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 Afghanistan’s two Paralympic athletes have arrived in Tokyo and will compete at the Games, the International Paralympic Committee said Saturday. Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli...
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...