It is the latest blow to an already fraught election run-up, where Socialist, Nicolas Maduro, will seek a third six-year term amid accusations of opposition harassment by an increasingly authoritarian regime.
A new report lays bare the scale of the HIV/Aids pandemic, showing 630,000 worldwide deaths last year – more than double the 2025 target.
Brazil’s President said: ‘I was scared by Maduro’s statements that if he loses the election there will be a bloodbath.’
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sees synergy between the mainland’s interests and his country’s infrastructure gap as he pursues tangible results.
Gangs control 80 per cent of Port-au-Prince, and they have been blamed for killing or injuring more than 1,500 people.
Gang-busting President Nayib Bukele’s government has rounded up more than 80,000 presumed gangsters, with children and teenagers accounting for some 3,000 of those, according to the HRW report.
Fujimori, who governed with an iron fist and fled Peru amid corruption scandals and rights violations, was released from prison in December.
Paola Banuelos’ death has reverberated in Mexico, where at least two women are killed in gender-related violence every day.
William Stampfl was reported missing in June 2002, aged 59, when an avalanche buried his climbing party on the mountain Huascaran.
Recent arrivals in California meet scepticism, uncertainty and other Chinese immigrants who can help them start new lives.
The self-styled ‘world’s coolest dictator’ warned that he was ‘not playing around’ and that he expected prices to come down ‘by tomorrow’.
The ex-president has been accused of trying to sneak in jewellery worth US$3 million into the country and selling two luxury watches.
Buenos Aires’ Beijing ambassador, Marcelo Suarez Salvia, says the two countries are navigating towards ‘promising horizon’ of opportunities.
The Category 4 storm has left a trail of destruction in its path across the Caribbean, killing at least seven people as it has strengthened rapidly.
At least 3 people were killed in Grenada, 1 in St Vincent and the Grenadines, and 1 in Venezuela, officials said. The rare early-season hurricane is expected to pass near Jamaica on Wednesday.
Beryl is both the earliest Category 5 storm in the Atlantic basin on record, and only the second to hit in July after Hurricane Emily in 2005.
Bolivian President Luis Arce denied that he staged a dramatic coup against his own administration in an attempt to improve his popularity.
Riot police kept close watch over government buildings a day after army chief Zuniga deployed troops and tanks to the heart of the capital.
Easter Island, a Chilean territory also known as Rapa Nui, is home to hundreds of giant stone heads that visitors can learn about – when they are not hiking, biking, snorkelling or going for a drive, that is.
Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz and two military leaders were arrested after President Luis Arce condemned a ‘coup’ attempt against the government.
Juan Orlando Hernandez, 55, will likely die behind bars for engaging in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that sent massive amounts of cocaine to the United States.
The tech giant signed the deal as Peru’s President Dina Boluarte visited its headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen.
Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza will succeed Juergen Stock of Germany to lead Interpol from 2025 to 2030.
A lawsuit challenging Chinese state-owned firm Cosco’s status as the exclusive operator of the US$1.3 billion facility has been dropped.
Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday held a departure ceremony for 400 officers who will be the first contingent to deploy to the Caribbean nation.
