Americas
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Citizens everywhere are shaping government policies, tackling corruption and even improving air quality
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Opposition supporters want president Nicolás Maduro to call off a vote for a new constitution which they say is an attempt to consolidate his power
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Hotels and local government in Cancun will pay premiums, and insurance industry will pay out if the reef is damaged by storms
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Since Obama ended the ‘wet-foot, dry-foot’ preferential treatment, 1,000 Cuban migrants have gathered in Nuevo Laredo to try to gain US citizenship
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From squats to shops selling logger boots, from clapped-out wooden houses to neon hotspots, photographer Fred Herzog blazed a trail for colour as he captured half a century of change in the Canadian metropolis
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After fraught debate, senate votes to legalize abortion when a woman’s life is in danger, when a fetus is unviable and when a pregnancy results from rape
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Users will be able to purchase five-gram packets for $6.50, four years after marijuana was legalized in the country
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Unemployment and social instability threaten unwelcome return to the past in recession-hit country once seen as a model for developing economies
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In the year since President Enrique Peña Nieto signed an anti-corruption system into law, the government and its allies have undermined it, activists say
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Lawyers in Canada are frantically working to bring four refugees and their children over, amid concerns that they face grave reprisals over their actions
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Move represents a tiny proportion of world production, but could embolden others to rethink their commitment to cuts
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Specialists will inject chemicals to neutralize explosive element after workers uncover ball believed to be fired by British forces during Seven Years’ War
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Mob attacked Juan Jiménez Ninaja and José Díaz Ninaja, who had collected seaweed in region for years, amid debate over surge in migration
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Australian firefighters called in to help as blazes burning across western province are expected to worsen
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Canadian prime minister comes face to face with boy named by his Syrian refugee parents to thank their adopted country
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Five employees say ‘racist, sexist, homophobic and discriminatory behaviour has become accepted culture’ at Canadian Security Intelligence Service
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Some came to Mexico fearing they would find more violence. But instead they’ve found a new home and a second chance
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Charitable donations and volunteers from abroad are supporting Haitian orphanages where children are vulnerable to abuse, a report finds
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Move comes after Gabriel Resources sues government for $4.4bn over failed bid to establish goldmine in Apuseni mountains
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Two months after government says Zika emergency at an end, water shortages and weak health system trigger fears of fresh outbreak
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Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One, the president said he envisions 700 to 900 miles of ‘see-through wall’ (650 miles of border fence already exist)
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Ontario judge denies request by US solider’s widow and injured former solider to freeze former Guantánamo detainee’s assets ahead of hearing in the fall
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The former US president and his wife, Rosalynn, are in the middle of a week-long project building houses in various Canadian cities
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vows to run for highest office again in 2018 and says at Workers’ party headquarters: ‘They haven’t taken me out of the game’
British business chief warns against swift US trade deal