Iranian vice president’s Nicaragua visit spurs outrage in Latin America
LIMA, Peru/SAO PAOLO, Brazil: The attendance of an Iranian vice president at the inaugural ceremony of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has spurred outrage among...
Sweden to withdraw from French-led special forces mission in Mali
BREST: Sweden has decided to withdraw its troops this year from a European special forces mission to the Sahel region, and will review its...
Australian firm fires employee for leak of TV anchors’ Djokovic rant
An Australia-based media technology company has fired an employee accused of leaking a video of two television presenters privately criticizing tennis player Novak Djokovic,...
Masks rules get tighter in Europe in winter’s COVID-19 wave
ROME: To mask or not to mask is a question Italy settled early in the COVID-19 outbreak with a vigorous "yes." Now the onetime...
Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for Hindu festival, defying COVID-19 surge
PRAYAGRAJ, India: Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers gathered on the banks of India's Ganges river on Friday for a holy bathe despite a...
South Korea slightly eases distancing but warns of omicron surge
SEOUL: South Korea will slightly ease its coronavirus gathering restrictions starting next week but continue to maintain a 9 p.m. curfew on restaurants and...
North Korea fires ‘unidentified projectile’: South’s military
SEOUL: North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile, South Korea's military said Friday, the nuclear-armed country's third suspected weapons test in just over a...
India reports 264,202 new coronavirus infections in past 24 hours
MUMBAI: India reported 264,202 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking its total tally to 36.58 million, the federal health...
Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s bid for freedom rejected
SACRAMENTO, California: Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole Thursday by California's governor, who said the killer...
Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains
SAO PAOLO: The medals were billed as the most sustainable ever produced.
To match the festive spirit of South America's first Olympics, officials from Brazil,...