By ELÉONORE HUGHES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chief-Justice of Brazil's Supreme Court Edson Fachin weighed in on the dispute between two rival judges and suspended their opposing decisions on Wednesday, effectively canceling them out, as he sought to ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's Senate Wednesday night approved a landmark bill to regulate the exploration of critical and strategic minerals in the South American country, a step toward increased exploitation of its vast reserves of rare earths that ...
By EMMA BURROWS AP European Security Correspondent KUOPIO, Finland (AP) — In a civil defense shelter hewn into rock, behind doors designed to withstand a nuclear or biological attack, two Finnish conscripts wearing hazmat suits and breathing masks are measuring radiation levels as they ...
By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A day after tens of thousands of Spaniards protested the government's handling of the Ceuta border crisis, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez struggled to field lawmakers' questions about the matter, including what role Morocco played in the ...
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard at the request of Ukraine, drawing a condemnation Thursday from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who compared it to "state terrorism." A court in Norway ordered the seizure as ...
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nothing has shaped what it means to be Venezuelan today more than oil. For more than 100 years, in good times and bad, Venezuelans' identity has been built around the belief that their country's bountiful oil resources ...
