German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday for talks that are expected to focus on the future of a migration deal between...
January 24, 2020
The Philippine president has renewed a threat to terminate an accord that allows American forces to train in the country unless Washington restored a visa of a political ally linked...
January 24, 2020
From the roadside stand where his family sells mole, barbecue and chicken stew, Miguel Ángel Vázquez has seen all the caravans of Central American migrants and asylum seekers stream past...
January 24, 2020
One day after a vigilante group revealed that it was using children as young as 8 as “recruits” for armed defense patrols, Mexico's president said Thursday that drug cartels too...
January 24, 2020
The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in Australia have been identified by their employer. The men who...
January 24, 2020
China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass more than 20.5 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, even though the measures'...
January 24, 2020
North Korea has named as its new foreign minster a former senior army officer with little experience in dealings with the United States, in a possible indication it will take...
January 24, 2020
Cuba's state television showed documentary footage of four persons arrested as alleged members of the ‘Clandestinos' dissident group, which is accused of pouring pig's blood on José Martí sculptures since...
January 24, 2020
In one of the first cases of its kind, a court in El Salvador ordered a man held in jail Thursday pending trial on charges he promoted the formation of...
January 23, 2020
Hundreds of crime victims and their relatives began a four-day march to Mexico City Thursday to protest a wave of killings and disappearances that left 35,588 people dead in 2019....
January 23, 2020
The hundreds of Central American migrants walking north in southern Mexico have received steady media coverage in Mexico, but with sky high murders, a stagnant economy and corruption topping the...
January 23, 2020
Venezuela, already known as the most corrupt country in Latin America, added to the dubious distinction last year, entering the list of the world's top five most corrupt nations, according...
January 23, 2020
Haiti must set a firm date for the next round of elections, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo says. “That is the most important thing,” Pompeo said in an exclusive...
January 23, 2020
El Salvador's forensic institute on Thursday turned over to family members the remains of six of the more than 200 rural residents killed by soldiers in August 1982 El Calabozo...
January 23, 2020
Canada's Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it has been invited by Iran to participate in the download and analysis of the flight recorders from the downing of a Ukraine International...
January 23, 2020
The Vatican women's magazine is blaming the drastic drop in the number of nuns worldwide in part on their wretched working conditions and the sexual abuse and abuses of power...
January 23, 2020
Bulgarian authorities on Thursday charged three Russian nationals with the attempted murder of the owner of a Bulgarian arms factory and two other people. The three unnamed Russians are accused...
January 23, 2020
A couple of hundred people joined a protest Thursday organized by Puerto Rico singer René Pérez of Calle 13 fame in a demonstration reminiscent of those that ousted the island's...
January 23, 2020
The presidents of France and Germany warned of rising anti-Semitism. Israeli and American leaders lashed out at Iran. Russia's president took a swipe at eastern European members of NATO. The...
January 23, 2020
Greek authorities say they found more than a ton of processed cannabis camouflaged among a shipment of date paste headed by sea from Lebanon to Libya, police said Thursday. A...
January 23, 2020
A former midfielder for Colombia's national soccer team was extradited on Thursday to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. Prosecutors in Texas accuse John Viafara of conspiring with...
January 23, 2020
Government inaction over the rising number of assassinations targeting anti-government demonstrators and supporters is stirring fear and resentment, activists said Thursday. Iraqi security forces, meanwhile, fired tear gas to disperse...
January 23, 2020
A former Guatemalan economy minister was on the run again after hiding out for 24 hours in the home of Colombia's ambassador to the country, authorities said Thursday. Acisclo Valladares...
January 23, 2020
The United States has not seen signs that Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro is willing to allow free elections to resolve the political crisis in that country, and “time is short”...
January 23, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with el Nuevo / Miami Herald reporter, Nora Gamez Torres, to discuss Venezuela and Cuba policy in Miami on Thursday, January 23, 2020....
January 23, 2020
A viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds of people is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said Thursday. WHO issued its evaluation after Chinese...
January 23, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benny Gantz have been invited to Washington next week to discuss the "prospect of peace"...
January 23, 2020
Cuba's state television has shown four persons arrested as alleged members of Clandestinos, a dissident group that has been pouring pig's blood on government propaganda and monuments. … Click to...
January 23, 2020
At least 13 people have died in flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains in Madagascar this week, authorities said Thursday, with the military deployed to help evacuate people at...
January 23, 2020
A Greek high court on Thursday rejected Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik's final appeal against his extradition to France, ending a more than two-year legal tug-of-war between three countries...
January 23, 2020
A high-level delegation of Muslim religious leaders visited Auschwitz on Thursday along with a Jewish group in what organizers called “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation" to visit the site...
January 23, 2020
Pressured by threats from President Trump, Mexico beefed up security on its border with Guatemala. We witnessed a confrontation with the first migrant caravan of 2020. … Click to Continue...
January 23, 2020
Construction crews began leveling homes deemed too close to the airport in Ivory Coast's commercial capital on Thursday, part of a crackdown on informal settlements after a teenage boy died...
January 23, 2020
Researchers say they've mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, 3D printing and an electronic larynx. In a paper...
January 23, 2020
A rooster outfitted with razor-sharp blades for an upcoming cockfight killed its owner on the way to an illegal match in India, CNN reports. Police say Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao died...
January 23, 2020
The ex-companion of Norway's former justice minister whose home was targeted with vandalism and small fires in 2018 and 2019, was Thursday charged in the case. The prosecutor's office says...
January 23, 2020
Locusts by the millions are nibbling their way across a large part of Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. Is this another effect of...
January 23, 2020
A calamitous storm has killed at least 11 people in Spain and left five others missing, as well as causing rivers to overflow their banks and contaminating vast agricultural areas...
January 23, 2020
The complex extradition case designed to determine whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges will take longer than expected. District Judge Vanessa...
January 23, 2020
A global network of financial intelligence units has readmitted the Holy See after a two-month suspension sparked by a Vatican police raid on the Vatican's financial watchdog agency. The Holy...
