At least 10 people were killed when a passenger bus veered off the road and overturned in the predawn hours of Monday in southern Peru's Puno region, local media reported. The interprovincial bus, operated by a company called Transportes Turismo Universal, was traveling along the Puno-Cusco route
The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence. The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the US. The Times won f
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial said on Monday he would hold the former president in contempt of court for a 10th time for violating a gag order, and warned he would consider jailing him for any further violations. Justice Juan Merchan said the nine $1,000 fines he ha
Seven people were shot and injured outside a nightclub in Southern California port city Long Beach in the United States late Saturday, authorities said on Sunday. The Long Beach Police Department said in a news release that officers responded to reports of a shooting around 11:15 pm local time Sat
The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 66, local authorities said on Sunday. The number of people still missing rose to 101 and more than 80,000 had been displaced, according to the state civil defence authority.
The death toll from heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to 56, with 67 missing, 32,900 evacuated and at least 356,000 without electricity, local authorities said on Saturday. Heavy rains in the state for nearly a week have so far affected 281 municipalities,
Donald Trump's pledge to fight what he calls "anti-white feeling" in the US will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programmes created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life. Some high-profile supporters of the former president, now the 2024 Republ
At least three synagogues and a museum in New York received bomb threats on Saturday, but none were deemed credible by the New York Police Department, a city official and police said. Manhattan Borough President Mark D Levine said on X the synagogue bomb threats were "a clear hate crime, and part
Heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul killed 39 people, with another 68 still missing, the state civil defence agency said Friday, as record-breaking floods devastated cities and forced thousands to leave their homes. It was the fourth such environmental disaster in a ye
Heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 31 people, local authorities said on Friday, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens still have not been accounted for. More than 70 people were still missing and at least 17,000 were displaced in the state
Responding to pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the US over the war in Gaza, US President Joe Biden has said Americans have the right to demonstrate but not to unleash violence. "There is a right to protest, but not a right to cause chaos," Biden said in remarks at the White House
Mounting tensions on US campuses boiled over on Wednesday when pro-Israel supporters attacked an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, hours after police arrested activists who occupied a building at Columbia University and cleared a tent city from its campus. Eyewitness videos from th
US President Joe Biden's administration faced renewed pressure on Wednesday from his fellow Democrats to influence Israel not to launch a full-scale invasion of Rafah, the city where almost half of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people have taken refuge. Fifty-seven of the 212 Democrats in the House
