A panel of scientific experts investigating the mysterious death of Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda delivered a report to a Chilean judge on Wednesday.. An investigation into the cause of Neruda's death first began in 2011 when Manuel Araya, who had been his driver and personal assistant, asserted that the poet was given a mysterious injection in his chest just before he died.
A fifth person has died in New Zealand in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, police said Thursday, amid fears the death toll could climb further.. National police said in a statement Thursday that a person is "believed to have died after being caught in flood water" in the Gisborne region, bringing the death toll in the Hawke's Bay area on the east coast to four.
Thousands of Colombians protested Wednesday against health care reforms proposed by the country's first-ever leftist president Gustavo Petro, and an amnesty proposed for members of armed groups in his quest for "total peace.". "The streets have spoken, they have spoken in a massive way and they are saying: 'It (the government) is not going to impose a health reform... it is not going to impose a total peace on us'," former vice president Francisco Santos said at a march in the capital Bogota Wednesday.
UK police said on Wednesday that two teenagers had been charged with the weekend murder of a 16-year-old transgender girl, in a case that has drawn national concern.. Cheshire Police on Sunday arrested two 15-year-olds, a boy and a girl, from nearby Leigh and on Wednesday charged them with her murder.
World Bank chief David Malpass announced Wednesday he would step down by the end of June from his position heading the development lender.. In a note to staff seen by AFP, Malpass said: "Developing countries around the world are facing unprecedented crises and I'm proud that the Bank Group has continued to respond with speed, scale, innovation, and impact."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel Sunday to Turkey to discuss support after a massive earthquake, his first trip to the NATO ally which has had turbulent relations with Washington.. Blinken is expected to discuss tensions with Turkey when he travels on Monday to Athens, although the temperature has cooled since the earthquake as Greece provides assistance to its neighbor.
The former security chief to Uruguay's president was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison, the prosecutor's office announced, in a scandal involving the issuing of fake passports to Russians.. A judge on Wednesday ratified a plea agreement and sentenced Astesiano to four and a half years in prison and a fine of some $4,000.
The United States will work to maintain lines of communication with China despite a rift over an alleged surveillance balloon, a top US diplomat said Wednesday.. "We have, we are and we will maintain open lines of communication with the PRC so we can responsibly manage the competition between our countries," Sherman said, using the acronym of the People's Republic of China.
The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency's chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search.. "We need to continue to push until we get the answer," agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, referring to the search for the origins of the virus.
Sedef's relief at surviving Turkey's deadly earthquake is quickly giving way to fears she could succumb to diseases that threaten to take hold across shattered regions now devoid of basics including toilets.. "Maybe we didn't die from the earthquake, but we will certainly die from diseases," she told AFP, declining to give her family name.
