SAN JOSE – Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister Arnoldo Andre said on Tuesday that the Central American government was prepared to give political asylum or refuge status to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez.

Thousands of people have rallied in several towns in Serbia to protest a lithium excavation project the Balkan country’s government recently signed with the European Union

Britain’s new left-leaning government says the nation is “broke and broken,” blaming the situation on its predecessors ahead of a major speech on the state of the public finances that is widely expected to lay the groundwork for higher taxes

BOGOTA – Colombia’s government proposed on Monday a 523 trillion peso ($130 billion) 2025 budget to lawmakers for their consideration, the finance ministry said in a statement, as mounting fiscal challenges put pressure on President Gustavo Petro’s agenda.

Britain’s new Labour government has axed several construction projects and withdrawn a winter fuel payment for millions of retirees to cover what it calls a newly found 22-billion-pound ($28 billion) shortfall in the public finances

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says Italy and China have signed a three-year action plan to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation

Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations are meeting in Rio de Janeiro to discuss a global tax on the super-rich

Whether it’s Gaza, Ukraine, Syria or a new world order, it’s been Russia versus the United States and the West during Moscow’s presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected on Sunday flooded areas near the country’s border with China after 5,000 people were affected, state media KCNA said on Monday.

Cyprus’ energy minister says the future of an electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will be settled next month