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10/21 US-SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY DRILLS POSTPONED - 4 JANUARY 2018
North Korea holds military parade on eve of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea... READ MORE›
LOCKHEED SEES DEMAND FOR ADDITIONAL 400 F-16 JETS OVER 10 YEARS
Randall Howard, who leads F-16 business development at Lockheed Martin, made the comments on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow... READ MORE›
POPE'S ADVISERS SAY HE GOT ABUSE VICTIM'S LETTER, DESPITE DENIAL
During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as slander, seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes... READ MORE›
A REFERENDUM IN ECUADOR IS ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR SOUTH AMERICA'S LEFT-WING POPULISTS
Former president Rafael Correa won't be able to run again for Ecuador's presidency... READ MORE›
AP EXCLUSIVE: DESPITE DENIAL, POPE GOT ABUSE VICTIMS LETTER
During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as slander, seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes... READ MORE›
TILLERSON TO VISIT PERU AND COLOMBIA, DOGGED BY TRUMP AID THREAT
Peru, which has seen cocaine output increase and trades the title of top producer with Colombia, has received less assistance from the United States... READ MORE›
EGYPTIAN DINOSAUR DISCOVERY FIRES UP PALEONTOLOGY WORLD, SHOWS TIES TO EUROPE
Discovered in the Sahara Desert, Mansourasaurus is the most complete dinosaur skeleton from the late Cretaceous ever found in Africa... READ MORE›
IMMIGRATION, TAX REFORM LIKELY CENTRAL TO TRUMP'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
Ikea's cheap and not-so-cheerful legend Ingvar Kamprad was by some estimations the world's eighth richest man, worth 59 billion US... READ MORE›
CHINA'S COFCO MAKES PAINFUL CUTS IN DRIVE TO LEAD GLOBAL FOOD TRADE
Last month Yu Xubo, president of the Beijing-based parent COFCO Group, laid out a bold expansion... READ MORE›
RING OF FIRE IS ACTIVE - BUT THAT'S NORMAL
According to Japan's volcanology division, Mount Moto-Shirane had been quiet for 3,000 years before its sudden eruption... READ MORE›
COLOMBIA EVICTS OVER 200 HOMELESS VENEZUELANS FROM SPORTS FIELD SQUAT AS CROWDS FLOOD BORDER
Colombia on Wednesday evicted over 200 homeless Venezuelans who had been sleeping in a sports field in its border town of Cucuta, highlighting growing unea... READ MORE›
LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA FAST FACTS
Lula da Silva is a founding member of Brazil's only socialist political party, Partido dos Trabalhadores, The Workers' Party... READ MORE›
AS CHINA'S DIDI LOOKS ABROAD, CHALLENGES SPRING UP AT HOME
Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is on a roll overseas, snapping up assets in South America and flexing its financial muscles to drive growth... READ MORE›
CHILEAN PRESIDENT-ELECT NAMES SENATOR AS MINING MINISTER
Chile's conservative President-elect Sebastian Pinera on Tuesday named Senator Baldo Prokurica as incoming mining minister, a key post in the world's top copper exporter... READ MORE›
POPE PARTIALLY APOLOGIZES TO CHILEAN ABUSE VICTIMS, BUT STILL BACKS CONTROVERSIAL BISHOP
Juan Carlos Cruz, a high-profile Barros accuser, later took to Twitter to voice his outrage over the pope's remarks... READ MORE›
ADM PURSUES BIG AG MERGER WITH GRAIN TRADER BUNGE
ADM pursues big ag merger with grain trader Bunge source... READ MORE›
LUCY BARNARD ONE YEAR INTO 30,000KM ATTEMPT TO MAKE WORLD WALK RECORD FROM ARGENTINA TO ALASKA
One year, 3,000km, five pairs of boots Lucy Barnard's record-making walk... READ MORE›
PROTECT THE AMAZON FROM BIG BUSINESS AND GREED, POPE FRANCIS URGES
Illegal loggers and drug traffickers in other parts of the Peruvian Amazon have killed activists and attacked indigenous tribes that shun contact with outsiders... READ MORE›
AMAZON'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE 'NEVER SO THREATENED'
Thousands of indigenous people had traveled to meet the pontiff from throughout the Amazon basin region of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia... READ MORE›
BIGGEST, BADDEST RISKS FOR THE YEAR AHEAD
It was released Wednesday in advance of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next week... READ MORE›
WORLD BANK ECONOMIST DENIES ACCUSATIONS OF BIAS AGAINST CHILE
World Bank economist denies accusations of bias against Chile media... READ MORE›
DEATHS AS POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE STRIKES SOUTHERN PERU
A powerful earthquake in southern Peru has killed at least two people and injured dozens, while causing houses and roads to collapse... READ MORE›
POPE'S VISIT TO PERU AND CHILE CASTS HARSH LIGHT ON HANDLING OF SEXUAL ABUSE CASES
Victims' groups in Chile and Peru have invited prominent campaigners against child abuse within the Catholic Church to join them during the pontiff's visit... READ MORE›
CHINA'S COFCO MAKES PAINFUL CUTS IN DRIVE TO LEAD GLOBAL FOOD TRADE
Last month Yu Xubo, president of the Beijing-based parent COFCO Group, laid out a bold expansion... READ MORE›
DEEP BURIED NEARLY PURE ICE GLACIERS SPOTTED ON MARS
The discovery was possible due to images and data sent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MRO, launched in 2005... READ MORE›
WARMING WILL PUT MILLIONS MORE AT FLOOD RISK IN NEXT 20 YEARS, SCIENTISTS SAY
Unless countries urgently boost their flood defenses, millions more people will be at risk from river flooding in the next 20 years as global warming incre... READ MORE›
IN LATIN AMERICA, JOHN KELLY TRAINED FOR A JOB SERVING TRUMP
In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump... READ MORE›
BOLD NEW DIRECTION FOR WESTERN DESERT ARTISTS
Artist Ms Multa says she's looking forward to using her new skills for commercial use... READ MORE›
CHOCOLATE: SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORLD WON'T RUN OUT OF CHOCOLATE BY 2050
Researchers at UC Berkley said cacao plants are not on their way out... READ MORE›
WHY GUYANA'S RAINFORESTS ARE A SCIENTIST'S DREAM
We're investing in bringing in new blood and expertise to organisations like ours, explains Aiesha Williams, WWF Guianas country manager for Guyana... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : South America.
FRANCE BANS FRACKING AND OIL EXTRACTION IN ALL OF ITS TERRITORIES
French parliamentarians have passed a law banning fossil fuel extraction. President Macron says he wants France to lead the world with switch to renewables... READ MORE›
ALARM AS STUDY REVEALS WORLDS TROPICAL FORESTS ARE HUGE CARBON EMISSION SOURCE
Let's turn tropical forests back into a sink... READ MORE›
U.S. COAST GUARD OPERATES SECRET PRISONS IN PACIFIC
The Coast Guard makes the argument that these people are not formally under arrest until they get to the United States... READ MORE›
'A RECKONING FOR OUR SPECIES': THE PHILOSOPHER PROPHET OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Conserving individual insect species piecemeal, as is done with most endangered mammals, is extremely difficult... READ MORE›
NEEDLE FOUND IN TRICK-OR-TREAT CHOCOLATE BAR
London police are asking trick-or-treaters to inspect their Halloween candy after a child found a needle in a chocolate bar in the city's south end... READ MORE›
HONEY TESTS REVEAL GLOBAL CONTAMINATION BY BEE-HARMING PESTICIDES
Neonicotinoid insecticides are found in 75 percent of global honey samples and half contain a cocktail of chemicals... READ MORE›
LOSING THE WILDERNESS: A 10TH HAS GONE SINCE 1992 AND GONE FOR GOOD
According to the study, Australia has not suffered the worst of global wilderness loss... READ MORE›
A SUBMARINE HAS VANISHED, LAUNCHING A FRANTIC SEARCH FOR 44 PEOPLE ON BOARD
Over the years, several submarines have vanished, often igniting mysteries that lasted decades... READ MORE›
ALBINEN, SWITZERLAND: VILLAGE WILLING TO PAY 25,000 PER PERSON
The goal is to boost Albinens declining population and bring life back to the village... READ MORE›
PARADISE PAPERS AND U.S. TAX CUTS A WARNING THAT CAPITALISM MAY BE LOSING ITS DYNAMISM
There is a consensus in mainstream economics that whether Proudhon was right or wrong, property ownership makes economies stronger... READ MORE›
FLOTILLAS OF FIRE ANTS ADD NEW LAYER OF HORROR TO POST-HARVEY FLOOD HAVOC
Despite the raft-making behaviour being well known to entomologists it was observed following hurricane Katrina, images of the ants sailing on floodwaters have caused panic online... READ MORE›
LARGE ICEBERG BREAKS OFF FROM GREY GLACIER IN SOUTHERN CHILE
Grey glacier is located in the Southern Patagonian ice field, just west of the Cordillera del Paine... READ MORE›
U.S. NAVY JOINS SEARCH FOR ARGENTINE SUBMARINE
U.S. Navy to join search for missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members... READ MORE›
JOURNALIST RETRACES ANCIENT PATH OF HUMAN MIGRATION
By contrast the Africans floating across the Bab-el-Mandeb to the Arabian Peninsula, many of them war refugees from Somalia or elsewhere, were relative orphans... READ MORE›
MARRIAGE COULD HELP REDUCE RISK OF DEMENTIA, STUDY SUGGESTS
Experts conducted an analysis of 15 studies which held data on dementia and marital status involving more than 800,000 people from Europe, North and South America, and Asia... READ MORE›
THE 'TRUMP SLUMP' PREDICTIONS THAT NEVER CAME TO BE
Hand-wringers also feared that ObamaCare enrollment would tank following Trump's pledges to repeal and replace the program and his administration cutting program marketing... READ MORE›
AFTER PIRATE ATTACK, CALIFORNIA FAMILY MISSING IN BRAZILIAN JUNGLE FOUND SAFE
The Harteaus had recently been living in the southern Brazil city of Florianopolis... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | TRUMP SAYS MOSQUE ATTACK IN EGYPT PROVES U.S. NEEDS BORDER WALL WITH MEXICO. IS HE RIGHT?
Trump's reasoning seems to be that a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border will keep Muslim extremists from crossing into the United States... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA'S BESPOKE MANUFACTURERS STILL MAKING A LIVING
Photo Campbell Bolwell builds sports cars for a predominately Chinese market... READ MORE›
FROM BITCOIN TO BELIZE, HERE ARE BEST AND WORST ASSETS OF 2017
The Persian Gulf country was thrown into chaos mid-year when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and transport ties... READ MORE›
COCAINE BABE SENTENCED FOR ROUND-THE-WORLD DRUG RUN
Ms. Lagace and Ms. Roberge are warehousing a quantity of cocaine... READ MORE›
AMERICAN FAMILY MISSING IN THE AMAZON AFTER POSSIBLE PIRATE ATTACK
The family along with other passengers were forced down the Amazon river into an area known as Porto dos Dias... READ MORE›
WHY THE NIGHTS ARE GETTING BRIGHTER BUT NOT IN A GOOD WAY
Asia, Africa and South America, for the most part, saw a surge in artificial night lighting... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S DANGEROUS AMERICA FIRST PATH IS AN ECONOMIC SURRENDER
China's ability to credibly claim the mantle of global economic leadership is a breathtaking, dangerous turnabout for the United States... READ MORE›
HOW MANY COUNTRIES HAVE LEGALISED IT?
Brazil became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage not through legislation, but with a court ruling... READ MORE›
BRAZIL LAWSUIT ACCUSES JAGATH JAYASURIYA OF WAR CRIMES
Human rights groups in South America have filed war crimes lawsuits against a former Sri Lankan general who is now his country's ambassador to Brazil... READ MORE›
FAREWELL TO NIGHT? LIGHT POLLUTION REDUCING DARKNESS WORLDWIDE
Thus, the study may have actually underestimated the problem of light pollution around the world... READ MORE›
SANTIAGO MALDONADO: ARGENTINA OBSESSED WITH ACTIVIST'S DISAPPEARANCE
Argentinians fear the government made Santiago Maldonado disappear... READ MORE›
CONCERN GROWS AFTER TWO FALSE ALARMS
When the submarine failed to call in, the Argentine navy began its search for the vessel... READ MORE›
MISSING ARGENTINE SUBMARINE HIGHLIGHTS YEARS OF MILITARY UNDERFUNDING
'DOES SOMEONE HAVE TO DIE?' President Mauricio Macri pledged to improve the 26,000-strong armed forces' capabilities during his campaign in 2015... READ MORE›