At a smoky sports club in Papua New Guinea's rough-and-tumble capital, security guards check for weapons as players with smiles stained betel-nut red throw darts at the wall.. Torie hopes the upward trajectory of the game means Papua New Guinea's top players can one day hope to emulate their heroes across the world.
Elena Ruelas prepares a syringe of heroin, a drug that she has been using for 20 years.. - 'Too strong' - Ruelas, 50, suffered a near-fatal overdose a year ago, even though she had injected herself with no more than her usual dose of heroin, a highly addictive opioid made from the opium poppy.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hosting his fellow South American leaders Tuesday for a "retreat" aimed at strengthening ties in a region where left-wing governments are newly back in style.. That was the moment of Latin America's so-called "pink tide," when a wave of left-wing governments led the region.
There may not be much time to discuss security strategy in detail, but a summit of up to 47 European leaders just outside Moldova's capital Chisinau should send Russia a powerful message.. More than 2,000 delegates are expected to attend the talks in Mimi Castle, a wine estate 35 kilometres (20 miles) outside Chisinau and about the same distance from Tiraspol, capital of the separatist region of Transnistria.
Four Indigenous children lost in the Colombian Amazon since a plane crash almost a month ago are believed to still be alive, the military said as the search continued Monday in treacherous terrain.. The general said the search team believed it had come to within 100 meters (328 feet) of the children, but storms, thick vegetation and marshy terrain prevented them from reaching the kids.
China will send three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian scientist into space for the first time as Beijing pursues plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by the end of the decade.. Beijing plans to send two manned space missions to the space station every year, according to the CMSA. The next will be Shenzhou-17, which is expected to be launched in October. ehl-oho/reb/mtp
Novak Djokovic courted controversy Monday when he wrote "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia.. There are many reasons why I wrote that on the camera," 36-year-old Djokovic told Serb media at the tournament.
Four Indigenous children lost since a plane crash in the Colombian Amazon almost a month ago are believed to still be alive, the military said Monday. . The children -- aged 13, 9, 4, and 11 months -- have wandered in the jungle since a light aircraft crash in Colombia's southeast claimed the lives of the pilot, an Indigenous leader and their mother on May 1.
Shield, duck, punch: At a municipal sports hall in Chile's capital Santiago, dozens of members of the LGBTQ community gathered to learn Thai boxing self defense moves in a climate of rising homophobic violence.. According to Movilh, hate crimes against members of the LGBTQ community doubled from 2021 to 2022, with six recorded killings -- a tie with 2020 for the deadliest year.
Greece will hold fresh elections on June 25, the president's office said Monday as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis seeks to consolidate a May 21 win that left him short of a parliamentary majority.. Until the June 25 election, Greece is under a caretaker government headed by a senior judge as interim prime minister hec/yap/jph/cw
