A nose job by Peruvian President Dina Boluarte sparked intense controversy on December 3, with some lawmakers calling for her to be removed from office…
A dozen people have been killed in southwestern Colombia since November 30 due to fighting between two dissident factions of the defunct FARC guerilla group,…
1US President Joe Biden on December 1 issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing for two criminal cases, despite assurances…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised President-elect Donald Trump that Canada would toughen controls over the long undefended joint border, a senior Canadian official said…
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations if they undercut the US dollar. "We require…
US President-elect Donald Trump said November 25 he intends to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada, along with a 10…
Left-wing politician Yamandu Orsi was elected president of Uruguay, official results showed on November 24, in a rebuke by voters of five years of conservative…
While fighting between criminal groups in Haiti decreased during 2024, attacks on civilians have risen, including an expanded use of "horrific sexual abuse," according to…
Uruguayans go to the polls November 24, with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose "Pepe" Mujica hoping to reclaim the country's top job five…
One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders, best known by his nickname "Barbecue," fled a police operation in the capital Port-au-Prince that left two of…
A Kenyan-led police force trying to restore order in gang-ridden Haiti should be turned into a UN peacekeeping mission, the United States said November 20,…
US car giant Ford on November 20 announced 4,000 more job cuts in Europe, mostly in Germany and Britain, in the latest blow to the…
A Canadian minister accused of faking Indigenous roots resigned November 20 in a huge embarrassment for an already weakened government seeking reconciliation with native peoples.…
Texas authorities have offered the incoming Trump administration land on the border with Mexico to build "deportation facilities" in support of the president-elect's plan for…
Brazilian police on November 19 arrested four soldiers guarding the G20 summit over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva…
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed November 18 that he plans to declare a national emergency on border security and use the US military to carry out…
US President-elect Donald Trump tapped Republican Brendan Carr, an Elon Musk-backed critic of big tech, to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), calling him a…
Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva issued a scathing broadside against "neoliberalism" on November 16, ahead of hosting leaders at a G20 summit…
US President-elect Donald Trump nominated fracking magnate and climate change skeptic Chris Wright as energy secretary on November 16, tasking him with "cutting red tape"…
More than 20,000 people have been displaced across Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince in four days, a UN agency said November 16, as residents flee gang violence…
Venezuelan authorities freed 225 people this weekend who were detained in protests against the disputed reelection of President Nicolas Maduro in July, the prosecutor's office…
A man carrying explosives died in a blast as he attempted to attack Brazil’s Supreme Court on November 13, police said, days before the country…
Polish and American officials on November 13 opened a US missile base in northern Poland originally intended to defend the West against threats from the…
Donald Trump announced firebrand ex-lawmaker Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general November 13, naming a fierce defender who would be well-placed to make…
An Argentine appeals court on November 13 upheld the corruption conviction of ex-president Cristina Kirchner, who was sentenced to six years in prison and declared…
