US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns for its staff in the wake of a new national security
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Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary
Relatives of the victims of Brazil’s brutal two-decade dictatorship have voiced anger and dismay over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reported decision to block
Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Indigenous communities in Bolivia have objected to Colombia’s plans to recover the remains of an 18th-century galleon believed to be carrying gold, silver and emeralds
Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit
If the official photos are anything to go by, Emmanuel Macron’s three-day trip to Brazil has been more romantic getaway than international diplomacy. The French
Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’
Around the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that
45 dead as bus plunges from bridge into ravine in South Africa
An eight-year-old child was the sole survivor after a bus carrying 46 people fell 50 metres from a bridge in South Africa into a ravine
‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting
Labour is demanding answers over what the party said was “potentially serious impropriety” by Boris Johnson after it emerged that the former prime minister met
Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature
Lawmakers in Ontario will now be able to address the province’s legislature using Indigenous languages, in a “momentous change” that belatedly recognizes the “first languages”
‘Staggering’ rise in women with reproductive health issues near DRC cobalt mines – study
Women and girls living in cobalt-mining communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are reporting a “staggering” rise in serious reproductive health issues, including
‘It’s mission impossible’: fear grows in Kenya over plan to deploy police to Haiti
Haiti’s raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on