- Johnny Ventura, legendary Dominican merengue singer, dies at 81
His son, Jandy Ventura, told the Dominican press that his father died in a hospital after having a heart attack.
read more ...2 hours ago - Mexico president: Sending fuel cargo for Cuba is their sovereign decision
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted his country’s right to send fuel to Cuba and said U.S. sanctions on the island were “inhumane.”
read more ...10 hours ago - Woman unaware she had $39M lottery ticket in purse for weeks
Lotto Bayern said Wednesday that the 45-year-old woman was the sole winner of a draw on June 9, having correctly guessed seven fields on a German lottery ticket.
read more ...13 hours ago - Armenia accepts ceasefire after soldiers killed in clashes with Azerbaijan
The incident was one of the deadliest since a six-week war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region last year.
read more ...15 hours ago - Olympic host Tokyo's COVID-19 daily cases rise to 3,177, second straight record
"I think we've entered a trend of sharp rises in cases, which I had feared the most," said Yuji Kuroiwa, governor of Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo.
read more ...16 hours ago - Israel war crimes apparent in Gaza war, human rights watchdog says
“Israeli forces carried out attacks ... that devastated entire families without any apparent military target nearby," according to the report.
read more ...1 day ago - USWNT ties with Australia, advances to soccer knockouts
A win or a tie would have seen the Americans through Group G and on to the next round.
read more ...2 days ago - Birthplace of 'Arab Spring' in crisis after Tunisia's president ousts government
The move poses the greatest challenge yet to Tunisia after its 2011 revolution that triggered the Arab Spring and ousted an autocracy.
read more ...2 days ago - Venezuela’s Maduro aims for dialogue with opposition in August
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that he was aiming to begin a dialogue with the country’s political opposition next month in Mexico.
read more ...2 days ago - French parliament OKs restaurant Covid pass, vaccine rules
President Emmanuel Macron and his government say they are needed to protect vulnerable populations and hospitals as infections rebound and to avoid new lockdowns.
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