Americas
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The fast-spreading blazes of recent weeks have destroyed about 385,000 acres of forest and killed eight people, including a firefighter and two police officers who died on Wednesday
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The world’s largest firefighting aircraft has flown in from the US, alongside help from France, Peru and Mexico, as fires continue to ravage Chilean lands
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President Trump announces ‘immediate’ construction of Mexico border wall after signing executive order
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President said Cuba hopes to continue to repair relations but made it clear that Trump administration should not expect concessions affecting independence
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Chile is facing the worst forest fires it has ever seen, with more than 600 sq miles of land destroyed and thousands of people evacuated from their homes
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Flight recordings suggested there was no equipment malfunction, fuelling intense speculation over the cause of the incident that killed Teori Zavascki
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Two women of Sandy Cove recruited 15 people to walk along major highway in Canada in solidarity with millions who participated around the world
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Highest court to debate if practice violates laws against mistreatment of animals after police tried to disrupt first bullfight in Colombia’s capital city in four years
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Short supply of plant has led to uptake in commercial planting, use of dangerous alternatives and fears of deforestation
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Stephen Schwarzman, who is expected to head the US president’s business advisory council, addresses Canadian concerns after meeting Trudeau in Calgary
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Millions of Americans live in Mexico. Can we continue to coexist?
Aristóteles Sandoval DíazDonald Trump’s reckless plan for a wall risks destroying a relationship that isn’t all just one-way -
At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
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The Colombian port of Buenaventura is home to a small Muslim community who have successively embraced the Nation of Islam, Sunni and Shia interpretations
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Brazilian football team Chapecoense played champions Palmeiras on Sunday in their first match since an air disaster claimed the lives of 71 people, including 19 players and 24 other club members
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Two-year project aims to learn why carcasses have washed up on Argentina’s coast
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Chapecoense drew 2-2 against Brazilian champions Palmeiras in their first match since the air disaster in November in which 19 players were among those who died
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‘Every country is sovereign and able to make its own rules to admit people,’ a government spokesman said after several Canadians were denied US entry
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Donald Trump is actually giving Mexican workers more reason to head to the US, not less
Deadly wildfire razes entire town in Chile: 'Literally like Dante's Inferno'