Americas

The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement that would have shielded its wealthy Sackler family owners from lawsuits over their role in the ...

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to designate actress Marilyn Monroe’s former home as a historical landmark on Wednesday, preventing the house where the Hollywood legend died from ...

Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on Wednesday evening and a general was arrested after President Luis Arce slammed a “coup” attempt against the ...

For 90 minutes on Thursday night, U.S. President Joe Biden has the chance to show doubting Americans that, at age 81, he is capable of handling the rigors of another four-year ...

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will be ordered to spend decades in prison when a U.S. judge sentences him later on Wednesday for his conviction on drug and ...

Free speech organisations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him ...

Donald Trump made two speeches on Saturday, urging Christian supporters to go to the polls for him one last time and courting Black voters in Philadelphia by promising to fix ...

At least 30 people have died and thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes as storms and heavy rainfall continue to lash Central America, according to local officials, with the ...

Hezbollah’s “verbal attack” against Cyprus “is just beyond me”, the state department said on Thursday. “Why Hezbollah would attack a country in the middle of that important humanitarian role ...

TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance on Thursday urged a U.S. court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short video app in the United States ...

The convicted shooter who killed five people in a 2022 attack at a gay nightclub in Colorado, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and gun charges on Tuesday and received multiple ...

Artificial intelligence and US election have emerged as significant risks to businesses this year with an overwhelming 80 per cent of owners worried their insurance will not cover a specific loss, ...

Argentina’s Senate passed a sprawling bill on Wednesday that is key to libertarian President Javier Milei’s economic reform plans, while protesters set fires and clashed with police in ...

An Arizona man has been indicted on four counts of gun-trafficking crimes after federal prosecutors said an undercover sting operation revealed that he planned to kill Black people in a ...

Twenty-four companies are working to develop an avian flu vaccine for cattle, as the virus spreads among U.S. dairy herds, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters on Wednesday. Bird ...

U.S. consumer prices were unexpectedly unchanged in May as cheaper gasoline and other goods offset higher costs for rental housing, but inflation remains too high for the Federal Reserve ...

The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday voted at its annual meeting to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization and commend its congregants who use alternative fertility therapies or adopt ...

The United States believes China’s primary focus currently is its economy and that it is determined to work to stabilize bilateral relations with the United States, U.S. Deputy ...

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun, making him the first child of a ...

Major online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute 5 per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system, the country’s telecoms regulator has ...

 U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will not testify when his criminal trial resumes on charges he hid his drug use from the government in 2018 to illegally ...

Brazil’s economy rebounded in the first quarter from a sluggish second half of 2023 on stronger investments and consumer demand, official figures showed, adding to caution at the central bank, ...

By Peter Cooney and Steve Gorman Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed “Earthrise” photo during Nasa’s ...