Americas

United Nations Secretary General says the ceasefire is ‘more like a lesser fire’ as the US and Iran continue to exchange strikes.

A federal grand jury has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro in an attempt to hold him accountable for killing four people, three of them Americans.

The 28-year-old had no travel insurance and was left thousands of dollars out of pocket for life-saving emergency surgery.

New York Court releases alleged Jeffrey Epstein suicide note found by his Italian gangster cellmate.

A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will reach the Spanish island of Tenerife “within three days”, with the evacuation of passengers to start from May 11, Spain said Wednesday.

A Brazilian teenager has shot dead two staff members and injured two other people at a school, in the latest school violence to rock the country.

The cruise ship carrying a deadly rat virus outbreak will be able to sail on to Spain’s Canary Islands after the evacuation of two seriously ill passengers. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges to do ‘everything’ possible to bring peace to the Middle East, as talks between Iran and the United States stall.

The Colombian government blames cocaine-smuggling guerrillas for the attack as the country gears up for key elections.

An explosive device has killed 13 people travelling on a bus in southwest Colombia and injured at least 38 as violence linked to drug trafficking escalates.

The clock is ticking on the US’s war powers statute, which sets a 60-day limit on any president using military force without congressional authorisation.

A 16-year-old girl has been dramatically rescued from a registered sex offender after a keen-eyed petrol station attendant noticed her mouthing a chilling word to him.

The medical team of late soccer legend Diego Maradona missed a chance to save his life, Argentine prosecutors said at the start of the second trial over his death.

A homeowners’ association in Queens has won a small victory in its long-running fight over loud local concerts.

THE ECONOMIST: One of the advisers the president ignores is his younger self.