Seven people were killed in a shooting that occurred in the northwestern Ecuadorian province of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas on Sunday morning, said local media. Several gunmen in black arrived at a billiard hall early Sunday in Santo Domingo, capital of the province, and opened fire on people p
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because "Russia is a very big power, and they're not", after hosting a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land. In a subsequent briefing with Ukrainian President V
A five-judge panel of Brazil's Supreme Court will kick off on Sept 2 the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, accused of plotting a coup after his electoral defeat, a court document showed on Friday. The head of the panel, Justice Cristiano Zanin, scheduled court sessions for September 2-12,
Air Canada said on Thursday it expects to cancel several dozen flights by day's end and around 500 flights by the end of Friday affecting 100,0000 passengers, ahead of a planned Saturday strike by its unionised flight attendants. Mark Nasr, chief operations officer at Air Canada, said the complexi
Los Angeles students and teachers return to class for the new academic year on Thursday under a cloud of apprehension after a summer filled with immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown. Los Angeles Unified School Distr
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he thought Vladimir Putin was ready to make a deal on ending the war in Ukraine after the Russian president floated the prospect of a nuclear arms agreement on the eve of their summit in Alaska. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his European all
The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he plans to keep his forces in Haiti for 10 years under an arrangement that will eventually give his firm a role in the country’s tax-collection system. In an interview with Reuters, Prince said his company,
Nearly five centuries after Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés signed it and decades after someone swiped it from Mexico's national archives, the FBI returned a priceless manuscript page to Mexico on Wednesday. The FBI said in a statement that the document had changed hands various t
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing commercial rocket launches, a move that could benefit Elon Musk's SpaceX and other private space ventures. Trump's order, among other things, directs the US transportation secretary to elimi
President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to the US capital and putting Washington's police department under federal control to combat what he said was a wave of lawlessness, despite statistics showing that violent crime hit a 30-year low in 2024. "I'm deploy
Colombian Senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who was shot in the head at a campaign event two months ago, died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 39, the hospital treating him said. Uribe, a member of a prominent political family and a lawmaker for the right-wing opposition, wa
Bo Hines, who headed Republican President Donald Trump's Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, said on Saturday he was leaving his current role and returning to the private sector. Late last month, a cryptocurrency working group led by Hines and including several administration officials outlined
The Trump administration on Friday ordered a comprehensive review of Harvard University's federally funded research programmes, and threatened to take title to or grant licences from the school's lucrative portfolio of patents. In a letter to University President Alan Garber and obtained by Reuter
