BRASILIA – The governor of Brazil’s northern state of Roraima on Friday asked the Supreme Federal Tribunal for permission to temporarily close the only land border crossing with neighboring Venezuela to halt the massive and […]
DAMASCUS – Bombs have fallen. Damascus has been beaten again. The United States, United Kingdom and France coalition launched airstrikes against Syrian targets as Donald Trump sought to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina, the world’s third biggest soy producer, booked its largest purchase of U.S. soybeans in 20 years this week after drought cut its harvest, forcing crushers there to turn to imports. The […]
BRASILIA – More than 60 Brazilian members of congress from the opposition Worker’s Party have formally changed their names, adding ‘Lula’ to their names after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was jailed last weekend. The […]
SANTIAGO – Some 126,000 passengers will be affected by the strike initiated by crew members of a subsidiary of the Latam Airlines, after negotiations with the workers’ union of the company that canceled about 800 […]
Mohsin Choudhry/The Santiago Times Publisher LAHORE – Pakistani Islamists who brought traffic in major cities to a standstill on Thursday have temporarily called off national protests after a long round of negotiations with the government […]
SRINAGAR – An eight-year-old girl was raped and murdered in India by a gang of Hindus trying to scare away a nomadic tribe group to which she belonged. Police in the occupied Kashmir valley say […]
WASHINGTON – Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified about data privacy on Tuesday in a marathon hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Here are seven takeaways. Facebook’s internal review of possible […]
ALGIERS – An Algerian military plane crashed and caught fire on Wednesday killing 257 people, mostly army personnel and members of their families. Hundreds of ambulances and dozens of fire trucks with their sirens wailing […]
BELEM – At least 23 people have been killed in Brazil, when prisoners attempted to escape from a correctional facility, local authorities said. Law enforcement agencies said one prison guard and 22 prisoners were killed […]
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