Category: 2. World

BBC Verify has been investigating the US Coast Guard’s “active pursuit” of a ship – believed to be the Bella 1 – in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The oil tanker issued distress signals while moving northeast from the Caribbean…

Spain’s Christmas lottery has been welcomed as an “injection of hope” in the northwest of the country, where the jackpot handed out hundreds of millions of euros just months after wildfires had caused devastation.

Most of the first-prize-winning…

Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region’s maritime infrastructure.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out…

Donald Trump appointed on Sunday a new special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex, sparking a fresh diplomatic row with Denmark.

Jeff Landry, the newly appointed envoy and Republican governor of…

Eleven Ecuadorean soldiers have been sentenced to 34 years in prison each after being found guilty of the forced disappearance of four boys last year.

The discovery of the beaten and burned remains of the four boys, aged between 11 and 15, shocked…

Media in Syria reported intense fighting between SDF backed by US troops and HTS-led regime’s forces in the east of the city of Aleppo since Monday morning. 

Al-Jazeera cited its sources in Syria that SDF forces shelled the Ashrafiya, Sheikhan…

The postal service, called La Poste, said in a statement that a distributed denial of service incident, or DDoS, “rendered its online services inaccessible”. It said the incident had no impact on customer data, but disrupted package and mail…