Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison on Friday, for accepting $76 million in bribes from the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam project. Moreno...
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected the US-brokered Lebanon-Israel framework agreement in a televised address on Friday. Qassem called the deal humiliating, and destructive to Lebanese sovereignty, vowing that...
President Donald Trump announced on Friday a sweeping agreement with Venezuela giving the United States majority control over 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. Hailed by Trump as the "biggest oil...
Moldovan President Maia Sandu received Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Chisinău on Friday. During the visit, Zelenskyy attended a military parade marking the 35th anniversary of Moldova's...
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday declared a three-day national mourning after wildfires in the northeast killed at least 12 people and injured dozens. Tebboune described the deaths as "a...
King Harald V of Norway died at the age of 89 on Friday, at Oslo University Hospital. King Harald had been hospitalized since August 17, receiving treatment for a blood condition and a bacterial infection. He...
US and Colombian armed forces held high-level defense talks in the port city of Tumaco on Thursday. The talks focused on joint intelligence, reconnaissance, and security operations aimed at dismantling local narco...
Iran is preparing a list of conditions to present to the United States for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian security official said on Thursday. He added that ships would be allowed to use a...
The Ariane 6 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the MTG-I2 weather satellite on Thursday. Developed by the European Space Agency, the satellite is designed to help...
UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed Thursday for $1.1 billion to fully fund an aid plan for combating the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The plan, costing $2.1 billion in total, has received a...