An appeals court is allowing Texas to temporarily keep its floating buoys on...
Texas Wins Appeal to Keep Border Barrier, for Now

An appeals court is allowing Texas to temporarily keep its floating buoys on...
Hurricane Lee is expected to intensify into an “extremely...
A court in Guatemala has sentenced former president Otto Pérez Molina to eight...
Mexico appears all but certain to elect its first ever female head of state...
Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. The judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to...
The rate of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has dropped by 66.1% this August compared to the same month last year, satellite data...
Authorities in Pennsylvania have closed a number of schools as a manhunt continues for a convicted murderer who escaped from prison on 31 August. Danelo...
Guatemalans are casting their votes in a presidential run-off election that many hope will reverse democratic backsliding under recent administrations. Recent...
Heavy rain has deluged parts of Southern California, with forecasters warning of a “potentially historic amount of rain” and severe flooding in the usually...
Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo has scored a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential election, after voters angry at successive leaders’...
Ecuador’s presidential election appears headed to a run-off vote in October between left-wing candidate Luisa Gonzalez and business scion Daniel Noboa...
Regional and international leaders have hailed the victory of left-wing anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arevalo in Guatemala’s presidential run-off, while...
Voters in Ecuador have passed a referendum to prohibit oil drilling in a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a move hailed as “historic” by environmental...
They are giant economies, with even bigger populations and still greater ambitions. Starting Tuesday, leaders of the group of nations known as the BRICS –...
As leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet for their annual BRICS summit starting on Tuesday, there is little doubt that the grouping has...