BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador’s government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, just as Friday’s court-imposed deadline for completion looms. The Ministry for Energy and Mines said in a statement Wednesday evening that it shut one of 247 wells in the 43-ITT block — the
The summer of 2024 will go down in American history as one filled with unexpected twists and turns. Here’s what happened. (AP Video by Mike Pesoli) By The Associated Press Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will sit down Thursday for
A court in Thailand found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder on Thursday and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that involved the victim being dismembered. A court in Thailand found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family
The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is debating whether it should remove statues, signs and monuments with colonial ties and how those spaces should be used instead. The nation is the latest to embrace a movement to abolish colonial-era symbols as it reckons with its past and questions if and how it should memorialize
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Nearly 2½ years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele says the security advances achieved are sustainable without what was supposed to be a temporary measure. Each month, El Salvador’s congress, which is comfortably controlled by Bukele’s New Ideas
SAO PAULO (AP) — It’s a showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide in the coming hours if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn’t swiftly comply with one of his orders. Musk has responded with insults
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents seized $6 million worth of cocaine and arrested two men from the Dominican Republic in waters south of Puerto Rico, officials said Thursday. More than 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of cocaine were found aboard a boat traveling south of the U.S. territory on Wednesday, according to U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — In a new book, former President Donald Trump calls his 2018 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki “a GREAT meeting” and threatens to imprison Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg if the tech mogul does anything this year akin to his $400 million donation to local election offices in 2020. The
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three migrants were killed and 17 were injured Thursday when they were hit by a vehicle on a highway in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said. Officials confirmed that two of the dead — an adult and a child — were from Nicaragua. A woman from Ecuador was also killed.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday defended his decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov , who is now under preliminary charges in France over alleged criminal activity on his popular platform. Macron also said he was unaware that Durov was coming to France before
