Chile denied permission for a Chinese hospital ship to provide medical services onboard, saying the vessel lacked authorization to treat local residents, a decision that came amid heightened pressure from the U.S. over a proposed undersea cable project.
Truck drivers in Brazil are facing unusually long delays to deliver soybeans at the Miritituba port terminal in the Amazon rainforest, as a record harvest of approximately 180 million metric tons overwhelms logistics at one of the world's key export hubs for the crop.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog issued a confidential report on Friday urging Iran to let it inspect all its nuclear sites and pointing at Isfahan as a place of interest because of a new enrichment plant and near-bomb-grade uranium that was stored there.