Brazil mining dam collapse hits indigenous water supply
AFP | Muddy waste from a ruptured dam at a mine in Brazil's southeast is reaching an indigenous community in the region, contaminating its water...
58 dead as firefighters search mud on third day after Brazil dam collapse
AFP | Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that...
Trump-Imran meeting possible after Afghan talks: Fawad
News Analysis | Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that Pakistan’s role in bringing the Taliban to the negotiation table has been appreciated by US...
Apparent breakthrough in Afghan peace talks
Asif Haroon Raja | By the time Barak Obama completed his second term in office, the tenacious battle between the ISAF-ANSF and the Taliban...
Is a slowdown in the Chinese Economy sufficient to end the US-China Trade War?
News Analysis | The World Economic Forum, held in the snow-packed Swiss town of Davos, contemplated various powerful questions for the future. Christine Lagarde, the...
Trump climbs down in wall row, Congress passes bill ending shutdown
AFP | President Donald Trump on Friday brought a temporary end to the longest government shutdown in US history while dropping his previous insistence on...
Freed from Pakistan’s custody: Mullah Baradar to lead Taliban in talks with U.S
News Analysis | Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban movement, will be spearheading the ongoing dialogue process for his side against the United...
Trump faces unfamiliar jolt in US govt shutdown row: losing
AFP | Donald Trump loves to make the pistol gesture when pronouncing his "You're fired" catchphrase. But in the tussle with Democrats over the longest...
US delays returning asylum seekers to Mexico
AFP | The United States has delayed its plan to send asylum seekers back to Mexico while their claims are processed, as the Mexican government...
Mexico offers to host Venezuela rivals for crisis talks
AFP | Mexico is prepared to host President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival, self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, for talks to resolve Venezuela's spiraling...
Brazil first lady’s accounts to be probed in expanding payments scandal
AFP | Brazilian authorities are to scrutinize the bank accounts of First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro as part of a growing scandal over suspect payments involving...
Fears rise for 150 missing in Brazil dam disaster; 7 bodies recovered
AFP | Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday to locate around 150 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil, but the...