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Ecuador has plunged deeper into crisis after an anti-corruption presidential candidate was assassinated, less than two weeks before elections. Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Thursday declared a 60-day state of emergency, a three-day nationwide…
Emergency services were struggling to get a handle on the extreme flooding battering southern Norway on Thursday as helicopter rescues continued. There have been hundreds of reports of storm-related damage and 125 roads were closed, including many mai…
Cuba, which for decades was one of the largest exporters of sugar in the world, now has to import sugar to meet its domestic demand. Six decades after the Cuban Revolution, the country is again undergoing a severe economic crisis, this time worse than…
Iraq is banning the term “homosexuality,” saying media companies must instead use the term “sexual deviance,” after a document from the Arab state’s media regulator was published this week. The restriction comes from The Iraqi Communications and Media…
Moscow (AFP) – Two Ukrainian combat drones headed for Moscow were shot down Wednesday in the latest targeting of the capital this week, Russian officials said, while Ukraine said a strike killed two people in the southern frontline city of Zaporizhzhi…
Eleven people were found in the debris after a fire broke out at a holiday lodge for adults with disabilities in the French town of Wintzenheim, Nathalie Kielwasser, deputy public prosecutor of the nearby city of Colmar, said on Wednesday. Earlier, 10…
Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citing four survivors brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday. Their metal boat overturned in bad wea…
A 74-year-old dairy farmer and cheesemaker near Bergamo, Italy, died when a shelf collapse sent thousands of 44-pound wheels of cheese cascading on top of him, authorities said. Giacomo Chiapparini was checking on wheels of parmesan-style Grana Padano…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili commemorated on Tuesday the victims of a brief war with Russia 15 years ago and lamented the loss of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. “This was a terrible tragedy,” Garibashvili said on t…
Kia is clearly serious about offering a top notch electric and it has unleashed the plush EV9 to prove it. After achieving a degree of success with the EV6 two years ago, the Koreans have upped the ante with an imposing and well-equipped EV9, albeit i…