María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim The opposition leader battling to bring the curtain down on Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime has urged the Venezuelan strongman to accept that his exit … Read More
Protests have erupted in the Venezuelan capital Caracas against President Nicolás Maduro’s claim of victory in the country’s disputed election. Crowds of people have been making their way, by foot, to Miraflores – the presidential palace – in protest. Others … Read More
The last 4 junta camps in the gem-mining center fell on Wednesday, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army said. Insurgent forces in Myanmar’s Mandalay region have captured the gem-mining town of Mogoke from military junta forces, a Ta’ang National Liberation Army … Read More
BRASILIA, July 22 (Reuters) – Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 meet this week to seek consensus on economic policy ahead of the U.S. election, with plans to avoid discussion of the wars in Ukraine and … Read More
SALAR CENTENARIO, Argentina, July 10 (Reuters) – In a dusty plain in northern Argentina’s mountains, black tubes stretching two stories high fill a massive tank with salty brine sucked from deep below ground. The brine contains lithium, a silvery white … Read More
Canada has failed to hit domestic military spending goals and fallen short in funding new equipment, frustrating allies in the White House and around Europe. Canada has become an outlier among the 32-member NATO alliance in recent years, and it seems the country … Read More
The Vatican has excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, one of Pope Francis’s most virulent critics, after judging him guilty of splitting the Church, the dicastery in charge of doctrine said Friday. The 83-year-old ultra conservative, who has called in the … Read More
The mission is intended to combat the country’s rampant gang violence What happened Some 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission. The deployment is the first wave of an … Read More
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt against President Luis Arce, but he vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to stand … Read More
NAIROBI, June 25 (Reuters) – Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature on Tuesday, with at least five protesters killed, dozens wounded and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed legislation to raise … Read More