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US state pulls snowploughs off roads due to extreme cold

The Minnesota Department of Transportation pulled snowploughs off the roads in nearly a dozen southeastern counties of the US state because of the extreme...

Thai capital closes hundreds of schools because of air pollution

More than 400 schools in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, have been shut for the rest of the week due to increasing concern over dangerously unhealthy...

Maduro offers to negotiate with opposition amid Venezuela crisis

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he is willing to negotiate with the country’s opposition. His remarks in an interview with the Russian state-owned RIA Novosti...

Venezuela prosecutors seek to ban opposition leader from leaving country

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor is seeking to ban opposition leader Juan Guaido from leaving the country as part of a criminal probe into his anti-government...

Brazilian authorities seek five arrests over collapse of dam

Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for five people in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people as it plastered...

Candles lit to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Candles were lit to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at a national event attended by school pupils from across the west of Scotland. East Renfrewshire and...

Cuba cleaning up after strongest tornado in 80 years

Neighbourhood brigades and government workers are hacking at fallen trees and hauling chunks of concrete out of collapsed homes as Havana attempts to recover...

Little sign of compromise over Brexit backstop

Hopes of compromise on the controversial Brexit backstop seem no nearer on the eve of a crucial set of votes in the Commons, with one...

US envoy ‘meeting Maduro officials in Venezuela’

The top US envoy in Venezuela has been meeting officials of President Nicolas Maduro’s government to try to ease heightened tensions, despite the two...

Powerful tornado hits Cuban capital Havana

The president of Cuba says that a tornado in eastern Havana has killed three people and injured 174 others. The Cuban capital was battered late...

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