The Parliament of South Africa passed on Friday by majority vote a bill authorizing same-sex marriage. According to the motion, officials of the Department of Home Affairs should officiate these ceremonies, even if they are against them.

Canadian scientists called on politicians to take strong measures to face the negative effects of climate change.

President Vladimir Putin and his Venezuelan peer, Nicolas Maduro, are analyzing on Wednesday how to enhance bilateral strategic partnership, energy cooperation and a broad international agenda.

Mexico’s newly-inaugurated president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has ordered the creation of a truth commission to re-examine the kidnapping and murder of 43 students who disappeared after they were attacked by cartel gunmen and corrupt police officers.