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...
AFP The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the planet can end the Covid-19 emergency this year, although the virus last week...
AFP The governor of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state announced plans Saturday for massive investments aimed at revitalizing two long crime-infested slum districts. The announcement came...
AFP A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, including protected penguins, after 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled off Peru’s coast due to...
AFP President Joe Biden marked the 49th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing abortion rights in the United States by again urging that those...
AFP Peru on Saturday declared an “environmental emergency” along a stretch of coast hit by an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption...
AFP At Miramar Beach in Peru’s popular resort of Ancon, there are no bathers despite the summer heat. Instead, it teems with workers in coveralls cleaning...
AFP The Taliban’s religious police have threatened to shoot women NGO workers in a northwestern province of Afghanistan if they do not wear the all-covering burqa,...
AFP Irina Karamanos, an avowed feminist and partner of Chile’s leftist president-elect Gabriel Boric, has drawn fire from women’s groups for her decision to accept the...
AFP A car bomb detonated in Colombia overnight outside government offices and the seat of a human rights body, killing one person and wounded 20 near...
AFP Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he was cutting short an official visit to Suriname and Guyana and returning home after his mother died. “With...
AFP A Colombian court has ruled that the government cannot conduct anti-drug fumigation without the consent of rural communities, in a blow to plans to resume...
AFP A Chilean appeals court on Friday suspended a million-dollar state lithium tender issued two days earlier that had generated controversy for coming just two months...
AFP Peru demanded compensation Wednesday from Spanish energy giant Repsol over an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption near Tonga in the...
AFP Ingrid Betancourt — who was abducted 20 years ago while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency, and held captive by FARC rebels in the jungle for more...
AFP Irina Karamanos, the partner of Chile’s president elect Gabriel Boric, announced on Tuesday she would take on the official role of first lady but vowed...
AFP Brazil registered a new record number of daily Covid-19 cases of more than 137,000, according to figures supplied by the health ministry on Tuesday. The...
AFP Up to 2,000 trucks are backed up at Argentina’s main border crossing with Chile due to tougher Covid-19 testing requirements, Argentine haulers said on Tuesday,...
AFP The Vatican’s top diplomat and adviser to Pope Francis, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has tested positive for Covid, a spokesman for the Holy See said Tuesday. ...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for diplomacy to end the Ukraine crisis in a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who earlier...
AFP Colombia saw 145 community leaders and rights defenders killed in 2021, a year marked by anti-government protests that were brutally put down, the country’s human...
AFP Peruvian authorities sealed off three beaches Monday after they were hit by an oil spill blamed on freak waves caused by the volcanic eruption in...
AFP A cold case investigation led by an ex-FBI agent has identified a Jewish notary as the prime suspect in the mystery of who betrayed teenage...
AFP Hundreds of men, women and children gathered early Saturday morning in the parking lot of San Pedro Sula’s main transit hub, on the edge of...
AFP Two women drowned on a beach in northern Peru due to “anomalous waves” registered after the volcanic eruption in Tonga, more than 10,000 kilometers away,...
AFP Ecuador on Sunday declared a red alert in most of the country following a ten-fold increase in Covid-19 cases. The red alert applies to 193...
AFP Latin America and the Caribbean registered a record of more than 300,000 new daily Covid-19 cases from January 7-13, according to an AFP count based...
AFP Hundreds of men, women and children gathered early Saturday morning in the parking lot of San Pedro Sula’s main transit hub, on the edge of...
AFP Brazil began vaccinating children aged five to 11 against Covid-19 on Friday after the move was approved, despite objections from President Jair Bolsonaro. Davi Seremramiwe...
AFP Ecuador created a massive new marine reserve Friday north of its Galapagos islands, forming a Pacific corridor up to Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park...
AFP The Taliban on Friday urged Washington to heed a call by the United Nations chief to unlock Afghan funds frozen in the United States, as...
AFP The world faces more years of high energy prices and emissions unless the electricity sector changes faster after demand hit a record last year, the...
AFP The NATO alliance will deepen its cyber warfare cooperation with its partner Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday, after a massive cyberattack knocked out...
AFP Uruguay captain Diego Godin has signed for Atletico Mineiro after reaching agreement with Cagliari to terminate his contract, the Brazilian champions said on Wednesday. The...
AFP Argentine inflation continued to rise in 2021, ending the year at more than 50 percent, the state statistics institute said on Thursday, It was grim...
AFP A town in Western Australia on Thursday equalled the country’s hottest day on record, reporting a temperature of 50.7C (123.26F), the Bureau of Meteorology said....
AFP A year ago Argentina joined the limited ranks of Latin American countries to have legalized abortion, but while that gave hope to millions of women,...
AFP Chile shunned two of the world’s biggest lithium producers when awarding extraction contracts worth a total of $121 million to a local firm and a...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday downplayed the Omicron coronavirus variant amid a surge in hard-hit Brazil, ruling out new containment measures as he defended the...
AFP South African police Wednesday uprooted cannabis plants grown by indigenous activists who have camped outside President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office for more than three years, AFP...
AFP The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on...
AFP The diocese of Rome expressed outrage Tuesday after a Nazi flag was draped over the coffin of a neo-fascist activist during her funeral at a...
AFP The number of irregular migrants who crossed into the European Union last year was “just short of 200,000” — the highest number since 2017, the...
AFP Pope Francis on Monday urged the international community to step up Covid vaccination and said “reality therapy” was needed to battle “baseless information” putting people off...
AFP Aid agencies have suspended their work in an area of Ethiopia’s Tigray region after a deadly air strike on a camp for people displaced by...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a Moscow-led military detachment deployed to counter unrest in Kazakhstan would remain in the Central Asian country for...
AFP Israel will maintain “unrestricted freedom” to act against Iran regardless of any nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said...
AFP Nine students were killed by a blast at a mobile popcorn stall near a school in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said. There were...
AFP Victor Escobar decided to die and to do so publicly, becoming one of the first Latin Americans to end their life without suffering from a...
AFP At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities said...
AFP President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday said any attempts to undermine South Africa’s democracy would fail, a week after a fire devastated the National Assembly building...
AFP A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Peru’s capital and surrounding areas Friday, leaving at least nine people injured and some homes damaged, authorities said. The quake was...
AFP Sao Paulo, Latin America’s most populous city, on Thursday cancelled its annual street carnival for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus...
AFP Covid-19 killed at least one parent or primary caregiver for nearly 100,000 children in Peru, the country with the world’s highest coronavirus death rate, its...
AFP Chile will start administering a fourth Covid vaccine dose to people with weakened immune systems from Monday, President Sebastian Pinera said, as the country recorded...
AFP A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rattled Peru’s capital and surrounding areas Friday, with no immediate reports of damage or injuries, authorities said. The temblor was registered...
AFP China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Thursday that Beijing would appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa, signalling his country’s intention to play...
AFP President Joe Biden tore into Donald Trump Thursday on the first anniversary of the Capitol insurrection, calling him a selfish liar who could not accept...
AFP Brazilian health authorities authorized Covid-19 vaccines for children age five to 11 on Wednesday, as South America’s most populous country faces a rapid increase in...
AFP Panama has extradited to the United States a retired Colombian soldier wanted over the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise last July, an official said...
AFP Peruvian prosecutors said on Tuesday that they will investigate President Pedro Castillo when his term ends for the alleged crimes of influence peddling, collusion and...
AFP Thousands marched Tuesday along the beaches of Argentina’s Mar del Plata to protest an oil exploration project off the Atlantic coast. Carrying placards reading, “Oil...
AFP Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday he had been cleared to leave the hospital after being treated for an intestinal blockage. “Authorized to leave now....
AFP About 24,000 people have been evacuated and two children killed in floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said Tuesday, with environmental campaigners blaming deforestation for...
AFP Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first....
AFP An online auction of some 90 items owned by the late football icon Diego Maradona has closed with a house and BMW unsold, but most...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not need surgery, his doctors said Tuesday, a day after the far-right leader was rushed to the hospital with a...
AFP Between the pandemic and the rainy weather, it was a muted New Year’s celebration on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach, but there was a...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was rushed to hospital early Monday morning for treatment of a probable intestinal obstruction, local media reported. Bolsonaro, 66, who has...
AFP Heavy snow caused traffic jams, flight cancellations and disruption to train services in central Japan on Monday, with record drifts recorded in some areas. More...
AFP Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case that enshrined abortion as a legal right in the United States, died Sunday aged...
AFP French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce new Covid measures on Monday as the country braces for a new surge in cases due to...
AFP Iran has agreed to accept Ceylon tea in payment for a Sri Lankan oil debt valued at $251 million, Iranian media reported Thursday. “In recent...
A military tribunal in Cameroon has jailed dozens of opposition supporters for terms of up to seven years for “rebellion”, their party’s deputy secretary general said....
AFP Iraq’s supreme court on Monday rejected a motion filed by the Hashed al-Shaabi ex-paramilitary alliance contesting its defeat in the October 10 parliamentary election. “The...
AFP A vaccination drive against cholera kicked off last week targeting two million people in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World...
AFP Bodycam footage of the “chaotic” police shooting of a teenager in a California department store was released Monday, as critics claimed officers were all-too-ready to...
AFP Chile will offer its citizens a fourth coronavirus vaccine dose from February, starting with high-risk categories, President Sebastian Pinera has announced. “The main concern and...
AFP Ecuador on Thursday became the first country to make coronavirus vaccines obligatory for children as young as five, following the arrival of the Omicron variant...
AFP Some 250 firefighters and national park employees battled blazes Friday in Argentina’s Patagonia region which have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest, authorities said. Fires...
AFP The death toll from heavy rain and flooding that has plagued the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia since November rose to 20 on Monday, amid...
AFP The Spanish government’s First Vice President Nadia Calvino was elected chair of the group of finance ministers and central bankers that advises the IMF’s board,...
AFP South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma can appeal a court ruling last week that he should not enjoy medical parole and should return to jail....
AFP Former US president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the release of documents to a congressional committee investigating the January 6...
AFP At least four migrants died after their boat was grounded on an islet north of the Greek island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek coastguard...
AFP The United States is preparing for talks with Russia that could start within weeks, a senior official said Thursday, as Western powers accuse Moscow of...
AFP British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his Christmas Eve message on Friday exhorted the UK public to get jabbed as a “wonderful” gift for the...
AFP The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading at an unprecedented rate, the WHO said, urging countries to act swiftly to rein in transmission and protect...
AFP The suspected attacker managed to cross a wire fence to access the runaway at the Camilo Daza International Airport in the city of Cucuta, close...
AFP Though he isn’t even a year into his first term, US President Joe Biden says one factor could help convince him to run again in...
AFP/Redacción Venezuela detectó los siete primeros casos de la variante ómicron del coronavirus, anunció este miércoles el presidente Nicolás Maduro. “Detectaron los primeros siete casos de...
AFP Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country...
AFP The United States on Wednesday authorized Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill for high-risk people aged 12 and up, as a surge of cases driven by the highly infectious...
AFP The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a US-proposed resolution that facilitates humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, which is on the verge of economic collapse,...
AFP Temperatures have soared in Greenland recently, the Danish Meteorological Institute said on Wednesday, in line with warming trends experts have linked to global warming. In...
AFP Spain’s Supreme Court said Wednesday it had annulled a lower court ruling ordering Barcelona defender Gerard Pique to pay the country’s tax office 2.1 million...
AFP Year-on-year unemployment in Argentina fell by 3.5 percentage points in the third quarter of 2021 to 8.2 percent, the Indec national statistics institute said on...
AFP Aerospace giants Airbus and Boeing on Tuesday warned the US aviation industry had “concerns” about the potential interference of 5G networks with vital flight safety...
AFP The United States will give $580 million in additional aid to international organizations to fight Covid-19 in the face of surging Omicron cases, Secretary of...
AFP South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma can appeal a court ruling last week that he should not enjoy medical parole and should return to jail....
AFP South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work after spending a week in isolation following a positive Covid test, his office said Monday. Ramaphosa,...
AFP The eruption of an volcano in Iceland, which drew hundreds of thousands of tourists and was the longest in 50 years, has been declared officially...
AFP Several thousand Argentines on Sunday commemorated the 20th anniversary of the country’s “great crisis,” when the South American nation plunged into social unrest following economic...
AFP US President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday passed a rule making abortion pills accessible by mail permanently, not just for the Covid pandemic, a rare...
AFP Texas has begun building its own “wall” of huge steel bars on the border with Mexico, its Republican governor Greg Abbott said Saturday, accusing President...
AFP Brazil raised nearly $2 billion Friday with the auction of two large oil blocks, drawing bids from major international firms after struggling recently to generate...
AFP The Kremlin on Friday defended new legislation requiring foreigners in Russia to undergo health checks every three months, after the law drew the ire of...
AFP A representative for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority community testified in an Argentine court Thursday as a part of an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by...
AFP Leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has increased his lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro 10 months out from Brazil’s elections and could win in...
AFP The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will close its Brazilian office, a day after receiving harsh criticism from Economy Minister Paulo Guedes over its...
AFP Boca Juniors beat Barcelona on penalties on Tuesday in Riyadh, in a friendly match in honour of Diego Maradona, marked by the return of Brazilian...
AFP Dozens of women protested Thursday in Afghanistan’s capital, demanding the right to education, jobs and political representation from the Taliban government. Although public protests are...
AFP Two girls, including a three-year-old, have died in Guinea after being sexually assaulted, rights groups said, calling for justice after a series of attacks and...
AFP Chile’s central bank on Wednesday improved its projection for economic growth in 2021 to 11.5 – 12 percent due to “greater spending dynamism.” In September,...
AFP Russian tech group VK, which owns the country’s leading social network VKontakte, said Monday that it has appointed the son of one of President Vladimir...
AFP China branded US democracy a “weapon of mass destruction” on Saturday, following the US-organised Summit for Democracy which aimed to shore up like-minded allies in...
AFP The powerful storm system that devastated parts of the United States overnight is likely to be “one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history,”...
