BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's Vice President said on Tuesday that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her home in the southwestern province of Cauca. She described...
MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as United States lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following his supporters' brazen attack...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms. President...
HOUSTON (AP) — A former suburban Houston police officer was set to be executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago. Robert Fratta, 65, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the November...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — “No amnesty! No amnesty! No amnesty!” The chant reverberated off the walls of the jam-packed hall at the University of Sao Paulo's law college on Monday afternoon. Within hours, it was the rallying cry...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital Bucharest has upheld the 30-day arrest of divisive social media personality and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate on charges of organised crime, human trafficking and rape, an...
LONDON (AP) — After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers got a chance to judge Prince Harry's book for themselves when it went on sale around the world on Tuesday. In Britain, a few stores opened at midnight to sell copies...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy will come “perilously close” to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies, the United States, Europe and China, the World Bank warned on Tuesday. In...
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government suspended issuing tourist and business visas Tuesday for South Koreans, and reportedly for Japanese, in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 testing requirements imposed by those countries on travellers...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazilian authorities vowed Monday to protect democracy and punish thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed and trashed the nation’s highest seats of power in chaos with striking similarities to the...
AP: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist agenda, including adopting a seemingly petty ban on displaying the Palestinian flag and shaking the foundations of Israel’s democracy with...
DAKAR (AP): At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the country’s president said on Sunday. President Macky Sall tweeted that the collision happened in Gnivy village, in the Kaffrine region, at about 3:...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The 15-member CARICOM grouping has “strongly” condemned “the violent invasion of government buildings that occurred in Brasilia on Sunday as it reaffirmed its commitment to the rule of law”. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has decided to eliminate the requirement for work permits for nationals of CARICOM countries who are gainfully employed in Antigua and Barbuda, effective January 1 this year. “The...
SANTA CRUZ, California (AP) — Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, shuttering schools, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power. Evacuation...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian authorities vowed Monday to protect democracy and punish thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed and trashed the nation's highest seats of power in chaos with striking...
KABUL (AP): The Taliban’s “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralysing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, head of a major aid agency told AP on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban...
BERLIN (AP): Climate activists pledged Sunday to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine that has become a battleground between the government and environmental campaigners. Hundreds of...
DUBAI (AP): Iranian hardliners on Sunday burnt France’s flag outside of its embassy in Tehran where they were protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics. The Charlie Hebdo...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban's “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralysing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-...
SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry's claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace in the capital Sunday, just a week after the inauguration...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian soldiers, family and mourners gathered in frigid weather in Kyiv on Sunday to pay tribute to a soldier killed fighting against Russian forces in Bakhmut, the strategic city under siege on the eastern...
BEIJING (AP) — After years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure to be among the first in line following the reopening Sunday of border crossing points. The ability of residents of the...