ATACAMA DESERT, Chile, July 20 - Chile’s millennial president, Gabriel Boric, promised to mine differently. He would turn the world’s largest copper producer and second largest lithium miner into a country that focused on environmental and social responsibility....
Palestinian health ministry and Red Crescent said that one person was killed and four wounded by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus....
The Sub Labans lost their home of several decades after being forced out by Israel at the start of the month. Willem Marx recounts the story of the eviction, and the push to force Palestinians out....
A suspected underground gas explosion ripped open roads and flipped vehicles in the heart of South Africa’s biggest city, killing one man and injuring at least 41 people, authorities and emergency services said on Thursday....
The Supreme Court of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, condemned the gruesome assault on two women in the northeastern state of Manipur, amid ongoing violence between two ethnic groups....
A landslide triggered by torrential rains in India’s western Maharashtra state killed five people, with many others feared trapped under piles of debris, local media reported Thursday....
Two-day strike by consultants comes amid record waiting times due to a pandemic backlog and multiple strikes over the past year as workers battle a cost of living crisis, Transport workers are due to strike at the same time as the consultants with staff at 14 train operators walking out on Thursday, Saturday and on July 29....
Witness says commando killed prisoner to make room in helicopter. Commanders ordered junior officers to execute prisoners to register first “kill”. Soldier who leaked evidence of extrajudicial killing charged, possible life sentence. "We pin medals on serial killers.”
Included in the coalition are India’s largest national opposition, the Congress party, as well as powerful regional parties such as Trinamool Congress, which governs the state of West Bengal under the popular chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, and the Aam Aadmi party, which governs Delhi and Punjab....
Extreme heat was forecast across the globe on Wednesday, as wildfires raged and health warnings were in place in parts of Asia, Europe and North America....
The United Nations does not treat us well, compains Abd al-Salam al-Youssef, a Syrian father of five who lives in the Batenta camp for displaced people in northwestern Syria....
A two-day meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 leading economies ended Tuesday without a final communique due to differences over the war in Ukraine....
EU leaders have failed to persuade all of their Latin America and Caribbean counterparts to strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite watering down a joint statement closing a two-day summit in Brussels....