2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (684+ words) A renowned Venezuelan human rights activist was freed Sunday after more than four years in a notorious Caracas prison, saying he endured 1,675 days behind bars that were "too much pain for a human being." "The message remains the same: four…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago   (505+ words) US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Washington was negotiating with Havana's leadership to strike a deal, days after he threatened Cuba's reeling economy with a virtual oil blockade. "Cuba is a failing nation. It has been for a long…...

5+ hour, 12+ min ago   (423+ words) Former British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson quit the Labour Party Sunday, seeking to avoid causing it "further embarrassment" after newly released US documents revived scrutiny of his connection to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, 72, who was sacked as…...

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (594+ words) Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied in Prague on Sunday to support the country's pro-Ukrainian president, who is locked in a dispute with the government's nationalist billionaire leader Andrej Babis. Organisers from the independent Million Moments for Democracy movement claim…...

12+ hour, 7+ min ago   (280+ words) Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that the Winter Olympics " starting in less than a week's time in northern Italy " were an opportunity to "rekindle hope for a world at peace. The American-born pontiff, after wishing the best to athletes and…...

12+ hour, 57+ min ago   (528+ words) The Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Sunday it feared "at least 200 dead" in a "massive" landslide that struck a militia-held mine in the country's east. Since its resurgence in 2021, the M23 armed group has seized vast tracts of the…...

16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (543+ words) A second round of talks between Russian, Ukrainian and US officials on a US-drafted plan to end the nearly four-year Ukraine war will begin on Wednesday, instead of on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky did not give a reason…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago   (461+ words) Pakistan forces were hunting on Sunday for the separatists behind a string of coordinated attacks in restive Balochistan province, with the government vowing to retaliate after more than 120 people were killed. Around a dozen sites where the attacks took place…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago   (629+ words) Iran has declared European countries" armies "terrorist groups, its parliament speaker said Sunday, following the EU"s decision to apply the same designation to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Lawmakers wore the green uniform of the Guards in a display…...

1+ day, 17+ min ago   (788+ words) Exiled Tibetans began a unique global election on Sunday for a government representing a homeland many have never seen, as part of a democratic exercise voters say carries great weight. From red-robed Buddhist monks in the snowy Himalayas, to political…...