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,”...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Friday he called Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and discussed tensions on the Ukrainian border, where tens of thousands of...
AFP Joe Biden on Friday used his first late-night television talk show appearance as US president to highlight his infrastructure bill — and laugh off his...
AFP Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday signed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, two days after Congress approved a bill opposed by one of the frontrunners...
AFP Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed New Year’s Eve party after all, Mayor Eduardo Paes announced Thursday, five days after canceling the celebration over...
AFP Nicaragua announced Thursday it was breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China, as the administration of Daniel Ortega believes there is only one...
AFP The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation restricting imports from China’s Xinjiang region over its treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority, as tensions continue...
AFP The World Health Organization said Thursday it remained unclear whether additional Covid-19 vaccine doses are needed to protect against the new Omicron variant, and urged...
AFP Peru’s former first lady Susana Higuchi — wife-turned-critic of ex-president Alberto Fujimori and mother of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori — died Wednesday of cancer, her...
AFP Brazil’s central bank on Wednesday hiked its benchmark interest rate by a whopping 150 basis points for the second straight time, seeking to fight surging...
AFP Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was elected by parliament Wednesday as the country’s next president, set to lead in 2022 amid deepening tensions over the...
AFP The death toll from the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Semeru has risen to 39, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers scrambled to retrieve more bodies under...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking publicly for the first time since his high-profile talks with US leader Joe Biden, said Wednesday Moscow reserves the right...
AFP Brazil on Tuesday ruled out requiring a Covid-19 vaccination certificate for foreign travelers arriving in the country, despite a recommendation from the national health regulator....
AFP Chile’s congress on Tuesday approved a long-awaited bill to legalize same-sex marriage, joining just a handful of countries in majority Catholic Latin America with similar...
AFP Latin America will see a 25 percent rise in the value of goods exports for 2021, after a drop of 10 percent in 2020, a...
AFP At least four civilians were killed and four more wounded Tuesday in a motorcycle bombing near a hospital in central Basra city in southern Iraq,...
AFP Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced Tuesday that he is now working in the industrial sewing outfit of his penal colony after being ordered to...
AFP New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday announced a blanket Covid-19 vaccine mandate for the private sector in the United States’ biggest city, starting...
AFP Pope Francis said Monday he was ready to travel to Moscow to visit Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church. “I am ready to...
AFP A dissident former leader of the FARC guerrillas was shot dead in Venezuela by other rebels, Colombian media reported Sunday. Citing Colombian and Venezuelan intelligence...
AFP One of Venezuela’s opposition heavyweights called Sunday for an end to the country’s interim government that was formed in 2019 to try to oust President...
AFP Argentina has registered its first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, in a traveler from South Africa, the health ministry announced. The infected person,...
AFP Chile said Saturday it had found its first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in a traveler who arrived late last month from Ghana....
AFP A total solar eclipse plunged Antarctica from summer into darkness early Saturday in a rare astronomical spectacle witnessed by a handful of scientists and thrill-seekers...
AFP A Peruvian judge ruled Friday that former president Alberto Fujimori cannot for now be prosecuted over alleged forced sterilizations that happened during his administration, because...
AFP Officials from Argentina’s economy ministry and central bank will travel to Washington Saturday for talks with the International Monetary Fund on repayment of a debt...
AFP Chilean paleontologists on Wednesday presented their findings on a dinosaur discovered three years ago in Patagonia which they said had a highly unusual tail that...
AFP Switzerland announced Friday it was dropping 10-day quarantine rules for people flying in from countries where the Omicron Covid-19 variant has been detected. The wealthy...
AFP Canadian lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously voted to ban so-called conversion therapy, after two previous attempts to criminalize actions seeking to change a person’s sexual orientation...
AFP Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday issued the country’s first-ever authorization for planting, cultivating and harvesting cannabis for industrial purposes. It granted the right to a...
AFP Argentina’s ex-president Mauricio Macri was charged Wednesday with ordering the illegal surveillance, as head of state, of relatives of 44 sailors who died when a...
AFP The Brazilian Senate on Wednesday approved a Presbyterian pastor for a seat on the Supreme Court in a win for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who...
AFP The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned a “toxic mix” of low vaccination coverage and low testing rates was creating fertile breeding ground for new...
AFP Honduras’s leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro was headed for election victory Tuesday — making history as the first woman to govern the Central American nation...
AFP The older brother of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on Tuesday renounced the governorship of western Barinas state, a stronghold of the family, after losing...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been without a political party since 2019, on Tuesday joined the right-wing Liberal Party (PL) ahead of 2022 elections....
AFP The World Health Organization called Tuesday for countries to keep calm and take “rational” measures in response to the new, fast-spreading Covid variant Omicron, which has...
AFP The United States on Tuesday announced it has removed the former rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia from its list of terrorist organizations....
AFP A volcano northwest of the Philippine capital Manila erupted Tuesday, authorities said, adding there were no reports of ashfall but warning people to stay away...
AFP Argentina’s justice system will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the Myanmar military against that country’s Rohingya minority under a court ruling upholding the...
AFP The new Covid variant Omicron is highly transmissible and requires “urgent action,” G7 health ministers said Monday, praising South Africa’s “exemplary work” for both detecting...
AFP Brazilian authorities burned more than 60 river-dredging boats in a crackdown on wildcat miners drawn to a major Amazon tributary by rumors of a gold...
AFP President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday assailed EU observers of Venezuelan local elections and denied their assertion that last week’s voting was marred by irregularities. “Those...
AFP Three-quarters of children have faced abuse in sport and boys are more likely to be victims than girls, a study of more than 10,000 individuals...
AFP Thirteen candidates will contest Honduras’s razor-tight presidential election on Sunday to see who will succeed scandal-tainted Juan Orlando Hernandez. Here are short profiles of the...
AFP Brazil’s national health agency recommended Friday the government bar foreign travelers arriving from six southern African countries over a new Covid-19 variant detected in the...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to India next month, in only his second trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic began two years ago, the...
AFP Several regions in China have extended maternity leave by at least 30 days, in the latest attempt to encourage child-rearing as the country faces a...
AFP Pope Francis plans to arrange the transfer of a number of migrants to Rome during his visit to Cyprus next week, Cypriot officials said Friday,...
AFP President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he was against Brazil resuming carnival celebrations in February, a rare nod to Covid-19 social distancing measures from the far-right...
AFP India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world’s...
AFP The EU cleared Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged five to 11 on Thursday, the first jab to be approved in a cohort...
AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday renewed her call for tougher curbs to halt record coronavirus infections in Germany, stressing that “every day counts” as the...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday made another appeal to sceptical Russians to vaccinate themselves against Covid-19 but remained opposed to mandatory vaccinations. Putin also...
AFP An Indian man mistakenly declared dead after a road accident only to be found still breathing in a hospital morgue freezer has been cremated after...
AFP The Netherlands could announce tougher Covid-19 restrictions this week, just days after four nights of riots against the existing partial lockdown, the country’s health minister...
AFP An EU observer mission on Tuesday reported irregularities in Venezuelan elections for governors and mayors over the weekend, in which opposition parties participated for the...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Sudanese leaders in calls Monday that the country needs to make more progress on democracy before Washington resumes...
AFP Israel rolled out Covid-19 vaccinations for children aged five to 11 on Tuesday, one of only a handful of countries to inoculate minors that young...
AFP Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido called Monday for “sincere unity” following a disastrous defeat in regional elections the day before. The fractured opposition broke a...
AFP Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso granted a pardon Monday to inmates with serious illnesses and those jailed for traffic violations to alleviate overcrowding in the country’s...
AFP Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency said Monday it had arrested dozens of Islamist Hamas members in the occupied West Bank who were preparing anti-Israeli...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday nominated Jerome Powell for a second term as Federal Reserve Chair, allowing him to continue his role overseeing the...
AFP International rights groups raised alarm over recent transfers of activists to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan from Russia as top EU diplomat Josep Borrell met foreign ministers...
AFP The government of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, whose 2018 election is not recognized by part of the international community, won a landslide victory in Sunday’s...
AFP With opposition parties participating for the first time since 2017 and European Union observers returning, Venezuela’s Sunday elections represent an early contest for power between...
AFP Colombia’s President Ivan Duque issued an apology Friday after cadets at a police academy caused outrage by dressing up as Nazis for a “cultural exchange”...
AFP Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosted former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday in Madrid, his last stop on a European tour...
AFP South Africa has experienced a “deeply disturbing” increase in rape and murder, partially explained by deadly riots in July, the police minister said on Friday....
AFP Remains of a toothless, two-legged dinosaur species that lived some 70 million years ago has been discovered in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, calling it a...
AFP Venezuela’s opposition will contest regional elections Sunday for the first time in three years but it will do so disunited and unconvinced President Nicolas Maduro...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for dialogue between his Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko and the country’s opposition, exiled since Minsk suppressed mass anti-government...
AFP The United States wants to produce one billion more doses of mRNA vaccines each year, starting in 2022, both for the current pandemic and future...
AFP A 50-year-old man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sexually assaulting his step-daughter was executed on Wednesday in the southern US state of Mississippi,...
AFP Leading Cuban protest leader Yunior Garcia acknowledged Thursday that his flight to Spain following pressure from the authorities on the island was a “painful blow”...
AFP England fly-half George Ford will leave Leicester to join Premiership rivals Sale ahead of the 2022/23 season, the clubs announced on Wednesday. The 28-year-old, who...
AFP Migrants have continued to provide a strong financial boost to their home countries this year, increasing cash sent to their families, the World Bank said...
AFP US lawmakers will vote Wednesday to censure a Trump loyalist for posting an animated video depicting him killing a colleague and attacking President Joe Biden, in...
AFP Ecuadoran police and soldiers took complete control Tuesday of a prison where riots between rival gangs left 68 dead over the weekend, the head of...
AFP A Colombian nun who was kidnapped and held by jihadists in Mali for more than four years returned to her home country on Tuesday. “Welcome,...
AFP A year before the World Cup in Qatar, Amnesty International Tuesday urged the energy-rich emirate to end abuses against migrant workers, many of whom built...
AFP Video of Chinese health workers killing a pet dog with a crowbar after its owners were sent into Covid quarantine has sparked outrage, with social...
AFP The number of smokers worldwide has dropped steadily in recent years, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, urging countries to step up control measures further...
AFP The Taliban have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan after duping them into believing they would be marrying into...
AFP Bolivia’s opposition on Monday stepped up its demands on leftist President Luis Arce with a call for the repeal of more laws after a week...
AFP A volcano that destroyed an entire town in Colombia with the death of some 25,000 people spewed ash and gas this weekend on the 36th...
