On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border.
On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, (...)
By Ana María Roura, Daniel Wittenbeg & Blanca Moncada
GUAYAQUIL — Paul has been in a gang for around half his life, since he was 15.
"Things are dangerous right now. Death can come from anywhere," Paul tells us. Small, skinny and about 30 years old, (...)
The decision by Ecuador to forcibly enter the Mexican Embassy on Saturday and arrest a former vice president of the Andean country on corruption charges represents a breach of international law, the UN Secretary-General has said.
In a statement (...)
Argentina and Colombia say they have taken "concrete steps" to improve frayed relations between the two countries after far-right Argentine leader Javier Milei called his left-wing Colombian counterpart a "terrorist murderer" in a CNN interview.
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A Boeing 757 plane lost its nose wheel shortly before taking off at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to US aviation officials.
The Delta Air Lines plane had been preparing to fly to Bogota, Colombia, on Jan. 20 when the (...)
The death toll from a landslide in northwest has risen to at least 33 people with children accounting for most of the victims.
Nineteen others were injured and rescue operations are ongoing.
Landslides had already closed the road connecting the (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an "internal armed conflict" in the country, ordering security forces to "neutralize" several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation.
The decree came shortly (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a state of emergency for the South American nation after a notorious gang leader escaped from prison, heightening security fears as authorities struggle to control the bloodshed of a bloody (...)
Colombia has approved regulations that encourage local communities and indigenous groups to produce energy through renewable sources and sell it to the national grid.
Only 1% of the country's energy comes from alternative sources.
Community leaders, (...)
While some of the world's poorest countries are welcoming refugees "with great hospitality", the international community must match that generosity with far greater solidarity, UN chief António Guterres said on Friday.
Speaking at the closing of the (...)
A stone's throw from the US border and around the corner from Tijuana's seedy red-light district, Afghan families say they feel safe inside a first of its kind Muslim-only shelter.
But they are afraid to wander far outside, traumatised by their (...)
Once the gavel came down in Dubai, the warm words flowed — but will it really have an impact on climate change?
The agreement reached in this glitzy metropolis for the first time nails the role of fossil fuel emissions in driving up temperatures and (...)
A major University of Pennsylvania donor has withdrawn a $100m (£79.3m) grant after a controversial appearance in congress by the school's president.
President Elizabeth Magill met representatives alongside Harvard President Claudine Gay and Sally (...)
France has announced it is banning smoking on beaches as part of a wider campaign to help people quit.
By the first half of 2024, the four-year 'plan anti-tabac' will also see lighting up prohibited outside of schools and in government-owned forests (...)
A former child refugee born in Somalia, who dedicated himself to changing lives through education, has been named as this year's winner of the prestigious UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.
Abdullahi Mire grew up in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in (...)
Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua was crowned the 2023 Miss Universe at the culmination of the annual beauty pageant, which took place on Saturday night in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador. Anntonia Porsild of Thailand placed as first (...)
Colombian football star Luis Díaz has been reunited with his father Luis Manuel Díaz who was released by rebels after holding him hostage for 12 days.
The Liverpool striker and his father cried as they hugged each other for the first time after the (...)
The rebel group holding Luis Diaz's father hostage has demanded "security guarantees" before his release.
The National Liberation Army (ELN) said the ongoing military and police search "will delay the release and increase the risks", Colombian media (...)
Bolivia has cut diplomatic ties with Israel over what it describes as "aggressive and disproportionate" military actions in Gaza.
Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani said Bolivia called for a ceasefire and would be supplying the blockaded Gaza (...)
Businessman Daniel Noboa is to become the youngest president in Ecuador's history, at 35 years old.
Noboa won Sunday's election with 52.3% of the vote, ahead of Luisa González's 47.7%. She conceded defeat and congratulated her rival.
The (...)
Ecuadoreans are voting in the run-off of a presidential election that has been overshadowed by a crime wave which has turned the country into one of the most violent in the region.
The first round of the election was held just days after (...)
US President Joe Biden's administration is to build a section of border wall in southern Texas in an effort to stop rising levels of immigration.
Around 20 miles (32km) will be built in Starr County along its border with Mexico, where officials (...)
Costa Rica's president has ordered a state of emergency, citing a surge of migrants crossing through the country toward the United States.
"The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically," (...)
The Venezuelan government invited journalists to tour the Tocoron Penitentiary Center in Aragua state on Saturday — days after security forces reclaimed control of a prison that has spent many years under the control of gangs.
The Tocoron prison, (...)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called at the UN General Assembly for peace summits to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and between Israel and the Palestinians, so the international community could focus instead on addressing climate (...)