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10h ago

Chile’s Piñera faces impeachment bid after Pandora Papers leak

Documents appear to outline a deal involving the 2010 sale of the Dominga mine, a sprawling copper and iron project during Piñera's first year in office.
Image: Sebastián Piñera
Image: Sebastián Piñera

He was a Sandinista leader. But you can't buy his book in Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua.

Sergio Ramírez's new book portrays with acid wit the end of the revolution that he himself helped forge and has now become the "repressive machinery" of the "authoritarian left."
Image: Sergio Ramirez at Casa de America in Madrid, Spain, on 14 Sept. 2021
Image: Sergio Ramirez at Casa de America in Madrid, Spain, on 14 Sept. 2021
11h ago

Overnight building blaze in Taiwan raged for hours, 46 dead

After daybreak, firefighters could be seen spraying water into the middle floors of the still smoldering building from high aerial platforms.
Image: TAIWAN-FIRE
Image: TAIWAN-FIRE

Man arrested after deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway

Norwegian police say several people were killed during a bow and arrow attack in Kongsberg. Police confronted the attacker and arrested him 20 minutes after initial reports came in.
Man arrested after deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway
Man arrested after deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway
1d ago

5 people killed in Norway bow and arrow attacks, police say

The attacks took place over "a large area" of Kongsberg, a municipality of around 28,000 people in southeastern Norway, police said.
Image: Police at the scene after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway, on Oct. 13, 2021. Several people have been killed and others injured by a man armed with a bow and arrow in a town west of the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
Image: Police at the scene after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway, on Oct. 13, 2021. Several people have been killed and others injured by a man armed with a bow and arrow in a town west of the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
1d ago

Guatemala protesters disavow colonialism, Columbus, aiming at statues

“They were invaders and a continuation of the invasion,” Daniel Pascual, a leading advocate for farmer rights, said about Columbus and other Spanish colonial figures.
A demonstrator holds a head torn off from the statue of former President Jose Maria Reina Barrios during protests against the treatment of indigenous people by European conquerors during Hispanic Heritage Day in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Oct. 12, 2021.
A demonstrator holds a head torn off from the statue of former President Jose Maria Reina Barrios during protests against the treatment of indigenous people by European conquerors during Hispanic Heritage Day in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Oct. 12, 2021.
1d ago

North Korean website uses 'Squid Game' as propaganda against South Korea's 'brutal' society

North Korea routinely criticizes South Korean culture and its capitalist system.
Image: TOPSHOT-SKOREA-US-TELEVISION-SOCIAL-SQUIDGAME
Image: TOPSHOT-SKOREA-US-TELEVISION-SOCIAL-SQUIDGAME
1d ago

The world just got a new richest sports team — and a scandal befitting its new owners

Saudi Arabia is the latest petrostate to buy up a Western sporting franchise in what experts say is an attempt to boost its image abroad.
Newcastle United takeover
Newcastle United takeover

'Adapt or die': England urged to face up to climate threat of floods, droughts

A report warns that London’s sea level is expected to rise dramatically — by as much as 9 inches by the 2050s, and nearly 18 inches by the 2080s.
Winter weather Dec 29th 2020
Winter weather Dec 29th 2020

Netflix to edit 'Squid Game' after South Korean woman inundated with calls

Netflix said they would edit scenes to remove the phone number, which appears on a mysterious invitation card given to potential players of a series of deadly children’s games.
'Squid Game' is the Netflix runaway hit for 2021.
'Squid Game' is the Netflix runaway hit for 2021.

Mexico cheers U.S. decision to open borders in Nov. to fully vaccinated people

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said it will coincide with a push to reactivate economic activities as they've pushed to bring area vaccination rates in line with the U.S.
A National Guardsman stands guard at a fence that runs along the Rio Grande near the International bridge on Sept. 17, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas.
A National Guardsman stands guard at a fence that runs along the Rio Grande near the International bridge on Sept. 17, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas.