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  • men in exercise clothes stand outside

    Hegseth warns Cuba against acquiring weapons in visit to Guantánamo Bay

    US defense secretary continues ramp-up of pressure against country including sanctions and devastating oil blockade
  • A woman sits on a park bench, her face obscured by reflections of leaves on a tree

    ‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees

    While the US is shutting the doors to most refugees, those already in the country fear for their future in a rapidly heating world

    • ‘Not just a singer’: Argentinians queue for miles to mourn biggest rockstar most of world has never heard of

    • Trump targeting immigrants from countries hit most by climate shocks

    • The vanishing of Nicolás Maduro: how the former dictator is being erased from Venezuela

  • a plane on a runway

    Former Air Canada pilot charged after allegedly flying without proper license for 16 years

    Geoffrey Wall is alleged to have flown over 900 flights domestically and internationally between 2009 and 2025
  • A close-up photo taken from below of a hammerhead shark with a scalloped edge to the wide front of its head

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

    The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing
  • White military pickup truck with Guardia Nacional on the side and person with firearm standing in the back

    Today in Focus
    The criminal cartels cashing in on the World Cup – podcast

    Football fans are celebrating the tournament coming to Guadalajara. But with a brutal crime syndicate holding sway there, what are the risks for fans – and the government?
    Podcast24:01
  • People play dominoes around a table lit by a cell phone flashlight during a blackout in Havana

    No electricity, no gas, no sleep: Cubans on edge amid endless outages

    Four months into US oil blockade, Cubans see island drained as state electric company fights to provide even a few hours of power a day
  • Roberto Sánchez wearing his trademark sombrero on the campaign trail

    Peru’s discontented voters face straight left-right choice in election runoff

    Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of 1990s leader Alberto, is vying with a congressman to become country’s ninth president in a decade
  • Abelardo de la Espriella in a Colombian national football team jersey speaks into a microphone

    Colombian far-right candidate is latest Trumpian figure in Latin America to ride anti-incumbent wave

    Abelardo de la Espriella, promising an iron-fist approach to crime, leads polls in country’s presidential runoff election
  • people hold a banner that reads 'Unifor a union for everyone'

    ‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart

    Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country
  • A row of green trees line a Rio de Janeiro waterfront park, with Sugar Loaf mountain and airplane visible

    Aviation industry looks skywards as leaders fly in for Rio summit

    Oil tankers may be stuck behind strait of Hormuz, but holding the Iata AGM in Brazil defies warnings of impending shortages
  • People in matching turquoise shirts stand under a canopy while two seated men look at tablets

    Out of the shadows: Venezuela’s opposition emerges from hiding but remains on political sidelines

    Months after Nicolás Maduro’s removal, pro-democracy activists struggle to turn hope into influence
  • beluga whales swimming, as seen through glass in tank

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Canada endorses embattled marine park’s plan to relocate 30 beluga whales

  • people hold signs outside

    Outrage in Argentina after two teen girls murdered as femicide crisis endures

  • A still from CCTV footage of the shooting

    Jamaican police officer charged with murder after woman shot during protest

  • An aerial view of Billings reservoir in São Paulo, showing the Jardim Apurá neighbourhood and Favela da Fumaça.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Good lord, what a smell’: can Brazil’s biggest city save a vital source of water from sewage, bacteria and organised crime?

  • Murder of teenage girl sparks protests across Argentina – video

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  • The age of extinction
    ‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution

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