Israel’s announcement that it will illegally build thousands of homes in a highly controversial development in the occupied West Bank – in a move Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted “buries the idea... Read more »
President Javier Milei let rip with a tirade of insults, bold claims and hyperbole on Thursday as he called on voters in Buenos Aires Province to back his La Libertad Avanza party... Read more »
Brazilian film-maker Walter Salles had a huge breakthrough success with this big-hearted road movie in 1998. It is a prize-garlanded and Oscar-nominated film that made a serious player of its director and... Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. [AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais] Since US President... Read more »
After several minutes of smoke swirling in crimson-lit darkness, a voice announces: “Dracula – a Victorian melodrama” as the curtain goes up and that is exactly what follows. That is the wonder... Read more »
Violence against children in Brazilian Amazon worse than elsewhere in the country Thursday, August 14th 2025 – 21:56 UTC
According to the Health Ministry, 94 violent deaths of indigenous children... Read more »
United States President Donald Trump has marked the 90th anniversary of Social Security with a defence of his administration’s policies toward the programme — and attacks on his Democratic rivals. On Thursday,... Read more »
A multi-millionaire Burger King franchise owner, a former IBM engineer and a coca growers’ leader are among eight candidates vying to be president of Bolivia in elections starting Sunday. Right-wing ex-president Jorge... Read more »
(Analysis) In mid-August 2025, the United States widened its campaign against Brazil’s government, moving from sanctioning members of the judiciary to targeting officials in the health sector. On August 13, U.S. Secretary... Read more »
A USPS Letter Carrier [AP Photo/Seth Perlman] Workers for the US Postal Service (USPS) have been ordered to return to a previously flooded and filthy building in Irvington, New Jersey. Pictures of... Read more »