AFP A record of almost 19,000 children have crossed the dangerous Darien Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama this year en route to the United States,...
AFP Iranian women fans hoping to attend a football match for the first time in two years will have to wait — Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier...
AFP Starving microorganisms capable of surviving in extreme conditions have already managed to “eat” a nail in just three days. In Chile, a scientist is testing...
AFP Latin America’s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 1.5 million Friday, according to an AFP tally drawn from official figures. The toll is at least 1,500,350...
AFP President Joe Biden put a gloss on disappointing job creation figures Friday by focusing on a drop in unemployment, which he said marks a “sign...
AFP The United States and Mexico on Friday vowed to overhaul their joint fight against drug cartels, during a visit by a high-level delegation including US...
AFP Police in Rio de Janeiro found a vast collection of Nazi uniforms and memorabilia in the home of an alleged child abuser, along with several...
AFP A court in Argentina has dismissed a case alleging Vice President Cristina Kirchner obstructed an investigation while president into an attack on a Jewish center...
AFP Clouds of thick ash from the volcano on La Palma on Thursday forced the island’s airport to close for the second time since the eruption...
AFP A row broke out on Thursday in France between the government and a leader of the Catholic church over whether confessions of child abuse made...
AFP Former Argentine president Mauricio Macri will miss a hearing this week in which he was to be questioned about alleged spying on relatives of 44...
AFP More than 50 migrants have died since the start of the year while trying to cross the Panama jungle in an effort to reach the...
AFP A vehicle packed with US-bound migrants traveling with a people smuggler crashed in eastern Mexico on Wednesday, leaving three Hondurans dead and 23 injured, authorities said....
AFP The bodies of 17 migrants have been found washed up on a Libyan beach after their boat capsized during a bid to reach Europe by...
AFP Two priests were acquitted on Wednesday of charges linked with sex abuse at a school for altar boys, after the Vatican’s first criminal trial for...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Europe was to blame for the current energy crisis after soaring gas prices spurred accusations that Moscow is...
AFP Pope Francis expressed his “great sorrow” for the victims of sexual abuse by French Catholic clergy after the publication on Tuesday of a devastating report,...
AFP President Joe Biden left Tuesday for a swing district in Michigan to try to bridge the divide in his Democratic party over an ambitious social...
AFP Disgraced former Peru president Alberto Fujimori underwent heart surgery Monday after his health deteriorated, said his daughter Keiko Fujimori, who is also his political heir....
AFP Bolivia’s opposition have called for demonstrations against left-wing President Luis Arce to demand the release of former head of state Jeanine Anez and an end...
AFP World tourism surged in July, thanks to vaccination rollouts and fewer travel restrictions, but traveller numbers still fell far short of pre-pandemic levels, the UN’s...
AFP Religious leaders including Pope Francis and the world’s top Sunni Islam cleric issued a plea on Monday for a forthcoming UN climate conference to act...
AFP US President Joe Biden offered his congratulations Monday to Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, saying the “historic partnership” between the two nations will help...
AFP A pregnant 15-year-old girl underwent an ultrasound on stage during an anti-abortion rights protest in Mexico City Sunday, where some 10,000 demonstrators prayed and shouted...
AFP Iranian women will be allowed to enter a stadium in Tehran for the first time in two years to support the national team in a...
AFP Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets around the country Saturday, once again calling for the ouster of unpopular President Jair Bolsonaro over...
AFP Former Argentine president Mauricio Macri will be questioned in a probe into spy claims regarding the 2017 sinking of a submarine that left 44 people...
AFP The EU on Friday made clear it is prioritising its approach towards regional elections in Venezuela next month over its stance towards opposition leader Juan...
AFP Relatives gathered Friday at a morgue in Ecuador, clamoring for news about loved ones locked up at a prison where 118 convicts were killed in...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in Paris next week in a new bid to ease tensions after French anger over a...
AFP At least 118 inmates died in rioting in an Ecuador jail this week before police regained control Thursday. Following the latest carnage, here is a...
AFP Russian and US diplomats held talks behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday which both sides described as constructive, in the latest round of discussions...
AFP Chilean lawmakers on Wednesday approved a law establishing the rights to personal identity, free will and mental privacy, becoming the first country in the world...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Mexico next week to discuss a new strategy to combat drugs and organized crime, Mexican Foreign Minister...
AFP Lava from the erupting volcano on La Palma in the Canary Islands that began cascading into the ocean 36 hours ago has already covered more...
AFP Nepal has introduced a third gender category in its census for the first time, a move the Himalayan nation’s LGBTQ community hopes will bring them...
AFP Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Wednesday for new efforts to promote coronavirus vaccination within Arab communities, which are now the leading hotspots of Covid...
AFP Nearly 30 prisoners were killed in a battle between inmates equipped with firearms and grenades at a prison in Ecuador’s largest city Tuesday, officials said....
AFP Candidates who topped the electoral lists of Russia’s ruling party in this month’s legislative elections will not take their seats in parliament, officials said on...
AFP The World Health Organization unveiled a plan Tuesday to bring meningitis under control by 2030, slashing the 250,000 annual deaths caused by the debilitating disease....
AFP Top US General Mark Milley testified Tuesday that calls he made to his Chinese counterparts in the turbulent waning months of Donald Trump’s administration were...
AFP Mexico celebrated the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence from Spain on Monday with a commemoration featuring fireworks, theatre, and pyrotechnics in the capital’s central...
AFP South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday asked the World Trade Organization to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines to bridge the huge gap...
AFP Five people were killed in an attack by suspected dissident members of Colombia’s FARC rebels, officials said Sunday. The deadly incident took place at a...
AFP The United Nations expressed concern Monday at “violence and xenophobia” meted out to undocumented migrants in Chile over the weekend by locals fed up with...
AFP Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations pulled out of delivering an address to world leaders at the General Assembly later Monday, a UN spokesperson said....
AFP Several dozen Haitian and Cuban migrants bound for the US border, including 14 children, were abandoned Sunday along a Guatemala roadside by people who transported...
AFP The latest talks between Venezuela’s government and opposition in Mexico were set to resume after representatives of President Nicolas Maduro turned up a day late,...
AFP About 3,000 people marched Saturday in the northern Chilean port city of Iquique to protest the presence of undocumented Venezuelans, with some demonstrators scuffling with...
AFP Thousands of shark fins were confiscated by Colombian authorities before they could be illegally shipped to Hong Kong, officials said. Bogota “seized 3,493 shark fins...
AFP A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops Friday when clashes broke out on the sidelines of a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, the...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Friday said he remains confident the two spending bills at the heart of his domestic agenda will pass in Congress...
AFP Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has appealed his conviction for the murder of George Floyd, citing 14 complaints about his high-profile trial earlier this...
AFP Several dozen demonstrators briefly occupied the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange on Thursday to protest widening economic inequality in inflation-hit Brazil under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro....
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urged all countries to raise their climate ambitions as the UN Security Council took up the environmental crisis,...
AFP US Treasury Janet Yellen stressed the need to finalize a global agreement on taxation to end the “race to the bottom” in a meeting with...
AFP A bipartisan effort spurred by the death of George Floyd to pass a police reform bill in Congress has collapsed, US lawmakers said Wednesday, in...
AFP Peruvian workers laying gas pipes found the remains of eight people buried in a common tomb with food and musical instruments some 800 years ago,...
AFP US President Joe Biden was to meet Wednesday with the warring wings of his Democratic Party in an effort to save his troubled economic plans....
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged the United States on Wednesday to act quickly to tackle the causes of the migrant crisis affecting the...
AFP Some 19,000 migrants, mainly Haitians, are amassed on the north coast of Colombia, from where they hope to cross to Panama and find a route...
AFP The bodies of eight migrants, including three women and a child, have washed up on the shores of southern Spain over the past two days,...
AFP Mexico has told the United States that it wants a regional agreement to tackle the tide of migrants arriving at the two countries’ borders, Foreign...
AFP Pope Francis joked that “some people wanted me dead” and cardinals were already preparing to replace him after his colon surgery this summer, according to...
AFP President Joe Biden will push back against the idea that the United States is plunging into a new Cold War with key rivals in his...
AFP The US State Department cast doubt Monday on the integrity of Russia’s parliamentary election, saying a government crackdown on critics had “prevented” citizens from exercising...
AFP Firefighters battling to protect the world’s biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said Friday they are optimistic it can be saved. Flames...
AFP The high-level 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly gets underway next week amid confusion about whether all delegates, including world leaders, have to...
AFP Four decades after Shining Path guerillas massacred dozens of their loved ones in the town square, residents of Santiago de Lucanamarca, a remote settlement in...
AFP Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez announced a new cabinet on Friday in a bid to smother a political crisis that pitted him bitterly against his vice...
AFP Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, one of 10 US House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump in January, said Thursday he would not seek re-election, citing...
AFP More than 10,000 undocumented migrants, many of them Haitians, were being held under a bridge in Texas on Friday, US officials said, posing a new...
AFP Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner directly challenged her boss, President Alberto Fernandez on Thursday, demanding a cabinet reshuffle and blaming the ruling coalition’s recent electoral...
AFP Brazil’s Covid-unvaccinated President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he will attend next week’s United Nations conclave in New York, effectively defying city authorities who recently announced...
AFP Two out of three children in Latin America and the Caribbean have not returned to the classroom after months of coronavirus lockdown, the UN said...
AFP The international community should take urgent action to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the IMF said Thursday. With the country currently cut off from...
afp Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman convicted of the murder of George Floyd, pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a separate case in which he...
AFP Accessing Rio de Janeiro’s tourist sites became conditional Wednesday on presentation of a coronavirus vaccine certificate, as authorities seek to encourage people to get their...
AFP Arizona on Tuesday became the first US state to file suit against President Joe Biden‘s Covid vaccination mandate for federal employees and businesses with more than...
AFP Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke out against “denier” cardinals who refused the coronavirus vaccine, in an apparent swipe at his main opponent who recently contracted...
AFP A Mexican court has sentenced former drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, who headed one of the country’s leading cartels, to 28 years in prison, prosecutors...
AFP The Kremlin said Wednesday there were no formal discussions on military cooperation with Mali, after France warned the West African country against hiring hundreds of...
AFP Almost 1,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to go on hunger strike in protest at their detention conditions since a jailbreak last week, the...
AFP The United States said Tuesday it had evacuated nearly 500 “military and civilian” Afghans from Uzbekistan, while the ex-Soviet country declared there were now no...
AFP Six months after being arrested on coup charges by a Bolivian government allied to her political rival Evo Morales, ex-president Jeanine Anez is still awaiting a...
AFP A suspected Shining Path guerilla was killed in clashes with soldiers and police in a remote coca leaf growing region of Peru’s high jungle, the...
AFP Colombia said Monday it was sending 300 troops to the border with Venezuela after five soldiers were killed in a rebel attack that Bogota claimed...
AFP Several hundred Brazilians protested against President Jair Bolsonaro and demanded his impeachment in Sunday demonstrations called by conservative groups, days after a massive mobilization supporting...
AFP Reduced agricultural production, water scarcity, rising sea levels and other adverse effects of climate change could cause up to 216 million people to migrate within...
AFP President Vladimir Putin on Saturday unveiled a huge monument to legendary medieval prince Alexander Nevsky as he praised a “strong” Russia ahead of parliamentary polls....
AFP President Joe Biden visited a 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon on Saturday, concluding his tour of all three sites hit in the hijacked jetliner attacks...
AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Belarus to help migrants instead of trying to send them across the border into the European Union, branding these...
AFP Russia on Saturday said it was ready to resume anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States as America marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11. In a...
AFP A tornado hit the Sicilian island of Pantelleria on Friday, killing two people and seriously injuring four others, the civil protection agency said. The whirlwind...
AFP The head of the WHO Europe was Friday pessimistic about vaccines’ ability to put an end to the Covid pandemic, as new variants dash hopes...
AFP Brazilian truck drivers rallying in support of President Jair Bolsonaro ended three days of road blockades across the country Thursday after the far-right leader asked...
AFP Tropical storm Olaf strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific on Thursday as it churned towards the beach resorts of Los Cabos on Mexico’s Baja...
AFP Covid-19 vaccines are expected to be made compulsory Thursday for Los Angeles schoolchildren aged 12 and over, the first such requirement by a major education...
AFP US President Joe Biden will announce wider vaccine mandates for federal employees as part of a new effort to wrestle Covid-19 back under control in...
AFP The death toll from a devastating prison fire in Indonesia has risen to 44, authorities said Thursday, as families rushed to submit DNA samples to...
AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday described herself as a feminist, saying her position on equality between men and women had developed over the years. ...
AFP Pope Francis on Wednesday announced a promotion for a Chilean priest who was one of the first to denounce child sex abuse in the clergy...
AFP Indian authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new Covid-19 wave had already begun in...
AFP Beijing said Wednesday it welcomed the end of “three weeks of anarchy” in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, calling...
AFP A judge in the US state of Ohio has said a hospital cannot be forced to administer an unproven treatment to a patient with Covid-19,...
AFP A South African former apartheid-era officer, accused of killing a liberation activist half-a century ago, died Tuesday weeks before his appeal against prosecution was due...
AFP President Joe Biden flew Tuesday to storm-ravaged New York and New Jersey, just days after inspecting the damage caused by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana —...
AFP The Philippines reimposed Tuesday a virus lockdown in the capital Manila, a day after announcing the lifting of stay-at-home orders for more than 13 million...
AFP Coronavirus cut average life expectancy in Italy by 1.2 years in 2020, and by more than four years in parts of the country hit hard...
AFP A Saint Petersburg court on Monday sentenced a Russian man to three years in a penal colony for hitting a police officer at a rally...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Doha on Monday, an AFP correspondent saw, ahead of crisis talks with the Qataris after the Taliban...
AFP Two atypical cases of mad cow disease have been detected in Brazil, resulting in suspension of its exports of beef to China, the Agriculture Ministry...
AFP US President Joe Biden will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by traveling to all the three sites of the attacks, the White House said...
AFP A top Venezuelan official signaled on Saturday that talks between the government and the opposition aimed at resolving the country’s long-standing political crisis have yielded...
AFP The bodies of three Palestinians were discovered on Friday after an underground tunnel from the southern Gaza Strip to Egypt collapsed, authorities in the Islamist...
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he will travel next week to Qatar and Germany for talks on the Afghanistan crisis. Blinken told...
AFP Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a seminal case over the scope of the constitution’s protection of indigenous land. The powerful agribusiness lobby...
AFP President Joe Biden, who has made threats from climate change a priority, flies to New Orleans on Friday to tour damage from Hurricane Ida, which...
AFP Western Union announced on Thursday that it would resume its money transfer service to Afghanistan, allowing vital remittances into a country that faces huge economic hurdles...
AFP Defiant Afghan women held a rare protest Thursday saying they were willing to accept the burqa if their daughters could still go to school under...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday that he would propose constitutional reforms to reverse the effects of privatization in the electricity sector. The...
AFP The number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the burning season opened in August fell slightly from 2020, but remained close to the near-decade...
AFP Some 10,000 health workers in Greece faced being suspended as a deadline to get vaccinated against Covid-19 ran out on Wednesday, a union said. From...
AFP Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans Wednesday to instal up to 50,000 electric car charging points in Britain in the coming years. Shell...
AFP China’s special envoy for Asian affairs has wrapped an unannounced, week-long visit to Myanmar that included discussions with its junta leader on the country’s political...
AFP The ex-spokeswoman of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, on leave since July 2020 over alleged links to unlawful coronavirus contracts, has been given a warning...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday his American counterpart Joe Biden’s administration had “almost an obsession” with environmental issues, which he said was hurting US-Brazil...
AFP Heavily armed gangsters strapped hostages to their getaway cars after robbing two banks in Brazil, in a rampage that left three people dead, police and...
AFP Millions of Mexican schoolchildren began returning to classrooms on Monday after more than a year of distance learning, despite another wave of Covid-19 infections sweeping...
AFP A US woman has won a court order for a hospital in Ohio to treat her husband, who is on a ventilator with Covid-19, with...
AFP China on Monday announced a drastic cut to children’s online gaming time to just three hours a week during term time, the latest move in...
AFP A Brazilian court has sentenced Francoise de Souza Oliveira to 31 years in prison for murdering her husband, Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, authorities said Sunday....
AFP Scientific experts sent to the Galapagos Islands to count a critically endangered lizard species estimate there to be just 211 pink iguanas left, local authorities...
AFP Lawyers for Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez, in jail since March, said Friday they were appealing to a regional UN rights body for her. Attorney Luis...
AFP Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden’s administration of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in...
AFP A US air strike in Afghanistan killed two high-profile ISIS targets and left another wounded, the Pentagon said Saturday. No civilians were hurt in the...
AFP At least 21 people were killed and dozens remain missing as a boat packed with passengers and a sand-laden cargo ship collided Friday in a...
AFP A local legislator in Argentina was in stable condition Friday after being shot in the stomach while campaigning, doctors said. Miguel Arias, who represents the...
AFP Russia has fined two activists for organising a demonstration in support of Afghan women who face an uncertain future after the Taliban returned to power...
AFP The United Nations Security Council urged the international community to bring the perpetrators and instigators of the twin suicide bombings at Kabul airport to justice,...
AFP Sudan has received more than $857 million as part of a global allocation by the International Monetary Fund to help vulnerable countries, the central bank...
AFP Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday condemned the deadly attack outside Kabul airport and said Madrid was working to “evacuate as many people as...
AFP The Pentagon rejected reports Thursday that they are preparing to end evacuations from Afghanistan before this weekend, saying the operations from Kabul airport will continue...
AFP The death toll from heavy rains that triggered mudslides and floods in western Venezuela has risen to 20, local authorities said Wednesday, with 17 other...
AFP More than 750,000 Italians have signed a petition calling for the legalisation of euthanasia, organisers said on Wednesday, exceeding by far the half-a-million threshold needed...
AFP A 52-year-old Afghan woman stuck in a makeshift migrant camp on the border between Belarus and Poland risks dying without urgent help, a charity helping...
AFP Five members of a girls robotics team in Afghanistan were welcomed to Mexico Tuesday after fleeing their Taliban-controlled country. The team members, none of whom...
AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed their countries will step up efforts to counter “threats” emerging from Afghanistan following...
AFP President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday Russia would not interfere in Afghanistan and that Moscow had learned from the Soviet occupation of the country, a week...
AFP A woman convicted of witchcraft during the 17th-century Salem trials is expected to be pardoned thanks to a group of campaigning US schoolchildren. Elizabeth Johnson...
AFP Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that US forces are “pawning off” Afghans fleeing the Taliban to neighbouring Moscow-allied Central Asia. During a visit...
AFP Around 16,000 people were evacuated over the past 24 hours from Afghanistan through the Kabul airport, the Pentagon said Monday, as the US speeds toward...
AFP New York announced a vaccine mandate for all public school staff, including teachers and principals, Monday as the city escalates attempts to slow the spread...
AFP Bolivia’s jailed former president Jeanine Anez attempted to take her own life in prison on Saturday, her lawyer said, a day after prosecutors charged her...
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry pledged Friday to organize elections as soon as possible despite the devastation of last week’s earthquake, in a nation still reeling...
AFP Hurricane Grace rapidly strengthened into a major Category Three storm on Friday as it barreled towards Mexico for a second time, triggering warnings of significant...
AFP The Bolivian prosecutor’s office said on Friday it had filed charges of “genocide” and other crimes against former acting president Jeanine Anez, over the death...
AFP Human Rights Watch accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday of violating the right to free speech by blocking critics on social media, where the far-right...
AFP One of Italy’s most wanted international drug barons has been arrested in Dubai, police said on Thursday, following more than six years on the run....
AFP Pope Francis accepted a Brazilian bishop’s resignation Wednesday amid a scandal over a leaked sex tape and allegations he covered up cases of sexual abuse...
AFP Cuba published on Tuesday its first cybersecurity law, a move critics dismissed as a tool to limit political and civic freedoms on the Caribbean island....
AFP US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed Afghanistan on Tuesday and announced a virtual summit of the G7 leaders on the...
AFP Canada is temporarily closing its embassy in Kabul after evacuating staff ahead of Taliban fighters’ arrival in the Afghan capital, the Foreign Ministry in Ottawa...
AFP Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe denied responsibility for the murder of thousands of civilians by the military during his government’s crackdown on guerrillas in testimony...
AFP The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, congratulated the Taliban on Monday for their “victory” in returning to power in Afghanistan. Hamas...
AFP Fires tore through the hills west of Jerusalem for a second day on Monday as firefighters struggled to contain an expanding blaze, Israeli police and...
AFP Japan braced for further downpours on Sunday as rescuers sifted through flood and landslide damage after record rain that left at least three dead. Residents...
AFP Qatar called on the Taliban to adopt a ceasefire and reduce escalation Saturday as the insurgents’ lightning advance across Afghanistan entered a decisive phase. Doha...
AFP Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday began sending back some 800 unaccompanied migrant minors to Morocco three months after they arrived en mass,...
AFP Devastating wildfires in Bolivia consumed 749,000 hectares from January to July, the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) NGO said on Thursday night. FAN said it...
AFP Argentina on Thursday began distributing the first batch of more than one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine produced domestically. The South...
AFP Venezuela’s government and opposition will restart talks in Mexico with sanctions, political prisoners and elections on the table, but not the future of President Nicolas...
AFP Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP has reached a deal with the workers’ union at the world’s biggest copper mine, in Chile, which could prevent them going...
AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro drew criticism Tuesday for presiding over a military parade outside the presidential palace, a show of strength as he fends off...
AFP Before one of California’s worst-ever wildfires hit Greenville, the sky turned dark red like a warning. After the flames tore through the tiny town, all...
AFP/Editor Humanity can no longer delay “ambitious” climate action, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday after the release of a landmark UN report warning...
AFP/Editor US authorities said Saturday they were searching for five people missing as a huge wildfire raged in northern California, leaving two towns in little more...
AFP/Editor Forest fires this year have consumed more than 147,000 hectares (360,000 acres) in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department, the regional government reported Saturday. As in...
AFP Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached near-record levels for the 12 months through July, according to figures released Friday, the latest bleak news for the...
AFP Bolivia President Luis Arce vowed in a lively parliamentary session Friday to work tirelessly to punish those accused by the government of an alleged coup...
AFP Millions more Mexicans have fallen into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people living in one of the country’s top tourist destinations hit particularly...
AFP Venezuela will slash six zeroes off its inflation-battered currency the bolivar to make it easier to use, the central bank said on Thursday. The change...
At least 10 people were killed in a Texas road accident involving a truck that authorities suspect was transporting some 30 undocumented migrants, US media said...
AFP A Bolivian court on Tuesday added six months to the pre-trial detention of former acting president Jeanine Anez, her Twitter account said, denouncing a violation...
AFP Even though Barack Obama plans to celebrate his 60th birthday adhering to all the current health guidelines, the former president has come under fire —...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that his predecessors could still face prosecution despite low turnout in a referendum on whether to investigate...
AFP Zambian President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to quell electoral violence ahead of August 12 elections, the head of state said...
AFP Mexicans began voting Sunday in a national referendum promoted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on whether to investigate and prosecute his predecessors for alleged...
AFP Four of the world’s most prominent health, trade and financial organisations on Saturday implored Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to prioritise doses for poorer countries to combat...
AFP At least 249 rhinos were killed the first six months of this year in South Africa, the environment minister said Saturday, partly pushed by the...
AFP Brazil’s unemployment rate pulled marginally back from record levels to 14.6 percent in the rolling March to May quarter, according to official figures released on...
AFP A film warehouse in Sao Paulo was partially destroyed by a fire Thursday just months after employees of the Cinemateca Brasileira had warned of such...
AFP Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Thursday that he would release prisoners who have been tortured, saying such “medieval practices” must end. “We don’t...
AFP Leftist Pedro Castillo was sworn in as Peru’s fifth president in three years Wednesday on the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence, promising an end...
AFP US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused his Russian counterpart of seeking to disrupt the 2022 congressional elections by spreading “misinformation.” “Look at what Russia...
AFP Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has plummeted recently, on Tuesday named a senator from the largest bloc in congress as his new chief of...
AFP Chilean pedophile priest Fernando Karadima, whose case helped expose a culture of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church, died aged 90 at a retirement...
AFP Greece will open Covid-19 vaccinations to youngsters aged 12-15 in August, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias told local television on Monday. Vaccination for this group has...
AFP A lagoon in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region has turned bright pink in a striking, but frightful phenomenon experts and activists blame on pollution by a...
AFP Israel’s government Sunday unanimously approved a plan to drastically reduce carbon emissions by 2050, a move hailed as “a historic moment” as Israel ramps up...
