconic Washington...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s disapproval rating passed 50 percent for the first time, according to a poll published by the Datafolha Institute, marking a new...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used foul language Thursday as he said he would refuse to answer corruption charges that a Senate committee is investigating involving...
AFP An Italian citizen was lynched on Thursday by a group of villagers in southern Honduras after he was accused of killing one of his neighbors,...
AFP The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hit out on Wednesday at Colombia’s “disproportionate” and “lethal” response to anti-government protests that broke out just over two...
AFP A former director of Brazil’s health ministry was arrested Wednesday while testifying before a Senate commission investigating how the government of President Jair Bolsonaro has...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was “shocked” by the assassination of Haiti’s president and that “a lot” more information is needed. “We are...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was “shocked” by the assassination of Haiti’s president and that “a lot” more information is needed. “We are shocked...
AFP An Ecuadorian businessman has been jailed over a scam to sell body bags to a hospital for more than 10 times their cost price amid...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido in a letter Monday even in the midst of efforts to resume negotiations...
AFP Mexican authorities on Monday arrested a former top police official accused of torturing suspects in a case involving a French woman whose imprisonment on kidnapping...
AFP/Editor A woman from Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people was chosen Sunday to lead the drafting of the country’s new constitution, in a bid to spread power...
AFP Israel attacked Gaza military targets late Saturday, the army and Palestinian sources said, after incendiary balloons from the Palestinian territory caused fires in Israel in...
AFP Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets Saturday to protest against President Jair Bolsonaro, who faces an investigation over an allegedly corrupt Covid vaccine deal. ...
AFP Cyprus on Saturday requested emergency assistance of planes from Israel and the EU to fight a wildfire fanned by strong winds and high temperatures that...
AFP Venezuelan rights group Fundaredes said Friday authorities had arrested its director and two other activists who have lifted the lid on fighting near the border...
AFP An incendiary balloon launched from Gaza Friday caused a brush fire in southern Israel, firefighters said, a day after similar attacks led to Israeli air...
AFP Opposition lawmakers in Brazil launched a fresh bid Wednesday to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro as more allegations broke of corruption in acquiring coronavirus vaccines to...
AFP Two doses of Covid vaccine appear to provide protection against the rapidly spreading Delta variant, the European Medicines Agency said Thursday. The upbeat assessment came...
AFP Unemployment in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, remained at a record level in the three months from February, with 14.8 million of its 212 million...
AFP Colombia’s military seized six tons of cocaine from a jungle laboratory run by ELN guerillas in the southwest of the country, Defense Minister Diego Molano...
AFP The Lebanese army will start offering tourists helicopter joyrides this week in a bid to boost the coffers of one of the crisis-hit country’s key...
AFP Anti-government protesters and police traded blows on Monday in demonstrations across Colombia that marked two months of unrest in which more than 60 people have...
AFP/Editor The 193 member states of the United Nations have thus far failed to agree on a peacekeeping budget for the year beginning July 1, which...
AFP Four policemen were among nine people killed in three separate attacks blamed on Colombian armed groups that continue to sow mayhem in the country in...
AFP Challenges to balloting in Peru’s disputed June 6 presidential election can resume as a new judge was sworn in Saturday to the panel overseeing vote...
AFP Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a journalist, former opposition lawmaker and son of ex-president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, has been arrested on charges of undermining Nicaragua’s sovereignty,...
AFP Joe Biden marked Pride Month with joyful optimism and somber reflection Friday as the US president named an LGBTQ rights envoy and created a national...
AFP Colombian President Ivan Duque said Friday the helicopter he was flying in near the border with Venezuela was hit by gunfire. “It is a cowardly...
AFP A Spaniard and two Ethiopian employees of medical charity MSF have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, the organisation said in a...
AFP A magistrate on Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday annulled two more cases against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that had been brought by...
AFP Almost three weeks after a cliffhanger presidential election in Peru, the announcement of final results appeared even further off Thursday after a judge on the...
AFP Colombia is home to the world’s largest variety of butterflies, approximately 20 percent of all known species, according to a study published Tuesday by the...
AFP Indigenous protesters armed with bows and arrows clashed Tuesday with police outside Brazil’s Congress, leaving the area enveloped in tear gas and leading lawmakers to...
AFP Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned Tuesday of a “new outbreak” of coronavirus in Israel after a rise in infections he said was likely due to...
AFP Chile will inaugurate the convention tasked with writing its new constitution on July 4, President Sebastian Pinera announced Sunday, as the South American country moves...
AFP Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said talks Monday with UN diplomats supporting a fragile month-old ceasefire had gone badly, accusing Israel of a lack of will...
AFP Brazil on Saturday crossed the grim threshold of 500,000 coronavirus deaths, trailing only the United States in lives lost to Covid-19. “500,000 lives lost due...
AFP President Joe Biden went to church Saturday in his hometown a day after US Roman Catholic bishops issued a challenge to him over his support...
AFP Peru’s rightwing presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori, narrowly trailing in an unconfirmed count of votes cast on June 6, repeated fraud allegations Thursday as a review...
AFP Three boats carrying a total of 80 migrants hoping to reach Britain were rescued Friday after their makeshift vessels ran into trouble, France’s regional maritime...
AFP A month after more than 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, around 3,000 of them are still inside the Spanish enclave, the...
AFP The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge by Republican-led states to former president Barack Obama’s health care program. In a 7-2 decision, the...
AFP/Editor Peru’s leftist presidential hopeful Pedro Castillo, narrowly leading in a vote count already nine days under way, on Tuesday rejected calls from the rightwing camp...
AFP/Editor Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on Tuesday revealed it had hit a setback in trials of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination...
AFP/Editor Bolivia’s former acting president Jeanine Anez, arrested after coup allegations levelled by her predecessor and rival Evo Morales, denounced her status as a “political prisoner”...
AFP/Salle de presse Two soldiers will face charges of homicide and negligence over a massive explosion at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea that killed more...
AFP/Editor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was fined $100 Saturday for violating Covid-19 containment measures in Sao Paulo state by failing to wear a face mask and...
AFP Sri Lanka announced an investigation Thursday into a possible oil slick reported off its west coast where a container ship is submerged after burning for...
AFP A member of a splinter group from Colombia’s FARC ex-guerrilla organization was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison for the kidnap and murder of...
AFP/Editor Brazil’s health regulator approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine Friday for use in children aged 12 and up, though they will likely have to wait months...
AFP/Editor At least 12 people, including eight children, were killed when heavy monsoon rains caused a residential building to collapse in a Mumbai slum, Indian authorities...
AFP/Editor Colombia in 2020 managed to reduce by seven percent its land surface under coca cultivation, but remained the world’s largest producer of cocaine, a UN...
AFP/Editor Far-left trade unionist Pedro Castillo has cast himself as the winner of Peru’s presidential election, thanking foreign nations for “victory” messages even as election officials...
AFP/Editor Peru’s right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on Monday raised allegations of “irregularities” and “signs of fraud” in Sunday’s run-off election as her rival, the far-left...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support Monday for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan...
AFP/Editor Right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori held a narrow lead over radical leftist Pedro Castillo following a partial vote count in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday. With...
AFP/Editor A man armed with a knife killed five people and wounded 15 others in a city in eastern China, state media reported. The attack occurred...
AFP/Editor The international airport in DR Congo’s Goma reopened Saturday, two weeks after a devastating volcanic eruption near the eastern city, with the arrival of a...
AFP/Editor Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday she hoped for “concrete measures” at the global summit on climate change due to take place in the Scottish...
AFP/Editor Mexico’s foreign minister on Friday hit out at the head of the Organization of American States, which will monitor elections this weekend, calling his performance...
AFP/Editor Honduras will open an embassy in Jerusalem this month, the country’s president said Thursday, in a bid to build closer ties with Israel after decades...
AFP/Editor Chile on Thursday became the latest country to limit use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, linked to rare blood clots, when a 31-year-old man developed...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden will announce within days the details of a plan to export 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses to other countries “without any political...
AFP/Editor The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday warned of “staggering health needs” in the occupied Palestinian Territories after last month’s conflict between Israel and Islamist group...
AFP/Editor Peru on Monday more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll, becoming the country with the highest Covid-19 mortality per capita anywhere in the world....
AFP/Editor The World Health Organization on Tuesday approved the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use — the second Chinese jab to receive the WHO’s green light....
AFP/Editor Brazil’s economy, the largest in Latin America, returned to its pre-pandemic level with stronger-than-expected growth of 1.2 percent in the first quarter, the government said...
AFP/editor Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that the apparent funding by the United States of an anti-corruption group critical of his government amounted to...
AFP/Editor Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised the Yanomami indigenous people in remarks released Sunday that there will be no mining on their land unless they want...
AFP/Editor New York City is to build a homeless shelter in an expensive Manhattan area known as “Billionaire’s Row” following a lengthy legal battle. Mayor Bill...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden pledged Sunday to tell Russian leader Vladimir Putin at their June summit that Washington will not let Moscow “abuse” human rights. The...
AFP/Editor More than a thousand refugees left a camp in Rwanda to return to the Democratic of Congo on Saturday, officials said, after escaping over the...
AFP/Editor Colombian President Ivan Duque announced Friday he was deploying military troops to Cali, at the epicenter of bloody anti-government protests across the country that have...
AFP/Editor The CoronaVac vaccine reduces coronavirus mortality by 97 percent, according to early results of the immunization campaign in Uruguay, which relies heavily on the Chinese...
AFP/Editor German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Friday he will stand for a second five-year term in the largely ceremonial role, seen as providing a kind of...
AFP/Editor Indigenous Brazilians of the Mundurucu ethnic group on Wednesday said their leaders were attacked following a police operation aimed at kicking out miners squatting on...
AFP/Editor Qatar announced Wednesday it would provide $500 million for Gaza’s reconstruction, after the Palestinian enclave was battered by Israeli air strikes in 11 days of...
AFP/Editor The Jesuit congregation of Chile has acknowledged that its priests sexually abused 64 people, including 34 children, between 2005 and 2020, according to a report...
AFP/Editor Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where...
AFP/Editor Six presidents of Latin American and Caribbean countries called Monday on the international community for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, asking those countries with the...
AFP/Editor More than 200 passengers were injured in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Monday when two metro trains collided in a tunnel, police said. ...
AFP/Editor Animal rights protesters on Saturday blockaded four British distribution centres for fast-food chain McDonald’s, demanding they become fully plant-based by 2025. The Animal Rebellion group...
AFP/Editor Brazilian ex-presidents and longtime rivals Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Fernando Henrique Cardoso said Friday they had met to discuss their shared opposition to...
AFP/Editor Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday ruled out asking the central bank chief to stay on for another term, saying he would replace...
AFP/Editor Nearly 200 human rights and labor activists were killed in Colombia in 2020, the worst toll in 11 years, an NGO said as the country...
AFP/Editor New filings for unemployment aid declined for the third straight week in the United States, government data said Thursday, sending the closely watched employment metric...
AFP/Editor Colombia’s government was on Wednesday verifying intelligence that a wanted dissident leader of the FARC ex-guerilla group had been killed in Venezuela. Defense Minister Diego...
AFP/Editor A court in Guinean capital Conakry fined a prominent journalist the equivalent of 420 euros ($515) Wednesday for “insulting” President Alpha Conde, as he was...
AFP/Editor More than 1.5 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been injected into people’s arms around the world, six months after the vaccination drive started, according...
AFP/Editor US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday insisted the US was “not standing in the way of diplomacy” in the UN by not backing...
AFP/Editor The EU’s drug agency on Monday approved the storage of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in fridges for up to a month, in a move that...
AFP/Editor US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Israel and Palestinians to “protect civilians, especially children”, reiterating that Israel “as a democracy has an...
AFP/Editor The mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer of the digestive system, the hospital where he...
AFP/Editor Israel on Sunday told the UN Security Council that the recent deadly violence was premeditated by Hamas, urging condemnation of the militants during a session...
AFP/Editor Two tornadoes that struck central and eastern China killed at least 12 people and injured more than 400, authorities said Saturday. Violent winds of more...
AFP/Editor Egypt opened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza Saturday to allow 10 ambulances to transport Palestinians seriously wounded in Israeli air strikes to Egyptian hospitals,...
AFP/Editor Russia on Friday formally designated the United States and the Czech Republic as “unfriendly states” amid the biggest crisis in ties between Moscow and Washington...
