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  • A close-up photo taken from below of a hammerhead shark with a scalloped edge to the wide front of its head

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

    The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing
  • White military pickup truck with Guardia Nacional on the side and person with firearm standing in the back

    Today in Focus
    The criminal cartels cashing in on the World Cup – podcast

    Football fans are celebrating the tournament coming to Guadalajara. But with a brutal crime syndicate holding sway there, what are the risks for fans – and the government?
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  • a man in a baseball uniform stands with his hands on his hips

    Two US pilots killed after plane bound to pick up former MLB star crashes

    Plane on way to pick up Yadier Molina and his family crashed in Dominican Republic, killing pilot and co-pilot
  • People play dominoes around a table lit by a cell phone flashlight during a blackout in Havana

    No electricity, no gas, no sleep: Cubans on edge amid endless outages

    Four months into US oil blockade, Cubans see island drained as state electric company fights to provide even a few hours of power a day
  • Roberto Sánchez wearing his trademark sombrero on the campaign trail

    Peru’s discontented voters face straight left-right choice in election runoff

    Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of 1990s leader Alberto, is vying with a congressman to become country’s ninth president in a decade
  • Abelardo de la Espriella in a Colombian national football team jersey speaks into a microphone

    Colombian far-right candidate is latest Trumpian figure in Latin America to ride anti-incumbent wave

    Abelardo de la Espriella, promising an iron-fist approach to crime, leads polls in country’s presidential runoff election
  • people hold a banner that reads 'Unifor a union for everyone'

    ‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart

    Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country
  • A row of green trees line a Rio de Janeiro waterfront park, with Sugar Loaf mountain and airplane visible

    Aviation industry looks skywards as leaders fly in for Rio summit

    Oil tankers may be stuck behind strait of Hormuz, but holding the Iata AGM in Brazil defies warnings of impending shortages
  • People in matching turquoise shirts stand under a canopy while two seated men look at tablets

    Out of the shadows: Venezuela’s opposition emerges from hiding but remains on political sidelines

    Months after Nicolás Maduro’s removal, pro-democracy activists struggle to turn hope into influence
  • Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel waving a flag

    US imposes new sanctions on Cuban president and Castro family members

  • beluga whales swimming, as seen through glass in tank

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Canada endorses embattled marine park’s plan to relocate 30 beluga whales

  • people hold signs outside

    Outrage in Argentina after two teen girls murdered as femicide crisis endures

  • A still from CCTV footage of the shooting

    Jamaican police officer charged with murder after woman shot during protest

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Good lord, what a smell’: can Brazil’s biggest city save a vital source of water from sewage, bacteria and organised crime?

  • Murder of teenage girl sparks protests across Argentina – video

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  • The age of extinction
    ‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution

  • The long read
    I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began

  • a hand holds a phone showing a picture of a young man

    Dead but deportable: US immigration judge signed order to eject teen murder victim

    North Carolina judge said Levi Mendez-Maldonado failed to show up in court – even after being told he had died in 2024
  • Mexican Army and Federal police patrol a crime scene in Navolato.

    Kidnappings, threats and ‘protection fees’: how can Mexico confront rise in deadly extortion?

    With corrupt police on the streets and shopkeepers forced to pay gangs, president has vowed to tackle crime that now affects all parts of society
  • Aerial view of naked women forming a circle in dark water, creating white splashes with their feet

    Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘Once naked, they formed a circle. The kicking and screaming occurred naturally’

    Taken shortly after a spate of femicides in Peru, this image by the photographer Ana Elisa Sotelo captures a moment of sisterhood and solidarity
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