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Wayuu handbags are one of Colombia’s most popular and distinctive handicrafts, but have also become the symbol of a perpetual cycle of poverty and hunger in the northern region of La Guajira. The colorful handbags are a source of income for indigenous Wayuu women in the desert region, who have been hand weaving the bags

Chinese President Xi Jinping told the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Wednesday that there was no need for any country to “teach” others how to defend human rights, nor politicize the issue and interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. Xi and Bachelet, who is visiting the Asian country

US author Douglas Grant Mine weaves a gripping tale of lives upended in a flash and revenge served cold in his recently published second novel “April and the Gardener,” a book that draws in part on his experiences as a journalist during the 1979-1992 Salvadoran civil war. The picturesque, volcano-ringed colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala,

At least 183 hectares of marijuana, with an estimated production of 600 tons of the drug, have been destroyed in the last eight days in an operation carried out by authorities from Paraguay and Brazil. The operation, called «New Alliance XXXII,» involves some 100 men from the National Anti-Drug Secretariat and the Brazilian Federal Police.

Fourth-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas got off to a rocky start at this year’s French Open, finding himself two sets down before asserting control and eventually wrapping up a 5-7, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 victory in the wee hours of Wednesday over Lorenzo Musetti to advance to the second round. Tuesday’s featured night match was one of

The Premier League gave its seal of approval Tuesday to the consortium that agreed to pay 4.25 billion pounds ($5.33 billion) for Chelsea Football Club. The bid from a group led by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly was accepted earlier this month by the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust, which has been running the club for

«If we had still been living in that house, my son would have been studying in his room when a missile hit it.» That is how Irina Vospitanyuk describes the situation in Ukraine after leaving the country two months ago to rebuild her life in Brazil, where she is trying to leave the horrors of

The optimism about a potential end to Colombia’s decades-old armed conflict that surrounded the 2018 election has evaporated over the past four years. As citizens head to the polls for the first round of presidential balloting on Sunday, growing territorial control by illegal armed groups and near-daily massacres and murders of social leaders have dashed

A group of women with a months-old baby is using plastic to improvise a place to get out of the sun and rain, to rest and sleep on the sidewalk in front of a jail in El Salvador. They, like hundreds of other people are hoping that their relatives, who have been arrested since the

Hong Kong’s 90-year-old Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen, an open critic of what he views as the Vatican’s soft approach to China, criticized the Holy See for being “unwise” despite its “perhaps good intention” on Tuesday, a day when Catholics around the world were encouraged to pray for the church in China.

At least 11 people were killed in a shootout during a police raid in a northern Rio de Janeiro favela early Tuesday, authorities said. Military police said 10 of the dead were suspected gang members while the 11th was a female resident of the neighborhood. Another two people were hospitalized following the police raid. (…)

Around 120,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion have arrived in Spain in the last three months, according to government data Tuesday. The vast majority — just shy of 109,000 — of the refugees in Spain have been granted temporary protection status, a European Union policy in force for the first time since it was drawn up

Police have arrested hundreds of supporters of ex-Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan ahead of a planned march to the capital, Islamabad, a former minister said on Tuesday. The government has said it would not allow the march to the capital, fearing it would trigger chaos and cause security problems. Fawad Chaudhry, a close aide of

An appeals court confirmed Tuesday a nine-year prison sentence for Russia’s most prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. In March, Navalny was found guilty of embezzling funds for his anti-corruption foundation and insulting a judge during a previous trial, a sentence that added nine years to his time in prison. «The Moscow City Court upheld the

Before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine three months ago, a stay in a 4-star hotel in Spain would have been a dream holiday for many Ukrainians. But for Svitlana and around 150 Ukrainian refugees – most of whom are women, children and older people – who have been sheltering at a hotel on

Viktor Tsoi, the charismatic rocker who became a symbol of the Soviet reformist perestroika movement and who through his music vocalized a nation’s desire for change and freedom, has stormed the Manege hall with a biopic exhibition in downtown Moscow. «Tsoi is an inherent part of contemporary Russian culture,» Alexandr Karmayev, creator and producer of