Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia
Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communities A withering drought has turned the...
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Bolsonaro was engineer of ‘wilful coup attempt’, Brazil congress inquiry alleges
Congressional investigation into failed rightwing insurrection on 8 January calls for former president to be charged with four crimes Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro...
Israel and Colombia in ferocious diplomatic spat over Hamas war
Colombia’s president likens Israel’s actions to Nazis as Israel accuses Gustavo Petro of putting Jewish lives in danger The Israel-Hamas war has sparked a ferocious...
Canada accuses China fighter jets of ‘reckless’ interception of military plane
Defence minister says Chinese jet came within five meters of Canadian surveillance plane on UN operation over international waters Canada’s defence minister has accused China...
Daniel Noboa wins Ecuador presidential election
Luisa González, handpicked by Rafael Correa as successor, loses to 35-year-old banana heir who promises tough line on violent crime and cocaine trafficking Daniel Noboa,...
Dominica’s mountain chicken frog disappears in ‘fastest extinction ever recorded’
Ecological calamity on the Caribbean island demonstrates how quickly wildlife can be destroyed, scientists say They were once so numerous they were cooked as the...
‘People are dying in the street’: Ecuador election overshadowed by violent crime
The country goes to the polls this weekend after a campaign marked by bloodshed and the assassination of a candidate Ecuadoreans will this weekend choose...
Suspected bomb on Panama City flight actually a diaper, police say
Officials removed passengers on Copa Airlines aircraft bound for Florida and identified diaper as cause after emergency inspection A Copa Airlines aircraft bound for Tampa,...
Revealed: thousands who bought ‘golden passports’ through Dominica’s $1bn scheme
Former Afghan spymaster, convicted millionaire and former Libyan colonel among those who became Dominican citizens Sales of passports soared after the Caribbean state was granted...
Top Mexican court to give new life to controversial Trump-era border policy
‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, which forces people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while US claims are processed, set to be revived The Mexican supreme...
