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...
Man versus condor: The king of the Andes under threat
AFP|By all accounts, Dasan and Illika should have died of poisoning. But they are back on their feet, poking their beaks through the bars...
Maduro vs. Guaido: Who is backing whom?
AFP |Venezuela has been receiving massive attention from the international community since National Assembly chief Juan Guaido declared himself acting interim president of Venezuela....
Brazilian TV news market to be shaken by launch of CNN Brazil
AFP |With the launch of CNN Brazil, Latin America's biggest TV market is set to be roiled by the entry of a powerful new...
China, Russia side with Maduro as US backs Venezuela challenger
AFP |The United States, Britain, and major South American nations recognized opposition chief Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim leader Thursday but China and Russia...
Venezuela accuses US of ordering coup, seeks ‘revision’ of ties
AFP |Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday accused Washington of ordering a coup against his government and called for a "total revision" of ties...
Israeli PM, Brazil’s next president hail budding ‘brotherhood’
AFP |Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Friday announced a nascent "brotherhood" between their countries that will boost economic,...
Brazil military’s central role in Rio security nearing end
AFP |The Brazilian military's central role in Rio de Janeiro state security is nearing its end, with a drop in some indicators of violence...
‘We’ve been forgotten’: Brazil’s Zika generation
AFP |When doctors told her that the six-month-old fetus she was carrying had severe brain damage caused by the Zika virus, Thamires Ferreira da Silva...
Key points from the Group of 20
AFP |G20 leaders on Saturday found the minimum common ground on the global economy at a summit in Buenos Aires with a closing communique...
Boeing jet crash-lands at Guyana airport, 10 injured
AFP |Ten people were injured in scenes described as "chaos" as a Boeing airliner carrying 126 people, most of them Canadians, crash-landed in Guyana's capital...
Brazilians opt for budget bulletproofing as economy tanks
AFP |Brazilians are as worried as ever about getting shot while driving but have less money in a stagnant economy to spend on protecting...
Growing army influence on Brazilian elections causes a stir
AFP |With an ex-army captain leading polls, a reserve general picked as his running mate, and a military chief sticking his nose into the...
Government cuts blamed for Brazil National Museum inferno
AFP |Brazilian officials on Monday blamed years of government cutbacks for an inferno that gutted the treasured National Museum, described by President Michel Temer...
Brazil’s first human, a ‘priceless’ loss from Rio’s museum fire
AFP |Brazil on Monday mourned the loss of the "first Brazilian," Luzia, after the 12,000-year-old fossil was destroyed in a raging fire that ripped...
Raging fire tears through prized Rio museum
AFP |A massive fire ripped through Rio de Janeiro's treasured National Museum, one of Brazil's oldest, in what the nation's president says is a...
A fire ravages the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, a cultural jewel of...
AFP |A huge fire devastated Sunday the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, a disaster described as "tragedy for culture", but no victim has...
TV ads critical to Brazil’s presidential race
AFP |A huge election in Brazil is little over a month away and voter Domingo Souza says he knows little about who's running for...
A Venezuelan family’s desperate journey
AFP |On foot, by bus, on the backs of juddering trucks, like tens of thousands of others they slogged for days along the Pan-American...
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A US cabinet member met Taiwan's leader Monday during the highest level visit from the United States since it switched diplomatic recognition from the...