AFP Colombia gave the green light Friday to export dried cannabis flowers for use in medical products in addition to allowing manufacturers to produce goods such...
AFP The latest death toll from floods that hit western Germany this month stands at 180, with about 150 still missing, authorities said on Friday. With...
AFP Nine people, including public hospital staff, have been arrested in Peru accused of “selling” intensive care beds to desperate coronavirus patients for thousands of dollars...
AFP Argentina has complained to Russia about delays in delivering second doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a letter warning of breach of contract...
AFP Riots at two prisons in Ecuador on Wednesday left at least 18 dead and more than 50 injured, including police officers, authorities said, updating an...
AFP The US-Mexican border will remain closed to non-essential traffic until August 21 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the two countries said Wednesday, despite Mexico’s efforts...
AFP Peru’s left-wing President-elect Pedro Castillo revealed on Tuesday he would be looking to form a pluralistic government in his first remarks to reporters since his...
AFP Huan Huan, a giant panda on loan to France by Beijing since 2012, is pregnant again and could soon grace the country with her second...
AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday defended Germany’s warning systems against widespread criticism after catastrophic floods claimed the lives of at least 165 people. On a...
AFP/Editor President Nicolas Maduro’s government repatriated more than 700 Venezuelans who fled to nearby Trinidad and Tobago amid their homeland’s crippling economic crisis, the Foreign Ministry...
AFP The widow of Haiti’s slain president Jovenel Moise returned home Saturday after being treated in Florida for wounds she suffered in the attack, an official...
AFP South African authorities said Saturday they were investigating possible pollution suspected to be linked to a spill at a chemical plant attacked during last week’s...
AFP Peruvian police announced Friday the arrest of the suspected killer of an Italian missionary in the country’s north, a crime Pope Francis described as an...
AFP First there were fake vaccines. Now bogus coronavirus immunization certificates are being offered for sale in the Mexican capital, aimed at people traveling to countries...
AFP Rwanda will put the capital Kigali and eight other districts across the country under lockdown from Saturday to rein in surging coronavirus cases and deaths,...
AFP Russia on Friday said that the United States had failed in its mission in Afghanistan and blamed the withdrawal of foreign forces for the war-torn...
AFP Coronavirus-linked deaths in Africa surged by 43 percent in the space of a week, driven by a lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen, the World...
AFP European Union election experts met on Wednesday with Venezuela’s defense minister and Supreme Court president, at a time when the opposition is demanding the release...
AFP Argentina made progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund on restructuring the country’s crippling debt, the economy ministry said on Tuesday. Economy Minister Martin...
AFP Peru’s electoral tribunal announced on Tuesday that it will proclaim on July 20 a winner from last month’s presidential election. “We hope that by Tuesday...
AFP A memorial honoring the victims of an apartment building collapse nearly three weeks ago in the Florida beachfront community of Surfside may be built on...
AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that Mexico will host talks between his government and the opposition, but insisted he will only take part if...
AFP Assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s security chief made several visits in recent months to Colombia, where a number of mercenaries implicated in the brazen attack...
AFP US law enforcement and national security officials met with Haiti’s leaders and police to offer assistance in the wake of president Jovenel Moise’s assassination, the...
AFP At least 26 people died in nearly two days of clashes between Venezuelan security forces and gangs that control poor neighborhoods of Caracas, the government...
AFP Pope Francis has had “satisfactory blood tests” as he recuperates from colon surgery and is gradually starting to work again, according to the daily bulletin...
AFP More than six months after the deadly US Capitol insurrection, authorities on Friday began the process of dismantling fencing and barricades surrounding the iconic Washington...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s disapproval rating passed 50 percent for the first time, according to a poll published by the Datafolha Institute, marking a new...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used foul language Thursday as he said he would refuse to answer corruption charges that a Senate committee is investigating involving...
AFP An Italian citizen was lynched on Thursday by a group of villagers in southern Honduras after he was accused of killing one of his neighbors,...
AFP The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hit out on Wednesday at Colombia’s “disproportionate” and “lethal” response to anti-government protests that broke out just over two...
AFP A former director of Brazil’s health ministry was arrested Wednesday while testifying before a Senate commission investigating how the government of President Jair Bolsonaro has...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was “shocked” by the assassination of Haiti’s president and that “a lot” more information is needed. “We are...
AFP US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was “shocked” by the assassination of Haiti’s president and that “a lot” more information is needed. “We are shocked...
AFP An Ecuadorian businessman has been jailed over a scam to sell body bags to a hospital for more than 10 times their cost price amid...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido in a letter Monday even in the midst of efforts to resume negotiations...
AFP Mexican authorities on Monday arrested a former top police official accused of torturing suspects in a case involving a French woman whose imprisonment on kidnapping...
AFP/Editor A woman from Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people was chosen Sunday to lead the drafting of the country’s new constitution, in a bid to spread power...
AFP Israel attacked Gaza military targets late Saturday, the army and Palestinian sources said, after incendiary balloons from the Palestinian territory caused fires in Israel in...
AFP Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets Saturday to protest against President Jair Bolsonaro, who faces an investigation over an allegedly corrupt Covid vaccine deal. ...
AFP Cyprus on Saturday requested emergency assistance of planes from Israel and the EU to fight a wildfire fanned by strong winds and high temperatures that...
AFP Venezuelan rights group Fundaredes said Friday authorities had arrested its director and two other activists who have lifted the lid on fighting near the border...
AFP An incendiary balloon launched from Gaza Friday caused a brush fire in southern Israel, firefighters said, a day after similar attacks led to Israeli air...
AFP Opposition lawmakers in Brazil launched a fresh bid Wednesday to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro as more allegations broke of corruption in acquiring coronavirus vaccines to...
AFP Two doses of Covid vaccine appear to provide protection against the rapidly spreading Delta variant, the European Medicines Agency said Thursday. The upbeat assessment came...
AFP Unemployment in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, remained at a record level in the three months from February, with 14.8 million of its 212 million...
AFP Colombia’s military seized six tons of cocaine from a jungle laboratory run by ELN guerillas in the southwest of the country, Defense Minister Diego Molano...
AFP The Lebanese army will start offering tourists helicopter joyrides this week in a bid to boost the coffers of one of the crisis-hit country’s key...
AFP Anti-government protesters and police traded blows on Monday in demonstrations across Colombia that marked two months of unrest in which more than 60 people have...
AFP/Editor The 193 member states of the United Nations have thus far failed to agree on a peacekeeping budget for the year beginning July 1, which...
AFP Four policemen were among nine people killed in three separate attacks blamed on Colombian armed groups that continue to sow mayhem in the country in...
AFP Challenges to balloting in Peru’s disputed June 6 presidential election can resume as a new judge was sworn in Saturday to the panel overseeing vote...
AFP Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a journalist, former opposition lawmaker and son of ex-president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, has been arrested on charges of undermining Nicaragua’s sovereignty,...
AFP Joe Biden marked Pride Month with joyful optimism and somber reflection Friday as the US president named an LGBTQ rights envoy and created a national...
AFP Colombian President Ivan Duque said Friday the helicopter he was flying in near the border with Venezuela was hit by gunfire. “It is a cowardly...
AFP A Spaniard and two Ethiopian employees of medical charity MSF have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, the organisation said in a...
AFP A magistrate on Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday annulled two more cases against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that had been brought by...
AFP Almost three weeks after a cliffhanger presidential election in Peru, the announcement of final results appeared even further off Thursday after a judge on the...
AFP Colombia is home to the world’s largest variety of butterflies, approximately 20 percent of all known species, according to a study published Tuesday by the...
AFP Indigenous protesters armed with bows and arrows clashed Tuesday with police outside Brazil’s Congress, leaving the area enveloped in tear gas and leading lawmakers to...
AFP Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned Tuesday of a “new outbreak” of coronavirus in Israel after a rise in infections he said was likely due to...
AFP Chile will inaugurate the convention tasked with writing its new constitution on July 4, President Sebastian Pinera announced Sunday, as the South American country moves...
AFP Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said talks Monday with UN diplomats supporting a fragile month-old ceasefire had gone badly, accusing Israel of a lack of will...
AFP Brazil on Saturday crossed the grim threshold of 500,000 coronavirus deaths, trailing only the United States in lives lost to Covid-19. “500,000 lives lost due...
AFP President Joe Biden went to church Saturday in his hometown a day after US Roman Catholic bishops issued a challenge to him over his support...
AFP Peru’s rightwing presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori, narrowly trailing in an unconfirmed count of votes cast on June 6, repeated fraud allegations Thursday as a review...
AFP Three boats carrying a total of 80 migrants hoping to reach Britain were rescued Friday after their makeshift vessels ran into trouble, France’s regional maritime...
AFP A month after more than 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, around 3,000 of them are still inside the Spanish enclave, the...
AFP The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge by Republican-led states to former president Barack Obama’s health care program. In a 7-2 decision, the...
AFP/Editor Peru’s leftist presidential hopeful Pedro Castillo, narrowly leading in a vote count already nine days under way, on Tuesday rejected calls from the rightwing camp...
AFP/Editor Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on Tuesday revealed it had hit a setback in trials of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination...
AFP/Editor Bolivia’s former acting president Jeanine Anez, arrested after coup allegations levelled by her predecessor and rival Evo Morales, denounced her status as a “political prisoner”...
AFP/Salle de presse Two soldiers will face charges of homicide and negligence over a massive explosion at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea that killed more...
AFP/Editor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was fined $100 Saturday for violating Covid-19 containment measures in Sao Paulo state by failing to wear a face mask and...
AFP Sri Lanka announced an investigation Thursday into a possible oil slick reported off its west coast where a container ship is submerged after burning for...
AFP A member of a splinter group from Colombia’s FARC ex-guerrilla organization was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison for the kidnap and murder of...
AFP/Editor Brazil’s health regulator approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine Friday for use in children aged 12 and up, though they will likely have to wait months...
AFP/Editor At least 12 people, including eight children, were killed when heavy monsoon rains caused a residential building to collapse in a Mumbai slum, Indian authorities...
AFP/Editor Colombia in 2020 managed to reduce by seven percent its land surface under coca cultivation, but remained the world’s largest producer of cocaine, a UN...
AFP/Editor Far-left trade unionist Pedro Castillo has cast himself as the winner of Peru’s presidential election, thanking foreign nations for “victory” messages even as election officials...
AFP/Editor Peru’s right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on Monday raised allegations of “irregularities” and “signs of fraud” in Sunday’s run-off election as her rival, the far-left...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support Monday for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan...
AFP/Editor Right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori held a narrow lead over radical leftist Pedro Castillo following a partial vote count in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday. With...
AFP/Editor A man armed with a knife killed five people and wounded 15 others in a city in eastern China, state media reported. The attack occurred...
AFP/Editor The international airport in DR Congo’s Goma reopened Saturday, two weeks after a devastating volcanic eruption near the eastern city, with the arrival of a...
AFP/Editor Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday she hoped for “concrete measures” at the global summit on climate change due to take place in the Scottish...
AFP/Editor Mexico’s foreign minister on Friday hit out at the head of the Organization of American States, which will monitor elections this weekend, calling his performance...
AFP/Editor Honduras will open an embassy in Jerusalem this month, the country’s president said Thursday, in a bid to build closer ties with Israel after decades...
AFP/Editor Chile on Thursday became the latest country to limit use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, linked to rare blood clots, when a 31-year-old man developed...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden will announce within days the details of a plan to export 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses to other countries “without any political...
AFP/Editor The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday warned of “staggering health needs” in the occupied Palestinian Territories after last month’s conflict between Israel and Islamist group...
AFP/Editor Peru on Monday more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll, becoming the country with the highest Covid-19 mortality per capita anywhere in the world....
AFP/Editor The World Health Organization on Tuesday approved the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use — the second Chinese jab to receive the WHO’s green light....
AFP/Editor Brazil’s economy, the largest in Latin America, returned to its pre-pandemic level with stronger-than-expected growth of 1.2 percent in the first quarter, the government said...
AFP/editor Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that the apparent funding by the United States of an anti-corruption group critical of his government amounted to...
AFP/Editor Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised the Yanomami indigenous people in remarks released Sunday that there will be no mining on their land unless they want...
AFP/Editor New York City is to build a homeless shelter in an expensive Manhattan area known as “Billionaire’s Row” following a lengthy legal battle. Mayor Bill...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden pledged Sunday to tell Russian leader Vladimir Putin at their June summit that Washington will not let Moscow “abuse” human rights. The...
AFP/Editor More than a thousand refugees left a camp in Rwanda to return to the Democratic of Congo on Saturday, officials said, after escaping over the...
AFP/Editor Colombian President Ivan Duque announced Friday he was deploying military troops to Cali, at the epicenter of bloody anti-government protests across the country that have...
AFP/Editor The CoronaVac vaccine reduces coronavirus mortality by 97 percent, according to early results of the immunization campaign in Uruguay, which relies heavily on the Chinese...
AFP/Editor German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Friday he will stand for a second five-year term in the largely ceremonial role, seen as providing a kind of...
AFP/Editor Indigenous Brazilians of the Mundurucu ethnic group on Wednesday said their leaders were attacked following a police operation aimed at kicking out miners squatting on...
AFP/Editor Qatar announced Wednesday it would provide $500 million for Gaza’s reconstruction, after the Palestinian enclave was battered by Israeli air strikes in 11 days of...
AFP/Editor The Jesuit congregation of Chile has acknowledged that its priests sexually abused 64 people, including 34 children, between 2005 and 2020, according to a report...
AFP/Editor Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where...
AFP/Editor Six presidents of Latin American and Caribbean countries called Monday on the international community for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, asking those countries with the...
AFP/Editor More than 200 passengers were injured in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Monday when two metro trains collided in a tunnel, police said. ...
AFP/Editor Animal rights protesters on Saturday blockaded four British distribution centres for fast-food chain McDonald’s, demanding they become fully plant-based by 2025. The Animal Rebellion group...
AFP/Editor Brazilian ex-presidents and longtime rivals Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Fernando Henrique Cardoso said Friday they had met to discuss their shared opposition to...
AFP/Editor Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday ruled out asking the central bank chief to stay on for another term, saying he would replace...
AFP/Editor Nearly 200 human rights and labor activists were killed in Colombia in 2020, the worst toll in 11 years, an NGO said as the country...
AFP/Editor New filings for unemployment aid declined for the third straight week in the United States, government data said Thursday, sending the closely watched employment metric...
AFP/Editor Colombia’s government was on Wednesday verifying intelligence that a wanted dissident leader of the FARC ex-guerilla group had been killed in Venezuela. Defense Minister Diego...
AFP/Editor A court in Guinean capital Conakry fined a prominent journalist the equivalent of 420 euros ($515) Wednesday for “insulting” President Alpha Conde, as he was...
AFP/Editor More than 1.5 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been injected into people’s arms around the world, six months after the vaccination drive started, according...
AFP/Editor US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday insisted the US was “not standing in the way of diplomacy” in the UN by not backing...
AFP/Editor The EU’s drug agency on Monday approved the storage of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in fridges for up to a month, in a move that...
AFP/Editor US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Israel and Palestinians to “protect civilians, especially children”, reiterating that Israel “as a democracy has an...
AFP/Editor The mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer of the digestive system, the hospital where he...
AFP/Editor Israel on Sunday told the UN Security Council that the recent deadly violence was premeditated by Hamas, urging condemnation of the militants during a session...
AFP/Editor Two tornadoes that struck central and eastern China killed at least 12 people and injured more than 400, authorities said Saturday. Violent winds of more...
AFP/Editor Egypt opened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza Saturday to allow 10 ambulances to transport Palestinians seriously wounded in Israeli air strikes to Egyptian hospitals,...
AFP/Editor Russia on Friday formally designated the United States and the Czech Republic as “unfriendly states” amid the biggest crisis in ties between Moscow and Washington...
AFP/Editor The WHO urged wealthy countries Friday to stop vaccinating children against Covid-19 and instead donate doses to poorer nations, while warning that the pandemic’s second...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden said Thursday that Vladimir Putin was not connected to a Russia-based criminal cyber attack on a huge US fuel pipeline but that...
AFP/Editor Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has indicated he is ready to restart halted talks with the exiled opposition leader, according to state media. Negotiations between the...
AFP/Editor Instagram on Wednesday began letting English-language users enhance profiles to show new gender pronouns they want applied to them in conversation. The photo-centric social network...
AFP/Editor A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman to nine days in jail for calling on people to join demonstrations in support of...
AFP/Editor Hamas Islamists said they had fired 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv on Tuesday, unleashing a massive barrage on Israel’s economic hub, in retaliation for an...
AFP/Editor Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian states on Tuesday suspended immunization of pregnant women with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on the advice of...
AFP/Editor Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro rode at the head of a large motorbike rally by his supporters on Sunday amid harsh criticism over his management of...
AFP/Editor Donald Trump encouraged the Capitol rioters and so earned his Facebook ban, but the social media giant’s rules are in “shambles” and need fixing, the...
AFP/Editor A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, killing six people in the early hours of Sunday before taking his own life, US police...
AFP/Editor A shooting in New York’s bustling Times Square on Saturday injured a four-year-old girl and two women, in the latest incident of gun violence in...
AFP/Editor The death toll from bombs planted outside a girls’ school in an area of the Afghan capital populated largely by the Shiite Hazara community has...
AFP/Editor Russia on Saturday condemned attacks on civilians after violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound and urged both sides...
AFP/Editor Some 60 people, including opposition figures detained for months, will stand trial in Guinea over deadly protests surrounding last year’s presidential election, according to the...
AFP/Editor The World Health Organization on Friday urged governments to refrain from vaccinating children against coronavirus until the elderly and at-risk worldwide have received the vaccine....
AFP/Editor France has ordered a mandatory 10-day quarantine for arrivals from seven additional countries in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19, a government source...
AFP/Editor Colombia’s government on Thursday invited protest leaders to a dialogue in an attempt to calm tensions following more than a week of deadly demonstrations against...
AFP/Editor Health officials in Russia approved a single-dose version of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the developers of the shot said Thursday. The Russian Direct Investment...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden said Wednesday that America’s Republicans face an identity crisis and a “mini-revolution” after Donald Trump’s presidency. The Democrat, who defeated Trump last...
AFP/Editor Facebook’s independent oversight board on Wednesday upheld the platform’s ban on former US president Donald Trump but called for a further review of the case...
AFP/Editor US President Joe Biden said Tuesday he expects to hold a summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a June trip to Europe. “That...
AFP/Editor Two patients died after a fire broke out in the coronavirus ward of a hospital in northern South Africa, the local health department said. ...
AFP/Editor US biotech firm Novavax said Monday it had started clinical trials of its proposed Covid-19 vaccine on children, in a program that will involve up...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden used the 10th anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden — “a moment I will never forget” — to reaffirm...
AFP/Editor Pope Francis on Saturday launched a month-long prayer marathon to hasten the end of the coronavirus pandemic with a prayer at St. Peter’s Basilica in...
AFP/Editor A delegation of Mexico’s Zapatista demobilized guerrilla group boarded a sailboat Friday for a transatlantic voyage to Europe to meet fellow anti-capitalists and raise awareness of...
AFP/Editor At least 12 Covid-19 patients died Saturday in the latest in a series of hospital fires in India, local media reported, as the country’s health...
AFP/Editor Colombian President Ivan Duque caved in Friday to widespread anger and said he would overhaul a proposed tax reform that many said would leave them...
AFP/Editor The frontrunner in Peru’s June presidential runoff, leftist Pedro Castillo, was discharged from a clinic Friday after illness forced him to suspend campaigning, denying it...
AFP/Editor Nearly three-quarters of female journalists say they have been victims of harassment online and for 20 percent this has transferred into offline attacks, according to...
AFP/Editor Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday accused electoral authorities of an attack on democracy after they disqualified a gubernatorial candidate accused of rape,...
AFP/Editor Switzerland said Wednesday it would provide over $300 million to help boost access to jabs, tests and treatments in the fight against Covid-19, and to...
AFP/Editor A 54-year woman has died in Canada after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, the first fatality linked to the drug in the country, provincial authorities...
AFP/Editor Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to mask up outdoors when there is no crowd, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, before celebrating by taking...
AFP/Editor Spain said Tuesday it will impose a 10-day quarantine on all travellers arriving from India in response to the emergence of a fast-spreading coronavirus variant...
AFP/Editor A poignant video has emerged showing the crew of a sunken Indonesian submarine singing happily together on board their vessel. The video, filmed a few...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden has hit some big targets in 100 days, starting with an epic effort to pull the United States from its Covid-19 nightmare,...
AFP/Editor US President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the Armenian genocide, a landmark step in defiance of Turkey which strongly rejects the label for the 1915-1917...
AFP/Editor Mexican lawmakers on Friday approved a controversial reform extending the term of the Supreme Court president, despite criticism from the opposition and even within President Andres...
AFP/Editor IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday called for adoption of “an international carbon price floor” for large emitters such as the G20 countries in...
AFP/Editor The House of Representatives voted Thursday to make the US capital Washington the nation’s 51st state, but the historic effort is widely expected to fail...
AFP/Editor The Italian government said Wednesday it plans to gradually lift Covid-19 restrictions from next week, with restaurants and movie theatres set to reopen. Authorities said...
AFP/Editor Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that the European Union needs more power to coordinate the bloc’s response to health crises like the coronavirus pandemic,...
AFP/Editor Russian President Vladimir Putin called communist Cuba’s new leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Tuesday to discuss strengthening the two countries’ “strategic partnership,” the Russian foreign ministry said...
AFP/Editor wo years into a malaria vaccine pilot scheme, more than 650,000 children have been immunised across Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization said...
AFP/Editor Advisors to US President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin discussed on Monday the possibility of a summit between the two amid strained bilateral...
AFP/Editor Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday replaced Raul Castro as the leader of Cuba and its all-powerful communist party, the party announced, ending six decades of Castro...
Peru’s Congress on Friday voted to ban former president Martin Vizcarra, implicated in a scandal over Covid-19 vaccinations, from holding public office for 10 years. The...
AFP/Editor Russia said on Friday it would ban a string of top officials from US President Joe Biden’s administration from entering the country. Attorney General Merrick...
AFP/Editor China’s Coronavac vaccine was 67 percent effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 and 80 percent at preventing death, according to real-life results unveiled Friday from Chile’s...
AFP/Editor Brazil’s full Supreme Court upheld a ruling Thursday annulling former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s corruption convictions, which cleared the way for him to...
AFP/Editor US President Joe Biden warned the Taliban Wednesday he would hold them accountable on Afghanistan after the US exit and pressed nations including Pakistan to...
AFP/Editor Russian animal rights activists on Wednesday welcomed a ban on the seizure of pets as an official means of pressuring people in debt to pay...
AFP/Editor Paraguay on Monday reported a record 78 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours, a number health authorities fear will grow further in the country of 7.1...
AFP/Editor UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gave a stern assessment Monday of the international community’s failure to mount a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic, saying...
AFP/Salle de presse The Minnesota judge presiding over the trial of the police officer charged with murdering George Floyd denied a defense request on Monday to...
AFP/Editor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he was the victim of “judicial activism” after a Supreme Court judge ordered the Senate to launch an inquiry...
AFP/Editor Brazil wrapped up a massive auction Friday for concessions to operate 22 airports, a rail line and five ports with a total take of $620...
AFP/Editor President Joe Biden’s top official for the Mexican border, where US authorities are struggling to stop a huge flow of undocumented migrants, will step down,...
AFP/editor Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza claimed Wednesday that without economic sanctions against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, the country would already have purchased all...
AFP/Editor Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez on Wednesday announced a three-week nighttime curfew after a second consecutive day of record coronavirus infections. The curfew will enter into...
AFP/Editor Apprehensions of undocumented migrants on the US border with Mexico soared 70 percent in March to 172,331, hitting the highest level in 15 years, US...
AFP/Editor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doubled down on his opposition to lockdown measures to contain Covid-19 Wednesday, as experts warned a large-scale stay-at-home was “absolutely necessary”...
AFP/Editor US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he has kept clear of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell in a deliberate measure to restore the independence at...
AFP/Editor Peru on Saturday reported a record daily 294 coronavirus deaths, the health ministry said, just over a week before millions of people are due to...
AFP/Editor The head of the Minneapolis Police Department discussed training and de-escalation techniques on the witness stand on Monday at the trial of the former police...
AFP/Editor Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday gave final approval to legislation allowing him to hold office for two additional six-year terms, giving himself the possibility...
AFP/Editor Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez, who has been vaccinated against Covid-19, announced late Friday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. “At the end of...
AFP/Editor The International Criminal Court on Friday welcomed US President Joe Biden’s lifting of sanctions imposed by Donald Trump on the tribunal’s prosecutor, saying it signalled...
AFP/Editor Portugal will extend its suspension of flights to and from Brazil and the United Kingdom until April 15, the government said in a bid to...
AFP/Editor US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Tuesday that human rights were declining around the world and vowed to do more, voicing particular outrage at...
AFP/Editor The World Health Organization chief called Tuesday for investigators looking into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to delve deeper into a theory about a...
AFP/Editor The United States said Saturday it was “deeply concerned by growing signs of anti-democratic behavior” in Bolivia and urged La Paz to release former interim...
AFP/Editor The trial of the white police officer facing murder and manslaughter charges for the death of George Floyd is a referendum on American justice and...
AFP/Editor The Suez Canal jam has highlighted the importance of further developing Russia’s Arctic shipping route, which is increasingly accessible due to climate change, a senior...
AFP/Editor European Council president Charles Michel said the EU and US can promote democratic values by working together, as President Joe Biden joined a video summit...
