AFP Most children in Latin America and the Caribbean under the age of 11 are unable to understand simple written texts due to an “educational catastrophe”...
AFP A Brazilian former education minister accused of influence peddling, allegedly at the request of President Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested Wednesday, police and a defense lawyer...
AFP Eighteen police officers are “missing” following an attack by Indigenous protesters on a police station in Ecuador’s eastern Amazon region, the interior minister said on...
AFP Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs will return to the 100 metres at next week’s Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, Italy’s athletics federation (FIDAL) said on...
AFP US health authorities are expected to order Juul Labs to stop selling e-cigarettes in the world’s biggest economy, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The...
AFP Workers at Chile’s state mining company Codelco, the largest producer of copper in the world, went on an “indefinite” strike on Wednesday, unions said, protesting...
AFP A suspected drug trafficker known as the “Pablo Escobar of Brazil,” was arrested in Hungary on Tuesday after more than a year on the run,...
AFP Brazil’s leftist former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who heads the presidential election race, announced Tuesday that his priorities in power would be social...
