-- 2018-10-13 10:45:37
The Venezuelan government says it has released a political activist who has been held without trial since 2014. Lorent Saleh was arrested in September 2014, accused of links to Colombian paramilitari...
-- 2018-10-12 18:42:22
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said the administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to assassinate him, as relations strain between the ideologically opposed nations. Maduro, a for...
-- 2018-10-12 11:52:52
At least 12 people have died in a mudslide in Colombia that swept through many mountainside homes, local disaster officials say. Officials said the slide occurred at about 2:00am Thursday in the cent...
BBC 2018-10-12 10:28:09
Hurricane Michael left "unimaginable destruction" as it ploughed into coastal areas of Florida, the state's governor, Rick Scott, says. "So many lives have been changed forever," he said. "So many fa...
-- 2018-10-11 18:37:21
The third-strongest storm in recorded history to hit the mainland US has battered north-west Florida, flooding beach towns and snapping trees. Rescue services are waiting for daylight to assess the f...
Reuters 2018-10-11 14:26:08
US President Donald Trump increased pressure on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to provide information on what happened to missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and said he wanted to get to the bottom of...
-- 2018-10-11 13:03:23
The US justice department has announced charges of economic espionage against a suspected Chinese intelligence officer. Officials say Yanjun Xu tried to steal trade secrets from US aviation and aeros...
-- 2018-10-10 11:57:28
A court in Guatemala has sentenced the former vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, to 15 years and six months in jail for her role in what became known as the ‘Magic Water’ scandal. Prosecuto...
-- 2018-10-09 20:30:28
US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has resigned from her role, the latest departure from US President Donald Trump's national security circle, According to multiple reports, US President...
-- 2018-10-09 11:16:23
Protesters in Venezuela have accused the government of murdering a jailed opposition lawmaker, who the authorities say killed himself. Crowds were calling for justice at a rally outside the Sebin int...
-- 2018-10-09 10:08:06
An earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday killed 15 people, injured another 300 and destroyed 40 houses, Jerry Chandler, head of the Caribbean country’s civil protection agency, said on Monday...
-- 2018-10-08 12:11:20
Torrential rain in Central America that caused floods and landslides have killed 12 people in just a few days, rescue and emergency authorities across the region said on Sunday. Heavy rains that bega...
Reuters 2018-10-08 10:01:03
At least twenty people were killed when a stretch limousine crashed into another vehicle and pedestrians in the parking lot of a store in rural upstate New York, in what federal authorities on Sunday...
Reuters 2018-10-07 11:57:45
An earthquake that struck off the northern coast of Haiti late on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured more than a hundred when several buildings collapsed in the impoverished Caribbean coun...
-- 2018-10-07 11:31:00
Brazilians will vote on Sunday in a polarised presidential race that could result in the election of a far-right former Army captain, whose praise of past dictatorships enrages critics but whose promi...
-- 2018-10-07 10:36:23
The Republican-controlled US Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, dismissing anger over accusations of sexual misconduct against him and delivering a major victory to Pre...
-- 2018-10-06 15:59:13
Torrential rains drenching the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, have caused considerable damage to many homes and led to the disappearance of one person, Honduran authorities reported on Friday. Accord...
-- 2018-10-05 17:25:05
In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon. Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the cases of military history...
-- 2018-10-04 11:56:29
Seven US law enforcement officers have been shot, one of them fatally, in an incident in South Carolina, officials say. Police in the city of Florence had been responding to a call for help from the...
-- 2018-10-03 14:30:57
The United States is expected to announce in the coming days that it will use offensive and defensive cyber capabilities on behalf of NATO if asked, a senior Pentagon official said, amid concerns abou...
-- 2018-10-03 13:10:51
President Donald Trump made an undiplomatic remark about close ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, saying he warned Saudi Arabia’s King Salman he would not last in power “for two weeks” wi...
-- 2018-10-01 21:17:06
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Myanmar's government to take concrete steps to investigate human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims, reports Reuters. The US Secretary of State also asked...
-- 2018-10-01 11:34:28
At least seven people were shot dead and four were wounded in a prison riot in Guatemala, according to local authorities, who said they had wrested back control. The riot spun out of a brawl among pr...
-- 2018-09-30 14:04:03
Tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets of Brazil to protest against the far-right presidential election front-runner Jair Bolsonaro. The words Ele Nao (not him) were seen on stickers an...
-- 2018-09-30 13:25:37
FBI agents investigating US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have contacted the second woman to accuse him of sexual misconduct, her attorney said on Saturday. The announcement by Deborah Ramire...
-- 2018-09-29 11:04:26
President Donald Trump, under intense pressure from moderates in his own party over his Supreme Court nominee, on Friday ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Brett K...
-- 2018-09-28 15:57:46
Fighting to salvage his US Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh angrily denied on Thursday a university professor’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago in a day of dramat...
-- 2018-09-27 11:53:38
A disgraced former state governor from Mexico’s ruling party was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday for money laundering and links to organised crime in a case that public auditors s...
-- 2018-09-26 11:34:15
A Chinese man has been arrested for allegedly spying on US engineers and scientists on behalf of Beijing, US prosecutors say. Ji Chaoqun, 27, was arrested in Chicago and charged with acting as an ill...
-- 2018-09-26 10:13:53
US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesti...
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