At least 11 people, including two children, were killed on Tuesday when a fuel truck exploded near a highway, Ugandan police said. The truck overturned after a crash and later…
Brazil’s Federal Police found 1.2 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a container bound for Spain at the port of Santos on Monday. The drugs were hidden in a shipment of…
At least six people have died after Hurricane Oscar hit eastern Cuba, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said yesterday (Monday), as most of the island continued to suffer power cuts for…
A court in Lima on Monday sentenced former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, 78, to more than 20 years in prison for corruption and money laundering in the Odebrecht scandal. Toledo,…
China’s military began live-fire exercises near Taiwan this morning (Tuesday), continuing its pressure on the island, whose authorities have said they are closely monitoring this ‘threat’ to regional stability. In…
French President Emmanuel Macron will pay a state visit to Morocco from 28 to 30 October, the Moroccan Royal Court announced on Monday. The visit reflects the depth of bilateral…
President-elect Kais Saied was sworn in on Monday in a plenary session at the Bardo Palace in the capital in front of the Council of People’s Representatives and the National…
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced on Monday that it has cut interest rates for the second time in a month, as part of efforts to stimulate the slowing…
The 16th BRICS Summit kicked off in Kazan, Russia, today, with the participation of about 40 countries, and the main theme of the summit is ‘Strengthening Multilateralism for Fair Global…
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck an island in eastern Indonesia on Monday, but there were no reports of damage, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The…