Disapproval of Bolsonaro presidency jumps after Amazon crisis: poll
Brazilians saying that President Jair Bolsonaro is doing a “bad or terrible” job rose to 38% from 33% previously, in the first major poll since...
Hong Kong neighborhoods echo with late night cries for freedom
Every night at 10 p.m., Hong Kong neighborhoods and university dorms echo with pro-democracy and anti-government chants, the latest form of protest in the Chinese-ruled...
Tunisian candidates start their presidential campaigns
Tunisian presidential candidates began campaigning on Monday for the Sept. 15 election against a backdrop of economic troubles and a militant shooting that underlined the...
Indonesian students invent pinger to find quake victims
It’s the size of a credit card and about as slim....
U.S. special envoy shows draft deal with Taliban to Afghan president
The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan showed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday the draft of an agreement between the United States and the Taliban...
Hong Kong students rally peacefully after weekend violence
Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students boycotted class and rallied peacefully for democracy on Monday, the latest acts of defiance in an anti-government...
Hurricane Dorian lashes Bahamas, menaces east U.S. coast
Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas early on Monday, peeling off roofs, toppling cars and snapping power lines as rising floodwater threatened to engulf houses....
Georgian PM Bakhtadze announces resignation
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze announced his resignation on Monday after little more than a year in the job, saying that he had accomplished what...
Hong Kong students rally peacefully after weekend of protest violence
Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students boycotted class and rallied peacefully for democracy on Monday, the latest acts of defiance in an anti-government...
Hurricane Dorian lashes Bahamas, a million evacuated along U.S. east coast
Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamian islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama early on Monday, peeling off roofs, toppling cars and snapping power lines as...
