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Brazil ex-president Lula freed from jail

Brazil ex-president Lula freed from jail

-- 2019-11-09 11:34:00

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been freed after more than 18 months in prison. The left-wing former leader, known as Lula, was greeted with rapturous applause from cr...

Judge orders Trump to pay $2m for misusing charity foundation

Judge orders Trump to pay $2m for misusing charity foundation

-- 2019-11-08 10:31:40

A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2m (£1.6m) for misusing funds from his charity to finance his 2016 political campaign. The Donald J Trump Foundation closed down in 2...

US to continue talks with countries to end wildlife trafficking

US to continue talks with countries to end wildlife trafficking

-- 2019-11-07 18:56:13

The United States has said it looks forward to continuing dialogue with both ‘focus countries and countries of concern’ to thwart transnational organised crime engaged in wildlife traffick...

Five of a family dead following attack in Mexico

Five of a family dead following attack in Mexico

-- 2019-11-05 13:22:22

At least five members of a family in northern Mexico, including two infants, were killed on Monday in an attack by unknown gunmen, a government source and local media said, in the latest case of grisl...

US notifies UN of its withdrawal from Paris climate accord

US notifies UN of its withdrawal from Paris climate accord

BBC 2019-11-05 12:00:05

The United States has formally notified the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The notification begins a one-year process of exiting the global climate change accor...

Iranians chant ‘Death to America’ to mark US embassy seizure

Iranians chant ‘Death to America’ to mark US embassy seizure

-- 2019-11-04 13:47:31

Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” near the old US embassy on Monday, the 40th anniversary on the seizure of the mission and a day after Iran’s supreme leader vowed it...

Trump threatens to pull California wildfire funding

Trump threatens to pull California wildfire funding

-- 2019-11-04 10:24:20

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding for the wildfires sweeping California, in a Twitter spat with the state's governor. Nearly 100,000 acres have been destroyed by wildfir...

Illegal loggers kill Amazon warrior

Illegal loggers kill Amazon warrior

-- 2019-11-03 22:18:18

Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil sa...

Airbnb bans ‘party houses’ after five die in Halloween shooting

Airbnb bans ‘party houses’ after five die in Halloween shooting

-- 2019-11-03 11:26:28

Airbnb has said it will ban "party houses" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead. CEO Brian Chesky said in a tweet the company would take steps t...

Societies pay price when journalists targeted: UN chief

Societies pay price when journalists targeted: UN chief

-- 2019-11-02 12:35:15

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said societies as a whole pay a price when journalists are targeted. Almost 90 per cent of those responsible for the killing of 1,109 journalists around the...

Four shot dead at Halloween party in US

Four shot dead at Halloween party in US

-- 2019-11-02 11:40:42

Four people were shot dead at a crowded Halloween costume party at a house in Orinda in Northern California in the US, the county sheriff’s office said on Friday. The shooting took place around...

US House endorses Trump impeachment probe

US House endorses Trump impeachment probe

-- 2019-11-01 10:19:55

A deeply divided US House of Representatives took a major step on Thursday in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump when lawmakers approved rules for the next, more public, stage in the Democra...

Trump impeachment: House votes to formalise inquiry

Trump impeachment: House votes to formalise inquiry

-- 2019-10-31 22:51:10

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The measure detailed how the inquiry will move into a more pub...

US releases Baghdadi raid video

US releases Baghdadi raid video

-- 2019-10-31 13:48:10

The Pentagon on Wednesday released its first images from last weekend’s commando raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warned the militant group ma...

Five Colombian indigenous guards killed, military says

Five Colombian indigenous guards killed, military says

-- 2019-10-30 14:26:07

Five Colombian indigenous guards, tasked with protecting the country’s tribal reservations, were killed in a confrontation, possibly with dissident rebel fighters on Tuesday, the military said....

Democrats to vote Thursday to make Trump impeachment probe public

Democrats to vote Thursday to make Trump impeachment probe public

-- 2019-10-30 00:38:32

Democrats in Congress, answering Republican complaints that their impeachment investigation of US President Donald Trump is being conducted in secret, plan a vote on Thursday on how to make their inqu...

IS leader al-Baghdadi's remains buried at sea

IS leader al-Baghdadi's remains buried at sea

-- 2019-10-29 12:58:55

The Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's remains were buried at sea following his death in a US military raid, Xinhua reported on Tuesday citing US media. The United States gave al-Baghda...

Centre-left Alberto Fernández wins Argentina election

Centre-left Alberto Fernández wins Argentina election

-- 2019-10-28 17:57:47

Centre-left opposition candidate Alberto Fernández has been elected president of Argentina in a vote dominated by economic concerns. Mr Fernández secured more than the 45 per cent of th...

Six die in presidential helicopter crash in Colombia

Six die in presidential helicopter crash in Colombia

-- 2019-10-28 13:23:29

A helicopter, which was part of the presidential fleet, crashed in a countryside in central Colombia's Cundinamarca department, killing all the six crew members, the Colombian Air Force (FAC) has said...

Over 40 skulls found in den of Mexico cartel suspects

Over 40 skulls found in den of Mexico cartel suspects

-- 2019-10-28 11:04:35

Police found more than 40 skulls, dozens of bones and a fetus in a glass jar next to an altar in the den of suspected drug traffickers in Mexico City during a raid this week, authorities said on Sunda...

Trump announces death of 'Islamic State' leader Baghdadi

Trump announces death of 'Islamic State' leader Baghdadi

Reuters 2019-10-27 20:14:52

US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that 'Islamic State' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during an overnight raid led by US military forces in Syria. The announcement seems to be a 'major...

50,000 more evacuated due to growing wild fire in northern California

50,000 more evacuated due to growing wild fire in northern California

Xinhua 2019-10-27 17:17:58

Evacuation orders were issued Saturday morning for 50,000 residents for the entire towns of Healdsburg and Windsor in northern California, as the growing Kincade Fire is expected to move toward there....

Chile president dismisses whole cabinet after protests

Chile president dismisses whole cabinet after protests

-- 2019-10-27 10:54:22

Chile's President Sebastian Piñera has dismissed his whole cabinet in order to form a new government and introduce social reforms demanded by protesters. "I have put all my ministers on notice...

Mexican forest fires leave three dead

Mexican forest fires leave three dead

-- 2019-10-26 11:54:08

Three people were killed and hundreds evacuated from their homes as fires spread through forests in northern Mexico near the US border on Friday, officials said. A fire near the town of Tecate, about...

US judge validates Trump impeachment inquiry

US judge validates Trump impeachment inquiry

-- 2019-10-26 10:38:11

A US judge on Friday validated the legality of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and ordered his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of former special co...

Five die in Mexico plane crash

Five die in Mexico plane crash

-- 2019-10-24 12:24:28

At least five people died after a small plane crashed Wednesday in Las Juntas, a community in the Madero town, in Michoacan state of Mexico, local media reported. The state prosecutor told reporters...

Anger mounts over polls result confusion in Bolivia

Anger mounts over polls result confusion in Bolivia

-- 2019-10-23 00:34:11

Violent protests have erupted in at least nine cities in Bolivia amid ongoing confusion about the result of Sunday's presidential election, reports BBC. Suspicion arose among opponents of the incumbe...

Plane crashes in Brazilian street, killing three

Plane crashes in Brazilian street, killing three

-- 2019-10-22 11:27:17

A small plane crashed on a street shortly after takeoff in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte on Monday, killing at least three people, a firefighter on the scene told Reuters news agency. The sing...

Canada's Trudeau set to form government again

Canada's Trudeau set to form government again

Reuters 2019-10-22 10:36:01

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held on to his job in Monday’s election, securing his spot as one of the world’s few high-profile progressive leaders, but tarnished by scandal and w...

Five dead after looters torch garment factory amid Chile protests

Five dead after looters torch garment factory amid Chile protests

-- 2019-10-21 11:19:28

Five people have died after a garment factory was set ablaze by looters near Chile's capital Santiago amid a wave of violent protests. The military and police used tear gas and water cannon against p...