Hunger threatens to soar to devastating levels in 25 countries in the coming months due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization have warned.
The greatest concentration of need is in (...)
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he will nominate US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan to be the US ambassador to Russia.
If confirmed by the Senate, Sullivan would be the top US diplomat in Russia at a particularly challenging time (...)
More than 125 migrant mothers and children have sued the U.S. government, claiming the Trump administration has violated the rights of asylum-seekers through the arbitrary and capricious implementation of a virtual asylum ban at the southern (...)
Mexico took issue on Thursday with a US Supreme Court ruling granting a Trump administration request to fully enforce a new rule curtailing asylum applications by immigrants at the US-Mexico border.
The court on Wednesday said that so long as the (...)
Guatemala's Congress voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to approve a temporary state of siege in six northeastern provinces, a measure designed to tighten security after several soldiers were killed by suspected drug traffickers.
The initiative passed (...)
Argentine and Chile renewed their combative rivalry in Los Angeles on Thursday in a game that was peppered with 10 yellow cards but with both teams missing key players and fielding experimental lineups neither was able to break a 0-0 (...)
Hollywood star Richard Gere on Saturday called on the Italian government to stop "demonizing people" and instead help migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than a week.
Gere, who visited the Open (...)
The two contenders to be Guatemala's next president questioned on Saturday the validity of a deal struck by the country's government with the United States that aims to curb the flow of migrants north from Central America.
US President Donald Trump (...)
A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule that aimed to bar almost all asylum applications at the US-Mexico border.
US District Judge Jon Tigar in the Northern District of California (...)
The Trump administration on Wednesday turned back an initial legal challenge to a new rule that bars almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the US-Mexican border when a federal judge in Washington rejected a request to block it.
But the (...)
Honduras upset El Salvador 4-0 at the Gold Cup in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a result that sent Curacao through to the quarterfinals at the expense of El Salvador.
Three superb second-half goals in the space of 16 minutes earned Honduras their first (...)
Jurien Gaari scored a stoppage time equalizer as Curacao held Jamaica 1-1 at the Gold Cup in Los Angeles on Tuesday and booked a surprise quarterfinal for the tiny Caribbean nation.
Curacao had a nervous wait after the early match in Group C, but (...)
US Democrats in the House of Representatives on Friday proposed reinstating hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that was cut off by the Trump administration because thousands of their citizens sought asylum (...)
Turkey-based striker Dever Orgill scored twice as Jamaica opened their CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign with a 3-2 victory over Honduras on Monday.
Orgill, who plays for Turkish Super Lig Club Ankaragucu, pounced in the 15th and 41st minutes to set the (...)
Mexican officials detained nearly 800 undocumented migrants in eastern Mexico in four trucks on Saturday, the government said, in one of the biggest swoops against illegal immigration in recent months.
Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) (...)
Brazil will start without Arthur in their lineup for Friday's Copa America opener against Bolivia but his midfield partner Casemiro said he was hoping for something special on a return to the ground where he made his name.
Barcelona playmaker Arthur (...)
Brazil expect to win every tournament they play, especially at home, but they go into next week's Copa America without their talisman Neymar and lacking some of the sparkle that has long been their stock in trade.
They have not lost since Belgium (...)
Gabriel Jesus got a brace and David Neres chalked up his first international goal as Brazil overran a hapless Honduras 7-0 in a pre-Copa America friendly on Sunday.
Manchester City striker Jesus opened the scoring after six minutes with a header and (...)
Brazil have called up Chelsea forward Willian to replace the injured Neymar for this month's Copa America, the Brazilian Football Confederation said on Friday.
Neymar withdrew from the squad on Thursday after rupturing ligaments in his right ankle (...)
Four Americans and a Canadian pilot were killed when a small plane went down off the coast of Roatan island in Honduras, officials said Sunday.
According to AP, armed Forces spokesman Jose Domingo Meza confirmed the nationalities of those who died (...)
The United States is lifting economic sanctions on a former Venezuelan general who turned against President Nicolas Maduro in an action it hopes will lead other Maduro military allies to follow suit, Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday.
An (...)
US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who oversaw President Donald Trump's bitterly contested immigration policies during her tumultuous 16-month tenure, resigned on Sunday amid a surge in the number of migrants at the border with (...)
A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three (...)
A group of Honduran migrants entered southern Mexico on Friday, joining more than 1,000 people who departed Central America in recent days headed to the United States and putting to the test Mexico's vows to guarantee the safe and orderly flow of (...)
Around 2,000 Honduran migrants, part of a
caravan of Central Americans heading to the US, were on Saturday on
their way back to their home country with the help of authorities, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said, according to dpa.
Another 500 (...)
