The hippos are the descendants of four brought to the country in the 1980s by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar as he built a private zoo.

Taiwan’s opposition leader has returned from a trip to the Chinese mainland, where she pushed for cross-straight dialogue. But her diplomatic efforts could backfire on the democratic island, where a sense of local identity is growing.

Nearly 100 protesters were arrested after urging Schumer and Gillibrand to block bomb sales to Israel during a Manhattan protest.

Former Brazilian intelligence chief and lawmaker Alexandre Ramagem has been taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Hezbollah's leader urged Lebanon on Monday to step down from scheduled direct talks with Israel set to take place in Washington, the first in decades. Naim Kassem made the remarks in a televised address on the eve of the scheduled meeting between Lebanon and Israel's ambassadors to the U.

Aluminum jumped to a four-year high in London, as US President Donald Trump’s blockade of Iranian ports threatened more disruptions to shipments from the Persian Gulf.

Benin's ​Finance Minister Romuald ‌Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West ​African nation's ​April 12 presidential election, garnering ⁠over 94% of ​votes, provisional results ​from the electoral commission showed on Monday.

Keiko Fujimori leads Peru's preliminary presidential vote count after an election disrupted by logistical failures in logistics several areas.