World / Americas

Nancy Pelosi gets rock star treatment at Clive Davis gala 10 Feb 2019 - 04:46 pm

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.: The audience at Clive Davis' white-hot gala included Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but it was House...

Accident involving UN armored vehicle kills four in Haiti 10 Feb 2019 - 09:40 am

Port-au-Prince: A traffic accident involving a United Nations armored vehicle killed four people and injured nine in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, according to police...

Pelosi shows pragmatic streak in pursuit of border deal 09 Feb 2019 - 07:46 pm

WASHINGTON: Republicans have vilified Nancy Pelosi for years as a San Francisco liberal and now they're trying to portray her as a captive...

Ten players killed as fire sweeps through Flamengo lodging in Rio 09 Feb 2019 - 01:39 pm

Rio De Janeiro: Fire swept through an unlicensed lodging at the training centre of Rio de Janeiro soccer club Flamengo on Friday, killing...

Trump's counselor claims woman assaulted her at restaurant 08 Feb 2019 - 10:08 pm

COLLEGE PARK, Md.: A Maryland woman faces charges that she assaulted White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in front of her teenage daughter during...

Brazil police operation in Rio favela leaves 13 dead 08 Feb 2019 - 10:08 pm

Rio de Janeiro: An operation by Brazilian military police in Rio de Janeiro on Friday left at least 13 people dead in a...

US officer at border shoots driver going to Mexico 08 Feb 2019 - 09:00 pm

NOGALES: A Customs and Border Protection officer shot and wounded a driver who was trying to enter Mexico at a crossing in Arizona,...

National Enquirer owner defends reporting on Amazon's Bezos 08 Feb 2019 - 07:52 pm

WASHINGTON: The owner of U.S. tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer pushed back on Friday against accusations of "extortion and blackmail" from Amazon.com Inc...

UN: US force-feeding immigrants may breach torture agreement 08 Feb 2019 - 12:58 am

The force-feeding of immigrant detainees inside a Texas detention facility could violate the U.N. Convention Against Torture, the Geneva-based United Nations human rights...

EU, Latin American ministers call for elections to avoid Venezuela chaos 08 Feb 2019 - 12:57 am

Montevideo: Ministers from more than a dozen European and Latin American countries issued a united call Thursday for "free, transparent and credible presidential...

Chile's former army chief detained for torture under Pinochet 07 Feb 2019 - 10:09 pm

Santiago: Police in Chile arrested a former army chief Thursday on charges of torturing 24 people in 1973, shortly after the coup that...

At least six dead in Brazil after powerful storm lashes Rio de Janeiro 07 Feb 2019 - 07:43 pm

RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second-largest city, awoke to scenes of chaos on Thursday after thrashing wind and rain whipped through...

Flames from San Francisco gas explosion damage 5 buildings 07 Feb 2019 - 06:13 pm

SAN FRANCISCO: A gas explosion in San Francisco shot a tower of flames into the sky and burned five buildings including one of...

Families' anguish still raw as Genoa bridge demolition to begin 07 Feb 2019 - 06:13 pm

Genoa, Italy: Egle Possetti has to avert her eyes when she drives past the remains of the road bridge in Genoa as she...

Photographer drugged, raped young models 07 Feb 2019 - 06:13 pm

MCMINNVILLE: A professional photographer drugged and sexually assaulted young models or aspiring models he worked with in Oregon and California, federal and state...

Snooze of the Union: (Joshua) Trump's power nap goes viral 07 Feb 2019 - 05:24 pm

Washington: Between the late bedtimes and early morning tweets the leader of the free world is renowned for needing just four hours' sleep...

Generation Guaido: a threat to Chavez-style power in Venezuela 07 Feb 2019 - 11:36 am

Caracas, More than a decade ago, university students in Venezuela burst onto the political scene by rekindling opposition to then leader Hugo Chavez...