AFP The United States government has reached agreements with 20 major telecom companies to cut costs or raise internet broadband speeds for tens of millions of...
AFP The Colombian government on Sunday reinforced a nearly 50,000-strong military deployment against a drug cartel that has burned cars and threatened people as reprisal for...
AFP Ukrainian forces holed up in the sprawling Azovstal steelworks in the Russian-controlled city of Mariupol said Sunday they would not surrender and vowed to fight...
AFP Belgium has refused to extradite Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa, his lawyers announced Friday, after Brussels recently granted him asylum. The former socialist leader was...
AFP A Colombian drug cartel has set fire to dozens of vehicles, retaliating over the extradition of the group’s leader to the United States on trafficking...
AFP An anti-Kremlin Russian journalist and municipal deputy said Friday he faced a fine of up to 100,000 rubles for discrediting the army amid Moscow’s military...
AFP Ukraine’s Azov battalion, leading Kyiv’s defence of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, accused Russian forces Friday of firing during a civilian evacuation of the huge...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a bill Thursday that would grant $600 million in aid to artists and cultural programs reeling from the coronavirus pandemic,...
AFP Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras on Thursday reported a first-quarter net profit of 44.6 billion reais ($8.6 billion), amid sharp criticism from President Jair Bolsonaro...
AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit, the German president’s office said on Thursday, three weeks...
AFP Brazilian presidential front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin bear equal responsibility for the war...
AFP Chinese authorities raised the number of people confirmed dead in a building collapse to 26 on Thursday, nearly a week after the block containing apartments,...
AFP A Russian army helicopter violated Finland’s airspace on Wednesday, the Finnish defence ministry said, as the country mulls an increasingly likely NATO membership bid. “The...
AFP Argentine paleontologists have announced the discovery of an apex-predator dinosaur that measured three stories from nose to tail and eviscerated its prey with sharp, curved...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has responded to less than three percent of deforestation alerts, a sign that “impunity reigns” in the destruction of Brazil’s forests,...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Tuesday the West must stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and accused Kyiv of not taking talks...
AFP The Ukrainian military said Tuesday that Russian forces had launched an offensive on the besieged Azovstal steel plant where Kyiv’s forces are holed up in...
AFP The UN said Tuesday that 101 civilians had been “successfully evacuated” from the tunnels of the Azovstal plant in Ukraine’s battered city of Mariupol, in...
AFP President Joe Biden said Tuesday that US voters will have to defend the “fundamental” right to an abortion if the Supreme Court scraps constitutional guarantees...
AFP Mexico’s Pato O’Ward seized the lead with 29 laps remaining and held off defending champion Alex Palou of Spain down the stretch to win Sunday’s...
AFP One person was pulled out alive Monday from the rubble of a building that collapsed three days ago in central China, state-run television said, with...
AFP The US hopes its diplomats will be able to return to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, where Washington closed its embassy days before the Russian invasion, “by...
AFP Donald Trump vented fury at protesters outside the White House in 2020, saying “Can’t you just shoot them?” according to then defense secretary Mark Esper...
AFP Three people were wounded by gunfire and two arrested in clashes at May Day demonstrations in Chile, police said. The shooting occurred during a Sunday...
AFP An initial group of around 100 civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President...
AFP President Pedro Castillo rushed back to Peru by car from a visit to Ecuador to avoid being impeached, after bad weather grounded his plane. Peru...
AFP Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso announced Friday he had decreed a state of emergency for two months in three provinces with the highest registered levels of...
AFP Ralf Rangnick says Manchester United must work hard to lure “future top stars” to Old Trafford despite their near-certain absence from the Champions League next...
AFP Peru’s government has announced a plan to buy the nation’s entire supply of illegal coca leaf — the primary ingredient in cocaine — for at...
AFP Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Thursday demanded the resignation of his cabinet almost a year into a term that has been marked by a crisis...
AFP Protesters clashed with police in several Colombian cities Thursday as hundreds of demonstrators marked the one-year anniversary of a mass uprising against outgoing conservative president...
AFP UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi expressed “concern” Thursday about not having been able to access Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine since Russia seized...
AFP A former US ambassador has pleaded guilty to illegal lobbying for Qatar and accepting a lavish trip while serving as envoy to Pakistan, court documents...
AFP Brazilian mining giant Vale reported a first-quarter net profit of $4.45 billion on Wednesday, down 27.4 percent from the same period last year. The group’s...
AFP Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will be lower than expected at 1.8 percent this year due to the war in Ukraine, a...
AFP President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that if any other country intervenes in Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Russia will launch a quick-fire military response. Speaking...
AFP After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the jury for Rio de Janeiro’s colorful, cutthroat carnival competition on Tuesday named the winner of the 2022...
AFP Ten retired members of Colombia’s military began admitting to victims’ families on Tuesday their roles in the assassination of 120 civilians that were later presented...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Tuesday wielded his clemency powers for the first time, announcing pardons for three people, including the first Black man to serve...
AFP A new prison riot that broke out in Quito left 15 inmates injured while a vehicle exploded outside another penitentiary in the port of Guayaquil,...
AFP One in four children in Latin America and the Caribbean does not have vaccine protection against three potentially deadly diseases, a UN report said Monday,...
AFP A scuba diving boat sank Saturday off one of Ecuador’s ecologically sensitive Galapagos Islands but damage was minor and no one was hurt, officials said....
AFP Ecuador’s judiciary has submitted an extradition request to Belgium for former president Rafael Correa, who has been sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison...
AFP Brazil’s indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated recently under...
AFP Talks between Moscow and Kyiv to put an end to Russia’s near two-month military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine have stalled, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...
AFP Argentina on Thursday launched the construction tender phase for a gas pipeline megaproject that will eventually extend more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) from the...
AFP Pope Francis has announced that a meeting set for June with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been cancelled...
AFP US President Joe Biden announced Thursday a new package of $800 million in military aid for Ukraine, saying it would help Kyiv’s forces in the...
AFP Spain has shipped 200 tonnes of military equipment, including heavy transport vehicles and ammunition, to Ukraine, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday during a visit...
AFP At least six soldiers died in an explosives attack perpetrated by suspected drug traffickers in northeastern Colombia, the army said on Wednesday. Another five soldiers...
AFP Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday called on French voters to support incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential vote...
AFP Brazil’s indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated recently under...
AFP Colombian authorities are investigating the brutal murder of a homeless woman who had her baby stolen from her slashed-open womb, allegedly by a paid hitman....
AFP Moscow said Tuesday that Russian forces had opened a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian troops who agreed to lay down their arms to leave the embattled...
AFP Rising food prices that have been pushed even higher by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could force upwards of 10 million people into poverty, US Treasury...
AFP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rocked markets and prompted countries to impose retaliatory measures that could hurt the global economy, but no financial crisis has...
AFP Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who leads in opinion polls ahead of Colombian elections next month, signed an oath Tuesday not to expropriate property if he becomes...
AFP Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who has been serving a prison term for crimes against humanity committed during his presidency, was hospitalized Sunday for the...
AFP A four-headed mannequin carrying the faces of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was burnt in Caracas on Sunday as part...
AFP Brazil announced Sunday it will “in the coming days” lift public health emergency measures in place for over two years, citing a drop in the...
AFP Brazil’s leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, leading opinion polls for a victorious return to the top job in October elections, named centrist politician...
AFP Taiwan tech firm Acer said it was halting all business in Russia after Taipei expanded sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Self-ruled Taiwan has been...
AFP Authorities in DR Congo said six people died in a blast in the country’s troubled east caused by a suspected bomb. The previous toll from...
AFP The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq said it shot down an armed drone that targeted an air base, reporting no casualties...
AFP UK climate activist group Extinction Rebellion shut down London’s iconic Tower Bridge after two of its protesters abseiled over its sides. The activists were hanging...
AFP Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky asked the West to impose “Molotov cocktail” sanctions on Moscow, including a ban on Russian gas, and appealed for more weapons...
AFP Russia said Friday that it will add the UK think tank Chatham House to a blacklist of “undesirable” international organisations, calling it a threat to...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday paid his respects at the memorial service of ultra-nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose death at age 75 was announced...
AFP At least 50 people, including five children, were killed in strikes on a train station in the east Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the local governor...
AFP Ukrainian investigators began to exhume a mass grave in Bucha, opening the early stages of what police say will be a war crimes case targeting...
AFP Britain is sending Ukraine more Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles after an “unconscionable” attack on a train station, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Friday accused Russia of carrying out a “horrific atrocity,” after a rocket attack on a train station packed with conflict...
AFP At least 12 troops and four army auxiliaries were killed Friday in an attack by suspected jihadists on a military detachment in Burkina Faso, the...
AFP The United Nations on Friday urged Yemen’s warring parties to exercise “restraint” after they traded accusations of violations of a UN-brokered ceasefire. “I am following...
AFP Russia faces “decay” because of ever more stringent sanctions from the West while Ukraine has a “European future”, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen...
AFP Queen Elizabeth II, 95, who has been suffering from mobility problems, will not attend next week’s Maundy Day service which is normally a fixture in...
AFP The United States on Friday expressed alarm over a report that found security forces in northern Ethiopia committed abuses against Tigrayans that amounted to war...
AFP Peru restarted in-school classes for the first time in two years after they were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some 4.2 million children in...
AFP Ketanji Brown Jackson celebrated her rise “from segregation to the Supreme Court” at a White House event Friday marking her confirmation as the first Black...
AFP Peru on Thursday declared a one-month state of emergency on all its highways in a bid to clear road blocks set up by truckers protesting...
AFP Torrential rains and flooding have killed at least 12 people at a mining camp in mountainous northwest Colombia, with another two reported missing and more...
AFP Former Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, whose future became a major issue after he was toppled in a coup in January, has been...
AFP Building an East Mediterranean gas pipeline to Europe as an alternative to Russian energy would be too expensive and take too long to build, a...
AFP Russia on Thursday accused Ukrainian negotiators of changing demands since last month’s talks in Istanbul, claiming that Kyiv was not interested in ending fighting. Russian...
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...
