Arnaldo Chamorro, the now-former chief of staff for Paraguay’s Agriculture Ministry, has been replaced after signing a “proclamation” with a nonexistent nation.The “United States of Kailasa,” led by a fugitive Indian guru wanted on multiple criminal charges, has become notorious for duping governments around the world into phony agreements.Among Kailasa’s…

A crematorium worker in Brazil got a shocking surprise after finding a 90-year-old woman still alive inside a body bag after she was pronounced dead, according to reports.According to the Estadão, a Brazilian news source, the whole ordeal began on Saturday in the city of São José, just hours after…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina will not be joining the BRICS bloc of developing economies next year as scheduled, a senior official in President-elect Javier Milei’s team said Thursday.”We will not join the BRICS,” Diana Mondino, who Milei picked as foreign minister once he is sworn into office on…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday.Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general…

Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province is setting a deportation goal of 10,000 illegal Afghan migrants per day.An estimated 1.7 million Afghans lived in Pakistan as of October, when authorities warned they’d need to leave the country if unable to procure proper documentation by month’s end.The 1.4 million Afghan refugees living in…

A Mexican drug cartel was so bold in operating frauds that target elderly Americans that the gang’s operators posed as U.S. Treasury Department officials, U.S. authorities said Thursday.The scam was described by the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC. The agency has been chasing fraudsters using call centers…

Hamas militants released eight more Israeli hostages and three bodies Thursday as a cease-fire with Israel was expected to expire. The Israeli military said six Israeli hostages had been released from captivity in the Gaza Strip and transferred to Egypt by the Red Cross late Thursday. They arrived hours after two…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Thursday it has asked media and market competition officials to investigate whether a potential Abu Dhabi-backed takeover of The Telegraph newspaper would impact press freedoms.Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said she issued a “public interest intervention notice” after considering the possible impact of the offer…

Former Burmese Information Minister Ye Htut has been sentenced to 10 years in prison over Facebook posts that allegedly spread false or inflammatory news.Ye Htut, 64, often used social media as a platform to criticize Burma’s military junta.The country has seen fierce crackdowns against political dissidents since the military’s overthrow…

Former British finance minister Alistair Darling, a central figure in the U.K.’s response to the 2008 financial crisis who later helped organize the campaign against Scottish independence, has died. He was 70.Darling had been treated for cancer and died in a hospital in Edinburgh, his family said in a statement…