Trudeau pays tribute to firefighter, 19, killed battling Canada wildfires
Devyn Gale killed while tackling British Columbia blaze as wildfires continue to rage across country with little reprieve Canada faces ‘long, tough summer’ of wildfires...
Category : Americas
Drought leaves millions in Uruguay without tap water fit for drinking
After years of underinvestment, reservoir has had to be topped up from estuary, raising health concerns More than half of Uruguay’s 3.5 million citizens are...
Giant sloth pendants indicate humans settled Americas much earlier than thought
Scientists studied jewelry made from now extinct creatures and theorize that humans arrived in Americas 27,000 years ago New research suggests humans lived in South...
Guatemala prosecutor suspends party of anti-corruption election candidate
Prosecutor suspends Movimiento Semilla after Bernardo Arévalo unexpectedly reached second round Guatemala’s presidential election has been thrown into confusion after the country’s top prosecutor moved...
Mexico: IEDs kill four police officers and two civilians in ‘brutal’ cartel ambush
Another 14 wounded after seven improvised devices set off in attack by organized crime group in Tlajomulco, Jalisco state Four police officers and two civilians...
‘It’s party time’: Jair Bolsonaro opens themed online store
Products include ‘party kits’ with hats, cake decorations and banners bearing Brazilian ex-president’s face Some politicians go on lucrative speaking tours when their days in...
Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer
Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele First the soldiers came for those with mohawks....
Weather tracker: heat dome raises temperatures in Spain and Portugal
Phenomenon is forecast to expand as it strengthens, triggering conditions of more than 30C in parts of Europe Parts of southern and western Europe have...
Brazil says illegal miners driven from Indigenous territory, but ‘war’ not over
Country’s top cop said 90% of miners despoiling Yanomami land had been expelled, though experts say they are only displaced Brazil’s top federal police chief...
