Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), officials said Wednesday, amid an US$11 million effort by the government to contain them.
US and Chinese trade negotiators will resume talks in Washington in early October, Beijing said Thursday, after new punitive tariffs raised fears of a breakdown in the protracted negotiations.
Some of the crew of a Swedish-owned oil tanker held by Iran in the Gulf have been released, the Swedish foreign ministry said on Wednesday, weeks after it was taken amid heightened tensions in the region.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson raised the prospect of a snap election on Tuesday after he suffered a major parliamentary defeat over his Brexit strategy that could delay Britain's exit from the European Union.
Wildfires that have raged across forests and grassland in eastern Bolivia for weeks have destroyed rare rock art sites, archeologists announced Tuesday.
An international operation has netted the largest ever heroin seizure in Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said Wednesday, with nearly 1.3 tonnes recovered from a container ship.
UN anti-corruption prosecutors pulled the curtain down on more than a decade of high-profile investigations in Guatemala when its mandate ended Tuesday, heightening fears of a return to impunity in the Central American country.
The US Defense Department said Tuesday it was freeing up US$3.6 billion in funds budgeted for other projects to build a wall on the Mexican border as ordered by President Donald Trump.
Hong Kong's embattled leader insisted today she had no intention of stepping down, after an audio recording emerged of her saying she wanted to quit and apologise for causing the unrest that has rocked the southern Chinese city.
Eight people were dead and more than two dozen missing and feared deceased on Monday after a scuba diving boat caught fire and sank off the California coast, with passengers trapped below deck by the roaring blaze.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a rebellion by his own lawmakers today over his Brexit strategy, despite warning he would respond to any defeat by calling an early election.
Haiti's long-suffering population has faced an extra burden for more than a week: closed service stations and lines of motorists hoping to buy even a few drops of petrol during a fuel shortage that's getting worse.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper urged Iran on Wednesday to enter discussions with the United States in order to ease tensions in the Gulf region.
At least seven people were killed on Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a village football pitch where a game was being played in south Morocco, local authorities said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed with his US counterpart Donald Trump to continue cooperation on Syria's Idlib to avert new humanitarian crises, Ankara said on Wednesday.
Gunmen burst into a Mexican strip club in a hail of bullets and killed at least 28 people as they trapped revelers inside and started a raging fire, officials said on Wednesday.
An appeal opens on Wednesday in the case of 24 men convicted over the beheadings of two young Scandinavian women on a hiking trip in Morocco's High Atlas mountains last December.
The Gaza Strip was in a "state of alert" on Wednesday after explosions killed two policemen in the Palestinian enclave, authorities said.
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