Spain's cabinet has approved measures to scrap the country's so-called golden visa scheme.
It was introduced in 2013 in the wake of a housing market crash and euro currency crisis in a bid to revitalize the property sector and granted residency (...)
British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a smuggling speedboat
The Royal Navy has seized nearly £17m worth of drugs after it intercepted smuggling speedboats in the Caribbean Sea.
Across two operations, HMS (...)
The world's oldest man, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, has died aged 114 — just two months before what would have been his 115th birthday.
Guinness World Records confirmed the news, stating: "After living through both World Wars, seeing the invention of (...)
Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region, Reuters reported.
Satellites registered more than 30,200 fire points in Venezuela from (...)
Argentina and Colombia say they have taken "concrete steps" to improve frayed relations between the two countries after far-right Argentine leader Javier Milei called his left-wing Colombian counterpart a "terrorist murderer" in a CNN interview.
In (...)
Corina Yoris was nominated as the PUD's candidate on Friday but has been unable to register
Venezuela's main opposition coalition says its candidate has been blocked from July's presidential election.
The opposition Unitary Platform (PUD) said it (...)
President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made competing visits to the US border in Texas, each seeking to stress they can tackle illegal immigration.
The issue is one of the most polarising in US politics, and will be central to this year's (...)
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has for years told his country its children are under attack from deviant sexualities and pedophilia. Now, his government is embroiled in a scandal after it emerged that its president had pardoned a man (...)
RIYADH — Roberto Mancini, the head coach of the Saudi national football team, has announced the squad for the upcoming preparatory camp to be held in Qatar from Dec. 31 to Jan. 11.
This camp is part of the fourth phase of preparation for the 2023 (...)
A sprawling caravan of migrants from central and southern America has trekked through Mexico heading north towards the United States border.
Up to 8,000 people of all ages, mainly from Venezuela, Cuba and Mexico, are part of the procession following (...)
The UK is preparing to send a warship to Guyana in a show of diplomatic and military support for the former British colony, the BBC has learned.
It comes after neighboring Venezuela renewed its claim for a disputed part of Guyanese territory that is (...)
An infamous fugitive billionaire — known as Fat Leonard — has been released as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela, the White House has confirmed.
The fugitive, whose real name is Leonard Glenn Francis, masterminded a $35m (£30m) fraud against (...)
Guyana and Venezuela have agreed to not "use force" to settle their dispute over the oil-rich region of Essequibo.
After meeting Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali reaffirmed his commitment to peace in the (...)
Venezuela's president ordered the creation of a new state called "Guayana Esequiba" on Tuesday, following a controversial Sunday referendum which saw Venezuelan voters approving the annexation of land from neighboring Guyana.
The area in question, (...)
Venezuelans have voted overwhelmingly in favor of claiming a disputed oil-rich territory long controlled by neighboring Guyana.
More than 95% approved establishing a new state in Essequibo, officials say.
Caracas says the region has been part of (...)
The Thai owner of the Miss Universe pageant, which was once part of former US president Donald Trump's business empire, has filed for bankruptcy a year after buying it for $20m (£16.4m).
JKN Global Group has said it would try to resolve a "liquidity (...)
An offshore firm helped create companies used by members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including one hiding the late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's yacht, the BBC can reveal.
Seychelles-based Alpha Consulting also helped to form more than (...)
The recent surge of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border has put President Joe Biden in a difficult, politically threatening bind.
State and local Democratic leaders who should be among his closest allies heading into next year's presidential (...)
Costa Rica's president has ordered a state of emergency, citing a surge of migrants crossing through the country toward the United States.
"The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically," (...)
Attacks on civic and democratic space in Venezuela are increasing through policies aimed at silencing opposition and criticism of the government, the head of a UN-appointed human rights body said on Monday.
Marta Valiñas, chair of the Independent (...)
The Venezuelan government invited journalists to tour the Tocoron Penitentiary Center in Aragua state on Saturday — days after security forces reclaimed control of a prison that has spent many years under the control of gangs.
The Tocoron prison, (...)
Russia's foreign minister told the UN General Assembly on Saturday that a new world order is being born through a struggle between a neocolonial minority and a "global majority" seeking to end decades of Western domination.
Sergey Lavrov said power (...)
"Are we going to be too late for the SDGs?" Mia Mottley asked world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Friday, challenging them to "summon the determination to make the fundamental governance changes" that will turn the vision of sustainable (...)
In the face of rising hunger and poverty, developing countries will continue their decades-long fight for a more just and equitable world, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
Speaking on behalf of the (...)
The Biden administration has taken mixed positions on its policies involving Haiti – with one federal agency warning that the Caribbean country is too dangerous for US citizens, while another agency deports Haitians back to the violence-torn (...)