More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF said Wednesday. The record-breaking drought is taking a toll on Indigenous and other communities in Brazil, Colombia and Peru reliant on boat connections, the UN agency [&he

PARIS, France (KMID/KPEJ) – A new spectacle has been drawing crowds to the Saint-Sulpice church on the Left Bank of the French Capital. The neo-classical monument, with interiors larger than the famed Notre Dame cathedral, is now the centerpiece of an immersive light show. At night, the walls come to life with 360-degree video projections […

Following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said it was not a good day for Germany. It is also “not a good day for Europe,” the Green Party politician said outside the Chancellery in Berlin late Wednesday. Europe bears a responsibility for peace on its continent and i

A court in Rwanda has slapped a beauty queen with a three-month suspended sentence for drink-driving and driving without a licence. Divine Muheto, who won the most recent Miss Rwanda pageant, was also fined 190,000 Rwandan francs ($140; £109). Ms Muheto last month crashed her car into an electricity pylon and a palm tree while […]

MILAN (AP) — An Italian naval ship carrying migrants was en route Wednesday to Albania to have asylum applications processed under a five-year deal to handle asylum claims outside the European Union’s borders that has already hit a legal roadblock. An Italian interior ministry spokesman confirmed that the naval ship Libra was heading to the [&helli