2021 Audi A3 sedan all set to hit markets

After the hatchback version of A3 unveiled last year in Europe, Audi is again in the limelight with the launch of its 2021 Audi...

Mexican children take up arms in fight against drug gangs

With baseball caps and scarves covering their faces, only their serious eyes are visible as a dozen children stand to attention, rifles by their...

Here is why part of the Amazon is burning

AFP | The dramatic scale of this year's fires is the result of a significant acceleration of deforestation for the lumber industry, for agriculture or...

Amazon rainforest being cut down at record pace under Bolsonaro

News Desk | In July, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest was more than twice as much as it has ever been before....

Effort to remove Maduro: Trump freezes Venezuelan government assets

News Desk | Inheriting a complex economic and political landscape from the enigmatic Hugo Chavez, the Maduro government has been plagued by a vast set...

Brazil leading plastic waste producer doing “Nothing” to recycle it

AFP | Standing among sacks of used supermarket shopping bags, soft drink bottles, and detergent containers, Evelin Marcele is scornful of Brazil's efforts to recycle...

Venezuela to prosecute lawmakers who backed failed uprising

AFP | Venezuela will prosecute seven lawmakers who backed last week's failed uprising orchestrated by opposition leader Juan Guaido, the country's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday,...

US, Russia butt heads over Venezuela

AFP | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Sunday for Russia to get out of Venezuela, while his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, called on...

Venezuela: Indigenous people are forgotten victims of crisis

Natalia Garcia Bonet | It appeared to be a confrontation between humanitarianism and military force. In February, the Venezuelan government placed troops along the country’s...

Trump hails ‘very positive’ Venezuela talks with Putin

AFP | President Donald Trump said he held "very positive" talks Friday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the crisis in oil-rich Venezuela, where...

One shot dead, at least 27 hurt in Venezuela May Day clashes

AFP | A woman was shot dead and more than two dozen people were injured during May Day clashes between opposition supporters and Venezuela's armed...

Ex-Venezuelan general arrested in Spain on US warrant

AFP | Former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal, head of military intelligence under Hugo Chavez, was arrested Friday in Madrid on a US warrant for cocaine...