Americas
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New policy would allow the government to keep parents and children in custody separately, to deter mothers from migrating to the US with their children
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After the fires killed 11 and devastated vast swaths of land in January many are asking if subsidised timber plantations are to blame
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Scientists believe they have found fossils dating back at least 3.8bn years – and they might even help us find life on other planets
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Colombian singers Shakira and Carlos Vives have been accused in a Spanish court of copying the award-winning song from a Cuban singer
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Hernán Giraldo Serna, one of the leaders of a rightwing force that escaped trial for crimes against humanity to face drug charges in the US, oversaw 270 murders
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Recent silence about disputed territory is broken as Mauricio Macri’s government points out regional agreement forbidding UK military stopovers
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Sardar Ahmad, Fulbright scholar from Afghanistan who has lived in the US and is now a Canadian citizen, held for five hours at US border
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Construction for Donald Trump’s proposed border wall hit a financial roadblock over low ‘existing funds and resources’ in the homeland security department
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Veracruz governor links attacks to battle between drug gangs as local media reports sign near bodies saying: ‘You want a war, you’ll get a war’
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A much-loved hippopotamus called Gustavito has died after being attacked in the national zoo of El Salvador
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The Honduran environmental activist’s killing a year ago bears the hallmarks of a ‘well-planned operation designed by military intelligence’ says legal source
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Locals mourned the hippo, who was apparently attacked with metal bars and knives, through social media and by leaving flowers at the national zoo
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Heavy rain during usually dry summer months causes landslides and flooding, leaving three dead and 19 missing
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Government faces calls to rip up US-Canada asylum agreement as refugees have been crossing in waist-deep snow since Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Play VideoVenezuelan skier Adrien Solano participates at the Nordic world ski championships in Finland on Friday, having never trained on snow
Canada increases resources at US border to handle influx of asylum-seekers