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Venezuela had been counting on being admitted to the BRICS group during its recent summit in the Russian city of Kazan

World

Venezuelan prosecutor accuses Lula of faking injury as tensions with Brazil rise

A top Venezuelan official on Saturday accused Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of faking an accident to avoid attending a summit meeting...

AFPOctober 26, 2024

Pro-Palestine activists outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024

World

Pro-Palestine DNC delegates welcome Biden’s exit but side-eye Harris

Though there are only a handful of them among thousands of delegates, the “Uncommitted Movement” delegates at the Democratic National Convention are among the...

AFPAugust 21, 2024

Haiti has been in turmoil for years, with armed gangs taking over parts of the country and unleashing brutal violence, leaving the economy and public health system in tatters

World

Haitian PM agrees to ‘share power’ until election: Caribbean counterpart

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has accepted to “share power” with the opposition until fresh elections are held in the crisis-torn country, a Caribbean...

AFPFebruary 28, 2024

US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit that Benin 'has offered up to 2,000 troops' for a multi-national security force meant to help overwhelmed Haitian police regain control

World

Caribbean summit host hails possible Benin troop deployment to Haiti

Guyana, hosting a summit of Caribbean countries, on Tuesday welcomed an announcement that Benin was mulling a 2,000-strong troop contribution to a UN security...

AFPFebruary 27, 2024

World

G77+China summit in Cuba seeks ‘new economic world order’

The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the global population, gathers in Cuba.

AFPSeptember 14, 2023

The Dominican Republic's is hosting a summit of Ibero-American leaders

World

LatAm food crisis on the table at Ibero-American summit

Addressing a food crisis affecting a fifth of Latin America’s population featured high on the agenda of an Ibero-American leaders summit that started in...

AFPMarch 24, 2023

From left to right, presidents Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay, Mario Abdo Benitez of Paraguay and Alberto Fernandez of Argentina

World

Uruguay says pursuing China trade deal with or without Mercosur partners

Uruguay insisted on Thursday that it would pursue a free trade deal with China with or without its partners in the South American Mercosur...

AFPJuly 21, 2022

Mercosur exports to Singapore in 2021 amounted to $5.9 billion, and imports $1.2 billion

World

Mercosur trade bloc denies Zelensky request to address summit

South America’s Mercosur trade bloc has declined a request by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address its upcoming summit, host Paraguay said on Wednesday....

AFPJuly 20, 2022