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USAID to grant $115 million in aid to El Salvador to stem migration
The United States will grant $115 million in cooperation aid to El Salvador to slow migration from the Central American country, Samantha Power, the administrator of the United States Age
- U.S., Canada set to discuss lifting of border restrictions -sources
- Biden, Erdogan upbeat about ties but disclose no breakthrough
- A divided Peru waits for next president as vote count nears completion
- Outgoing U.N. aid chief slams G7 for failing on vaccine plan
- Canadian man accused of murdering Muslim family members to face terror charges
- After NATO, Biden turns to EU for renewal of transatlantic ties
- U.N. readies for more displaced Afghans after troop withdrawal
- Families seek Americans’ release ahead of Biden-Putin summit
- Australia’s Victoria state reports 2 local COVID-19 cases
- Taiwan says will be ‘force for good’ after unprecedented G7 support
- NATO welcomes Biden in ‘pivotal’ post-Trump summit
- Netanyahu out, Bennett in as Israel marks end of an era
- Swiss reject law to help country meet Paris carbon emissions goal
- Five Ortega critics jailed as political crisis in Nicaragua deepens
- UK’s Johnson set to announce delay to end of COVID restrictions
- ‘Divine Vessel’ to mark China’s first human spaceflight since 2016
- New Zealand reports migration gain in April
- Hope, anger and defiance greet birth of Israel’s new government
- Peru’s Fujimori leads protest to annul votes as Castillo nears win
- Violent protests over police abuses continue in Tunisian capital
- U.S., South Korea reaffirm cooperation toward denuclearization of Korean Peninsula
- At biker rally, Brazil’s Bolsonaro says cops will support him ‘whatever happens’
- Swiss voters to decide on pesticides ban, terrorism law and COVID-19 aid
- G7 rivals China with grand infrastructure plan
- G7 leaders commit to increasing climate finance contributions
- Low turnout as Algerians vote in parliamentary election
- Syrian hospital hit in artillery attacks on Afrin, at least 13 killed
- G7 source praises Biden after ‘complete chaos’ of Trump
- Peru’s Castillo on verge of being named President after last-minute vote wrangling
- Putin says relations with U.S. at lowest point in years
- Bitcoin law is only latest head-turner by El Salvador’s ‘millennial’ president
- ‘Xi Jinping is my spiritual leader’: China’s education drive in Tibet
- N.Korea’s Kim calls for boosting military power -KCNA
- Eying Russia, Pentagon to send Ukraine counter-drone, electronic warfare equipment
- Are you supposed to be enjoying yourselves? Queen Elizabeth asks G7
- Oxford vaccine inventors recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Colombia ex-president asks forgiveness for army’s extrajudicial killings
- Spanish rescuers search sea for missing toddler after girl found dead
- Australia to refit ageing submarines as doubts over new French fleet grow – The Australian
- Russia to supply Iran with advanced satellite -Washington Post
- About 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray in famine -U.N. analysis
- U.S., Taiwan officials discuss trade, plan meeting ‘in coming weeks’-USTR
- UK’s Johnson hails Biden as ‘a big breath of fresh air’
- G7 expected to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries
- Factbox: What are G7 countries pledging on vaccine doses?
- Biden says biggest vaccine donation ‘supercharges’ battle against coronavirus
- Peru’s Castillo nears victory in tight presidential election
- Brazil plans to allow vaccinated people to not wear face masks -Bolsonaro
- Guatemalan court charges retired soldiers for Civil War killings, disappearances
Adviser to Costa Rica’s president resigns amid growing bribery scandal
A top adviser to Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado resigned on Monday after judicial officials said he was under investigation for his alleged role in a bribery scheme that has ensnar
- Drug kingpin El Chapo’s wife to plead guilty to U.S. charges
- Argentine president says Brazilians ‘came from the jungle’, sparking uproar
- Coronavirus wave takes Haiti, yet to begin vaccinations, by surprise
- Biden warns Russia it faces ‘robust’ response for harmful actions as he begins European visit
- Canada proposes to settle indigenous lawsuit after discovery of children’s remains
- Exclusive-Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray in famine -U.N. document
- U.S. blacklists four Nicaraguans, including Ortega’s daughter
- Samoa’s disputed leader promises Chinese-backed port at a third of the cost
- Young voter anger over housing, jobs threatens Moon’s legacy in South Korea
- In vigil remembering Canadian Muslim family, a vow that ‘this is our city’
- Pandemic propels Auckland to top of EIU’s most liveable cities ranking
- How an informant and a messaging app led to huge global crime sting
- Socialist Castillo holds on to tight lead in Peru election as protests break out
- Harris says Mexico talks ‘candid,’ pledges investment to stem migration
- Mexico bans influential ex-minister from holding public office
- Ecuador secures $550 mln to finance vaccination campaign
- Wife of ‘El Chapo’ to plead guilty to helping him run drug cartel, NY Times says
- Biden Asia chief ‘relatively confident’ on billion vaccine timing despite India crisis
- Websites back online after Fastly-linked glitch takes down internet
- Peru’s Castillo builds election lead but Fujimori says won’t concede yet
- Mongolia votes for new president amid COVID-19 campaign curbs
- Women score historic wins in Mexico’s mid-term elections
- Harris has ‘robust’ Guatemala graft talks, tells migrants: ‘do not come’
- U.S. report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab -WSJ
- Rights panel begins Colombia visit into possible abuses during protests
- Giuliani pressed Ukrainians to probe Biden allegations in 2019 call – CNN
- Killing of Canadian Muslim family with truck was hate crime, police say
- United States imposes visa restrictions over Cameroon separatist crisis
- Biden’s to-do list on foreign trip: Rally allies against COVID, Putin
- Mexicans vote in midterm elections seen as referendum on president
- Taxi for hire! Bangkok cabbie hopes to capitalise on his COVID-19 shot
- Endangered bamboo sharks given helping hand in Gulf of Thailand
- Afghan schoolgirl determined to return to school after deadly blast
- “We’re all pained” – Canada indigenous leaders dismiss Pope remarks
- Exclusive-Amid accusations of genocide from the West, China polices could cut millions of Uyghur births in Xinjiang – report
- Colombia president announces policing changes as protest leaders call off talks
- Half of Japanese people predict Olympics will be held this summer- Yomiuri poll
- Peru election in balance as exit poll gives Fujimori razor-thin lead
- Hundreds of former leaders urge G7 to vaccinate poor against COVID-19
- Australia’s COVID-19 hotspot reports two new local cases
- China reports 30 new coronavirus cases on June 5, up from previous day
- Taiwan to get 750,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots from U.S.
- Fire controlled at Iran steel plant, no casualties reported
- Taiwan to receive 750,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from U.S
- Congo volcano observatory failed to predict eruption due to mismanagement, say workers
- Mexico’s coronavirus death toll rises to 228,754
- Jordanian police attacked; witnesses cite anger over banned lawmaker
- Ipsos poll shows tie on eve of Peru’s election, with Fujimori slightly ahead
- UK’s Johnson calls on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022