The jury awarded plaintiffs $38.3 million in damages saying that Chiquita was liable for killings perpetrated by the AUC–Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia).
A team of 32 firefighters in northern Iraq is battling to put out a massive fire, a day after it broke out at an oil refinery, with more than a dozen of them injured while tackling the blaze, local officials said.
The sea turned green amid an algae bloom on a beach in Thailand earlier this month. Nueng Nattakarn and his friends witnessed the discoloured waters during their holiday in Chonburi on 4 June. The phenomenon was expected to last for around a week before the sea turned back to normal, locals said. Algae blooms happen when there...
In a step forward towards effectuating train travel between Thailand’s Bangkok and China’s Beijing, the Southeast Asian nation will trial rail service between its capital and Laos’ Vientiane on July 13 and 14, according to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT). In a statement, Ekarat Sriarayanphong, an official at the...
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 7:58 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA).
The Israeli government announced Friday it was confiscating 800 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, which activists called the largest such seizure in decades.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said Friday that Peru had violated residents' "right to live in a healthy environment" in an Andean mining town that is considered one of the most polluted places…
Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India's most consequential politicians of the past decade held protests Friday against his arrest, which opposition parties say is part of a crackdown…
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Almost half of Haiti's people are struggling to feed themselves as gang violence spreads across the country, with several areas close to famine, international organizations said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Dozens of people are dead and more than 100 are injured after a mass shooting and fire Friday at a Moscow concert hall, Russian media reports. Beth Knobel, a professor at Fordham University and the former Moscow bureau chief for CBS News, discusses what we know about the attack.
After a political crisis with many twists and turns, Senegalese voters go to the polls on Sunday to choose their new president. Seventeen contenders are hoping to succeed President Macky Sall. FRANCE…