The US Senate voted Thursday in favor of a bill asking the Donald Trump administration to end the military support it is providing to Saudi Arabia in the latter's war in Yemen, a move taken amid the controversy sparked by the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in early October at Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul.

Greenpeace on Thursday staged an attention-grabbing protest against Brazil's plans to auction off oil blocks in the Amazon region.

Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron said he sought to avoid romanticizing the past in "Roma," a family drama that was a surprise winner of the top prize (Golden Lion) at the Venice Film Festival and which will be streamed on Netflix starting Friday.

The European economics commissioner on Thursday said the European Union and Italy were working constructively but the new Italian budget would need improvements in order to adhere to the bloc's standards.

The head of soccer's world governing body said here Thursday that FIFA is considering a plan to increase the number of teams taking part in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from 32 to 48.

Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space-tourism venture, reached the edge of space in a test flight Thursday, four years after a fatal accident set back the project, forced a reassessment of safety issues and roiled the growing commercial space industry, according to a Dow Jones report supplied to Efe.