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By Nicolas Cortes and Carolina Fernandez SANTIAGO, May 8 (Reuters) – Patricio Hernandez lives on the northern outskirts of Chile’s capital Santiago, a hilly area below the Andes mountains which he and other residents fear could be devastated by a major Amazon data center complex. “This hill is very important to the community; it is a green space, a place for recreation and for community,” he said, while strolling dirt […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s highest court has set aside lawmakers’ vote to reject a report that found credible evidence of wrongdoing by President Cyril Ramaphosa related to a long-running cash scandal, paving the way for impeachment proceedings against him. Ramaphosa survived a motion to face impeachment proceedings in 2022, when lawmakers from his African National Congress party voted to reject a scathing report that recommended a full investigation into […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Rwandan academic and government critic died in custody as he was set to be freed from jail, immediately raising concern from a prominent rights group that urged an investigation into the death of Aimable Karasira. Karasira died on Wednesday after he took an overdose of his own medication, according to Rwandan authorities. Human Rights Watch questioned that account, urged the international community to pay attention, […]

BERLIN (AP) — Police were called to a bank in a small town in western Germany on Friday to deal with a hostage situation in which the driver of an armored van carrying cash was being held, authorities said. Regional police said they were alerted to the situation at the Volksbank branch in Sinzig, a town of about 17,000 people in the Rhine valley near Koblenz, at about 9 a.m. […]

Tensions are high as Russia prepares to celebrate its most important secular holiday Saturday, with fears about security amid the war with Ukraine and signs of domestic discontent casting a shadow over annual celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square. A unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine that Russia announced for Friday and Saturday quickly unraveled. Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for the continued fighting, just as they did when Ukraine’s own unilateral […]

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, May 8 (Reuters) – Somalia faces a severe malnutrition crisis and urgently needs more aid funding to avert a catastrophe, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday, warning it may be forced to halt humanitarian support from July without additional financing. A combination of multiple failed rain seasons, which have wiped out crops and livestock, and ongoing conflict and insecurity is pushing people […]

By Clara Denina and Divya Rajagopal LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) – Rio Tinto is evaluating the economic potential of McEwen Copper’s giant Los Azules project in Argentina as the mining group considers increasing its 17.2% stake in the development, two industry sources said. Los Azules is among the world’s 10 largest undeveloped copper projects and the move highlights Rio Tinto’s push for large-scale copper assets as miners scramble to meet […]

By Michael S. Derby May 8 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran said on Friday that he hopes current central bank Chair Jerome Powell will stay on as a governor only for a short period of time. “Transitions are important,” Miran said on Fox Business Network’s program ‘Mornings with Maria’. But, he said, “I think it’s important to make sure that it’s a transition period and that there’s nothing […]

By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 8 (Reuters) – Fighters suspected of being members of Islamic State West Africa Province attacked a Nigerian army base in the northeastern town of Magumeri, killing at least two soldiers and wounding the commanding officer, security sources and the military said. The assault in Borno state in the early hours of Thursday was the latest deadly attack on troops battling an insurgency that has […]