Coup plotters, in an antidemocratic act against the President of Brazil Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), invaded and climbed the ramp of the National Congress, this Sunday afternoon (January 8).
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Cubans approved a sweeping family law code that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt and promote equal sharing of domestic rights and responsibilities between men and women.
Romanian 24 hour news channel Antena 3 will re-launch on September 27 with new programming, state of the art studios and more international news coverage courtesy of its partnership with CNN.
Queen Elizabeth II passed away at age 96 in her Scottish estate, leaving her people with a historical 70-year reign. Crowds now gather outside Buckingham Palace to mourn the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch.
On Thursday, Buckingham Palace released a statement outlining that the “Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision.”
The powerful blast, caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate in a port warehouse, occurred on 4 August 2020 and killed more than 200 people while decimating a vast swath of the Lebanese capital.
Russia is planning to pull out of the International Space Station after 2024, ending its decades-long partnership with NASA at the orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief said on Tuesday.
An emergency committee from the World Health Organization (WHO) has named the monkeypox outbreak, currently spreading in non-endemic countries, a “public health emergency of international concern” with over 16,000 cases found in 75 countries, including five deaths.
The committee first met last month but decided against declaring it a public health emergency of international concern.
Summer heat waves have struck multiple countries across Europe, with temperatures expected to soar above 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit).
Protesters have breached the gates to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office following a standoff with armed police.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched on Tuesday the ratification process for Sweden and Finland’s membership, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed.
Three people have died and several were injured in a shooting at a mall in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sunday.
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck in Paktika and Khost provinces in Afghanistan early Wednesday morning local time.
In its latest update on the world of work, International Labour Organization Director-General Guy Ryder said that although there had been “tentative signs of recovery in the final months of last year, with global employment returning to higher levels in industrialised nations”, rising food and fuel prices and financial turbulence have destabilised the job market.
A national database has listed all those who’ve been reported missing in the country since 1964, and the tally continues to climb, amid ongoing drug gang violence and a lack of effective investigations.
