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CAMPO GRANDE: Senior officials and delegates meeting in Brazil this week said migratory species that cross national borders face mounting threats from habitat loss, pollution, climate pressures and poorly planned infrastructure, as the 15th Conference of the Parties to the

COLOMBIA: At least 66 people were killed after a Colombian military C-130 Hercules crashed seconds after takeoff from Puerto Leguizamo in the southern department of Putumayo, in one of the country’s deadliest recent military aviation disasters. Military authorities said dozens

MEXICO CITY: FIFA has released about 40% of the hotel rooms it had blocked in Mexico City for the FIFA World Cup 2026, the city’s hotel industry group said, returning roughly 800 rooms to general availability over the past month

EuroWire, MANCORA: A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck near the northern Peruvian coastal resort of Mancora late Tuesday night, according to Peru’s Geophysical Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey. The tremor was recorded at 11:14 p.m. local time on March 3,

EuroWire, EXETER: Parts of the UK are forecast to be warmer than Barcelona this week, with the Met Office predicting temperatures climbing into the high teens and reaching up to 19C in the warmest areas on Thursday, March 5. The

BELO HORIZONTE: The death toll from flooding and landslides in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state rose to 62, the Minas Gerais Military Fire Department said in a bulletin issued at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. The agency said 56 deaths were

ABU DHABI: UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Feb. 24, to discuss bilateral cooperation within the framework of the two countries’ strategic partnership. The leaders

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Union is looking to increase liquefied natural gas supplies from Qatar, Canada and North African countries as senior officials warn that Europe’s growing reliance on U.S. LNG has become a vulnerability in the bloc’s energy mix.

EuroWire, STRASBOURG: The European Parliament on Thursday rejected a motion of censure against the European Commission, leaving the EU’s executive arm in office after a roll-call vote in plenary. The motion failed to secure the required supermajority needed to force

EuroWire, DAVOS: The European Union and India are nearing completion of a wide-ranging free trade agreement that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said would create a combined market of about 2 billion people and nearly a quarter of