South America
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:47:00 GMTPartners want to sever all Cartes partnerships
Chilean business associates of disgraced former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés would be pushing to break up all commercial ties with the man declared as "significantly corrupt" by the US State Department last month.
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:30:00 GMTRushdie recovering slowly; repercussions jump worldwide
Author Salman Rushdie's son Zafar Sunday in a statement Sunday said in a statement Sunday that his father was still in critical condition after Friday's stabbing.
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:22:00 GMTMore US lawmakers land in Taiwan - what will China do?
Five US lawmakers landed in Taipei Sunday in yet another trip by Parliamentarians from that country after a recent visit headed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heated tensions with Beijing, which regard the island as a Chinese ro...
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:19:00 GMTCairo church fire leaves 41 dead, 55 injured
At least 41 people, 15 children among them, were killed Sunday at the Martyr Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo's working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in the Giza area. There were also reports of some 55 other people in...
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:18:00 GMTProspects not good for Rushdie after stabbing
Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie might lose an eye and his liver has been damaged, his agent Andrew Wylie said after the author was stabbed in New York state earlier Friday. The novelist is reportedly on a ventilator and unabl...
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:06:00 GMTParaguayan VP to resign after joining US list of those "significantly corrupt"
Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez Friday announced in a radio interview that he would be resigning his job and stepping down from the presidential race after being added by the United States to the list of people "signi...
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:05:00 GMTFalklands Day celebrated in Parliament with Islands' flag flying at New Palace Yard
Following on instructions from the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the flag of the Falkland Islands in flying at New Palace Yard, to mark Falklands Day, when the first sighting of the Islands in 1592.
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:55:00 GMTArctic flights to shed light on sea ice and storm links
Scientists are flying research aircraft through the heart of Arctic storms this summer to better understand how weather systems are affecting polar sea ice. Arctic cyclones are the main type of hazardous weather that affect the...
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:52:00 GMTConserving Damoy Hut, next to 'glacial skiway', Antarctica Historic Site and Monument
Damoy, a small wooden hut on a rocky outcrop in Antarctica will take centre stage in UK Antarctic Heritage Trust conservation efforts this coming season. The hut in Dorian Bay, along with the glacial ‘skiway’ on Damoy Point...
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:43:00 GMTTop-secret documents found at Trump's mansion
Top secret documents were retrieved by the FBI from former US President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida, it was reported Friday as the seal of secrecy was lifted.