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North Korea's acting ambassador to Rome is said to be seeking asylum
World
02.08.2024
'Asylum-seeking' N. Korea envoy from diplomatic family, says defector
Prokopy Nogovitsyn shows part of a mammoth skeleton in the backyard of his house in a village in the northern Siberian region of Yakutia
World
02.08.2024
In Siberia, Chinese demand for prehistoric tusks fuels 'mammoth rush'
The leaders of China and the US agreed a 90-day truce in the trade war that has put tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of goods
World
02.08.2024
US team to visit China for trade talks
Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States
World
02.08.2024
13 Canadians held in China since arrest of Huawei executive: official
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Paul Whelan, shown in this family photo, has been detained and charged by Russian prosecutors with espionage
World 02.08.2024
US citizen held in Moscow charged with 'espionage': lawyer
In an open letter to lawmakers, leaders from academic representative groups -- representing more than 150 higher education providers -- said a no-deal Brexit could lead to a serious "academic, cultural and scientific setback"
World 02.08.2024
UK universities would take 'decades' to recover from no-deal Brexit, leaders warn
Brazil's new president Jair Bolsonaro said he wants to go to Davos "to participate in that event" in his first interview since being sworn in
World 02.08.2024
Brazil's Bolsonaro confirms will participate in Davos
Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro has pledged a new direction for the country, away from its years of centrist and leftist politics that sought an independent path from the United States
World 02.08.2024
Bolsonaro open to discussing future US military base in Brazil
Roberto Castello Branco told a crowd of officials and Petrobras executives that "monopolies restrict liberty"
World 02.08.2024
New Petrobras boss seeks free-market 'efficiency' for oil giant
New Rio de Janeiro state governor Wilson Witzel, who took office this week as part of an electoral wave favoring far-right politicians that elevated Bolsonaro to the presidency, is given to making controversial statements
World 02.08.2024
Brazil 'needs its own Guantanamo,' says Bolsonaro ally
Mexico has called for an investigation into the use of force by US border patrol agents against migrants trying to enter the United States on November 25, 2018 (pictured), and on January 1, 2019
World 02.08.2024
Mexico demands US probe on use of force against migrants
Algerian security forces patrol the Tamanrasset desert, some 2,000 kilometres south of the capital Algiers, on July 2, 2018
World 02.08.2024
Arab migrants 'missing' after seeking shelter in Algeria: UN
A statue of Xipe Totec, a pre-Hispanic god whose priests sacrificied humans and then wore their flayed skins on their own backs as part of a fertilty ritual in what is now Mexico
World 02.08.2024
Archaeologists find Mexico temple to god of skinning sacrifices
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