Americas
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'It's Prozac in city form': Canadians on the issues facing their citiesThroughout Guardian Canada week, current and former residents shared their perspectives on life in Canadian cities, from street hockey and multiculturalism to the challenges of urban sprawl and unaffordable housing
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You thought TTIP was dead? With Brexit we’ll get the same thing, on steroidsThe most extreme free-market fundamentalists in Europe are now in the driver’s seat in Britain. That’s what ‘taking back control’ looks like in practice
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US investigating allegations Honduran military had hitlist of activists to targetState department review of Guardian allegations comes as a group of Congress members renew call to suspend all US aid to Honduran police and military
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Calgary versus the car: the city that declared war on urban sprawlCalgary is like any other Canadian city that grew outwards, not upwards. But led by progressive mayor Naheed Nenshi, the oil-rich, car-friendly city has become an unlikely leader in the battle to limit urban sprawl
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Honduras confirms murder of another member of Berta Cáceres’s activist groupFour months after the assassination of award-winning environmentalist Berta Cáceres, an indigenous activist and member of her organization has been killed
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Brazil condemns anthropologists' calls for forced contact with isolated tribesUS professors say ‘controlled contact is the only possible strategy for protecting these people’, but government’s open letter insists ‘leave them alone’
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Brazil’s reviled lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha resigns in tearsCunha, an ultra-conservative evangelical being investigated for corruption, gave a typically abrasive speech: ‘It is well known that the house is brainless’
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Former Nazi death squad member wins victory to stay in CanadaHelmut Oberlander, 92, came to Canada in 1954 and the government, which bans those who took part in war crimes, has revoked his citizenship three times
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Colombian Farc rebel unit rejects peace deal, saying it will not disarmArmando Rios First Front calls on other units to join in the ‘fight for the taking of power by the people for the people’
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Brazil’s suspended president denounces indictment as a 'political farce'Dilma Rousseff has told the Senate commission considering whether to permanently remove her from office that the case against her is soft ‘coup’
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Pablo Escobar's brother asks to 'review' season two of Narcos for accuracyRoberto Escobar has submitted a ‘formal, friendly request’ to Netflix to ‘determine the validity’ of the Golden Globe-nominated drug war drama
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The Colombian drug lord’s legacy is paralleled by the environmental catastrophe unleashed by his escaped petsHas Pablo Escobar come back as a hippo?
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Venezuelans storm Colombia border city in search of food and basic goodsFive hundred women pour into markets of Cúcuta to buy toilet paper, flour and other goods as economic crisis in Venezuela deepens
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Man punches a bear in Ontario and walks away with only scratchesRick Nelson, who spent years as a featherweight fighter, was walking his dog when a cub appeared in his path – followed closely by its 320lb mother
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Brazilian soldiers begin patrolling Rio Olympic venues amid rising crime ratesSecurity operation of 85,000 personnel deployed month before summer games to ease concerns over violence, police strikes and economic and political turmoil
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Ottawa shuts down kids' lemonade stand over permit, sparking criticismIt wasn’t long after two young sisters set up shop on a grassy roadside in Ottawa that a federal officer told them to ‘pack up and leave’
Resilient cities Rio mayor Eduardo Paes: 'It's not the best moment to be in the eyes of the world'