Ex-Ecuador president Correa denies planning coup attempt from exile
Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa denied on Tuesday he was orchestrating a coup against the government from his self-imposed exile in Belgium, after being accused...
Protest-hit Ecuador seeks foreign mediation, relocates government
Ecuador’s government sought foreign mediation via the United Nations or the Catholic Church on Tuesday, after almost a week of anti-austerity protests that have forced...
Sudan has received half the $3 billion promised by Saudi Arabia and UAE
Sudan has received half of the $3 billion in aid promised by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in April and expects the remainder...
Scientists who revealed “strange and wonderful” universe win Nobel prize
The Nobel Prize for Physics is divided between a cosmologist for his insights into the birth of the universe, and two scientists who discovered the...
Writer Llosa roasts Peru’s ‘shameful’ Congress, backs president
Peruvian Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa praised centrist President Martin Vizcarra on Tuesday for dismissing the country’s right-wing opposition-dominated parliament and labeled its former...
Italian parliament votes to scrap hundreds of seats at next election
Italy’s parliament voted on Tuesday to cut the number of elected lawmakers by more than a third, in a reform championed by the anti-establishment 5-Star...
Mona Lisa’s smile a touch clearer through Louvre’s new protective glass
Visitors to the Louvre in Paris should have a clearer view of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” after the museum installed a new, more transparent...
Leading Turkish activist denies funding protests to overthrow government
A Turkish businessman and activist, whose trial over accusations he tried to overthrow the government has been criticized by Western countries, denied on Tuesday he...
Hundreds of arrests as London climate-change activists vow more protests
London police have made nearly 500 arrests as climate-change protesters, labelled “uncooperative crusties” by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, continue two weeks of civil disobedience to...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro suggests mystery oil slicks may have criminal root
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that mysterious oil slicks polluting northeastern beaches were likely to have criminal origins, without explaining further....