US resumes deportation flights to Haiti despite continuing bloodshed
Critics condemn ‘reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of country More than 70 Haitians...
Category : Americas
War, grief and hope: the stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners
Images from Gaza, Ukraine, Madagascar and the US border chosen by global jury from more than 60,000 entries • World Press Photo winners 2024 –...
Ecuador rations power as Andean drought tightens grip
El Niño weather phenomenon depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants Ecuador has begun to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a...
Conman who swindled $175m in ‘massive’ psychic fraud scheme sentenced to 10 years
Patrice Runner, 57, of Canada was convicted in June of multiple counts of defrauding ‘millions of older and vulnerable Americans’ A Canadian conman, who swindled...
‘The city is a jail’: Haitian journalists get word out about gang violence
Correspondents in Port-au-Prince face danger as they play a vital role in chronicling city’s state of siege Each day, Makenson Rémy wakes in the hush...
‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse
Delivering a baby was already risky, but an unprecedented surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to close The worst fears of midwives...
Argentina court blames Iran for deadly 1994 bombing of Jewish center
The attack, blamed on a suicide bomber, killed 85 people, wounded 300 and devastated Latin America’s biggest Jewish community A new ruling by Argentina’s highest...
Ex-US ambassador sentenced to 15 years in prison for serving as secret agent for Cuba
Manuel Rocha, 73, will also pay a $500,000 fine after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government A former...
Canada spies under pressure over foreign meddling reports
Prime minister testified at inquiry into foreign interference that agency’s report of China meddling wasn’t relayed to him Canada’s spy agency is under pressure after...
Colombians told to shower with a friend as drought hits capital water supplies
Bogotá brings in water rationing with El Niño weather phenomenon meaning city could run out in under two months Couples in Bogotá are being asked...
