Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos.
The 19-year-old's family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday. Hours earlier, the US State Department told the media that an (...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping declared on Friday that attempts to block economic cooperation and disrupt global interdependence are nothing more than "backpedaling."
Xi made these comments during his speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (...)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has called for accelerated mass production of exploding drones designed to crash into targets, state media said on Friday.
Kim said the development of the weapons in the country was going well, and stressed the need (...)
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto called for collaboration, rather than confrontation, with China, emphasizing peace and prosperity following the signing of $10 billion in new deals at a business forum in Beijing on Sunday.
Subianto, in his (...)
Archeologists have found the remains of two medieval cities in the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan, a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk Road.
Known for the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West, (...)
A court in Peru has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in jail for corruption and money-laundering.
Prosecutors say he took $35m (£27m) in bribes from a Brazilian construction company which was awarded a contract (...)
Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, who was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption, has died aged 86, his daughter has confirmed.
Fujimori governed Peru between 1990 and 2000 before being forced from office amid allegations of (...)
Wanted Peruvian gang leader Gianfranco Torres-Navarro has been arrested in the US, officials say.
Torres-Navarro, 38, was detained in New York state after entering the country illegally at the Texas-Mexico border, a statement from the Immigration (...)
Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at people protesting Sunday's disputed election result.
Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains (...)
At least 29 people are dead in Peru after a bus plummeted over 650 feet into a ravine on Tuesday while traveling from the capital Lima to the southern city of Ayacucho, authorities said.
Search and rescue operations are underway, the country's (...)
By Ana María Roura, Daniel Wittenbeg & Blanca Moncada
GUAYAQUIL — Paul has been in a gang for around half his life, since he was 15.
"Things are dangerous right now. Death can come from anywhere," Paul tells us. Small, skinny and about 30 years old, (...)
A "sophisticated Internet fraud syndicate" has been uncovered in Zambia, leading to the arrest of 77 people, including 22 Chinese nationals.
It was a "significant breakthrough in the fight against cybercrime", the authorities said after a (...)
Police in Peru have raided President Dina Boluarte's home as part of a corruption inquiry dubbed "Rolexgate".
Authorities were searching for more than a dozen Rolex watches President Boluarte had allegedly not declared.
The investigation began after (...)
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.
The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.
The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an "internal armed conflict" in the country, ordering security forces to "neutralize" several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation.
The decree came shortly (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a state of emergency for the South American nation after a notorious gang leader escaped from prison, heightening security fears as authorities struggle to control the bloodshed of a bloody (...)
In one corner: Pope Francis, who insists on a merciful Catholic Church open to everyone, a "field hospital" ready to bind up the wounds of a suffering humanity. In the other corner: a small but vocal minority that has set itself against the Pontiff (...)
Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison on Wednesday ahead of the completion of his sentence for authorizing the operation of a death squad in his country, according to court documents and images of the ailing ex-leader (...)
"They can smell us," said Dr. Clare Strode.
She is carefully carrying a mesh cage of mosquitoes across her lab in Lancashire, north-west England. To be more precise, these are Aedes aegypti, one of two species known to carry and transmit the dengue (...)
An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its ancestral homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war.
An Ecuadorian appeals court backed the Siekopai nation's claim over (...)
SAN JOSE — Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica held on Wednesday a first round of political consultations.
The first round of the political consultations was held in the Costa Rican capital San Jose during a meeting between Saudi Arabia's Vice Foreign (...)
US actors' union Sag-Aftra says it has agreed a tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end a months-long strike.
Sag-Aftra reached agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers (AMPTP) in a unanimous vote, ending the 118-day (...)
A British model and TikToker has been jailed for nearly seven years in Peru after he was caught trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
Modou Adams was stopped at the Jorge Chávez International Airport on 30 September with 2.9kg (6.4lb) of (...)
Businessman Daniel Noboa is to become the youngest president in Ecuador's history, at 35 years old.
Noboa won Sunday's election with 52.3% of the vote, ahead of Luisa González's 47.7%. She conceded defeat and congratulated her rival.
The (...)
Ecuadoreans are voting in the run-off of a presidential election that has been overshadowed by a crime wave which has turned the country into one of the most violent in the region.
The first round of the election was held just days after (...)
