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
America’s millions of Mexicans without documents live in fear of deportation