• U.S. now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president says

    U.S. now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president says

    Nov 20, 2025 05:21 PM EDT

    ... African Union are also members. South Africa, which is the first African nation to hold the rotating presidency, is hoping to use its summit to make progress on issues especially affecting poor countries. That includes mitigating the impact of climate change and weather-related disasters, easing debt burdens for developing ...

  • Chile votes in polarized election after campaign focused on immigration and crime

    Chile votes in polarized election after campaign focused on immigration and crime

    Nov 16, 2025 06:12 PM EDT

    Kaiser wants to hold undocumented migrants in detention camps and bar their children from attending school. “He's the only one that can make Chile a first-world country again,” said Alatina Velázquez, 20, a student at a recent Kaiser rally where fans wore red "Make Chile Great Again" caps ...

  • What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

    What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

    Oct 24, 2025 10:45 PM EDT

    ... I was getting were two or three times higher than the official numbers for inflation. William Brangham: As the real data became clearer, both regular Argentineans and global investors lost trust in the country's economic numbers. Alberto Cavallo: It became very hard for the government to finance itself. And ...

  • Trump threatened to move World Cup games away from Boston, but it's up to FIFA to pick sites

    Trump threatened to move World Cup games away from Boston, but it's up to FIFA to pick sites

    Oct 15, 2025 07:11 PM EDT

    ... fans from around the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.” Trump's comments came during his meeting with Argentina President Javier Milei and it wasn't immediately clear what he was referring to by parts of Boston having been seized. Earlier this month ...

  • Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

    Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

    Oct 12, 2025 09:40 PM EDT

    ... person meeting with Xi later this month. In the meantime, his administration is said to be putting together a multibillion dollar bailout package to help make up farmers losses. Donald Trump: And we're going to take some of that tariff money that we made. We're going to give ...

  • Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

    Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

    Oct 09, 2025 03:18 PM EDT

    "God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest," Leo writes. Echoing Francis, Leo rails against the "illusion of happiness" derived from accumulating wealth ...

  • Trump urges all of Tehran to evacuate 'immediately' in new social media post

    Trump urges all of Tehran to evacuate 'immediately' in new social media post

    Jun 16, 2025 01:57 PM EDT

    ... a 4-day-old baby as fires blazed from the building. No sign of conflict letting up Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, appeared to make a veiled outreach Monday for the U.S. to step in and negotiate an end to hostilities between Israel and Iran. In a post ...

  • Netanyahu's government faces possible collapse as opposition moves to dissolve Knesset

    Netanyahu's government faces possible collapse as opposition moves to dissolve Knesset

    Jun 11, 2025 06:05 PM EDT

    ... schedule and buying time for last-minute negotiations. The dissolution vote, if it is not pulled, is expected to take place late at night. Separately, Argentina's President Javier Milei will address the Knesset on Wednesday. The bill must pass another three readings before parliament is dissolved, a process that ...

  • WATCH: Pope Leo XIV, first-ever American pontiff, appears for the first time

    WATCH: Pope Leo XIV, first-ever American pontiff, appears for the first time

    May 07, 2025 10:51 PM EDT

    ... who have descended on Rome to document the election. “The wait is marvelous!” said Priscilla Parlante, a Roman. Pedro Deget, 22, a finance student from Argentina, said he and his family visited Rome during the Argentine pope's pontificate and were hoping for a new pope in Francis' image. “Francis ...

  • Who will be pope? Meet some possible contenders

    Who will be pope? Meet some possible contenders

    May 02, 2025 02:45 PM EDT

    If he were elected, he would return an Italian to the papacy after three successive outsiders: St. John Paul II (Poland), Pope Benedict XVI (Germany) and Francis (Argentina). But Parolin has very little pastoral experience: He entered the seminary at age 14, four years after his father was killed in ...