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Chile's capital Santiago, where the parliament is based, has seen more than 80 percent of the South American country's coronavirus cases
World
20.08.2024
Half of Chile senate, two ministers in coronavirus quarantine
Republican Senator Marco Rubio was named to temporarily chair the US Senate Intelligence Committee
World
20.08.2024
Rubio named to lead Senate Intel Committee
Delivery riders queue outside a McDonald's in London; the company is facing a sexual harassment complaint filed at the OECD by an international coalition of labor unions
World
20.08.2024
McDonald's hit with sexual harassment complaint at OECD
Michel Piccoli and second wife singer Juliette Greco in Paris in 1967
World
20.08.2024
French screen legend Michel Piccoli dead at 94
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Ride-share firm Uber is cutting about a quarter of its global workforce in the face the coronavirus pandemic's hit to its business
World 20.08.2024
Uber says slashing jobs and trimming investment
Bemba, shown arriving in Kinshasa after his acquittal, 'failed to establish that he had suffered a grave and manifest miscarriage of justice,' the ICC ruled
World 20.08.2024
DR Congo's Bemba loses bid for damages from ICC after acquittal
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Irqah Palace in the capital Riyadh in February 2020
World 20.08.2024
Lawmaker says fired State Dept watchdog looking at Saudi deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for "urgent" measures in Dagestan
World 20.08.2024
Putin intervenes as Russia's Dagestan faces virus 'catastrophe'
Maria Nunes Sinimbú, 76, a retired school teacher Manaus, Brazil, has lost three of her 12 children and two other family members to COVID-19
World 20.08.2024
Great-grandmother's losses show virus' ravages in Brazil
The United States is today more than twice as likely to endure a devastating 'dust bowl' scenario than during the Great Depression
World 20.08.2024
Climate change makes repeat 'Dust Bowl' twice as likely
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin ever since Ethiopia broke ground on the project in 2011
World 20.08.2024
Ethiopia defends plan to begin filling Nile dam
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive in April last year to seize the capital Tripoli from the UN-recognised Government of National Accord
World 20.08.2024
Libya unity govt seizes airbase in new blow for rival Haftar
Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, seen here at a political rally in March, has announced his resignation after months of political uncertainty
World 20.08.2024
Lesotho's embattled PM Thabane says stepping down
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