Americas

Hurricane Dorian made its third landfall as a Category 5 storm with 165 mph winds, slamming Grand Bahama Island overnight. The storm is moving extremely slowly at 1 mph to ...

A 7-year-old boy became the first fatality of monster hurricane Dorian as it crawled over the Abaco Islands ...

McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas—Hurricane Dorian shut down some hotels in the northern Bahamas and forced some evacuations Saturday ...

BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombian President Ivan Duque offered a nearly $1 million reward for the arrest of the top peace ...

RECIFE, Brazil—Brazil has been affected by a wave of fires in the Amazon region since the beginning of ...

At least 23 people were killed and another 13 people were injured during an attack on a bar ...

News Analysis With the IMF’s $56 billion loan issued to Argentina less than a year ago nearing default, ...

An attack on a bar in Mexico’s Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos killed 23 people and injured 13 ...

Millions of Contigo Kids Cleanable Water Bottles have been recalled because a piece on some of the bottles ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Tens of thousands of Argentines jammed streets in the capital and other cities Saturday to show ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle ...

RECIFE, Brazil—Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro has been nominated by his father, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, to head the ...

HUMAITA, Brazil— There are no lights in sight but the night sky glows a dusky yellow, for the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—Brandishing a fake gun, a man on Aug. 20 took dozens of hostages on a bus ...

A pastor in southwestern Mexico was shot dead during Sunday service in Oaxaca state on Aug. 19, according ...

TEGUCIGALPA—A Honduran court convicted the wife of former President Porfirio Lobo on graft charges, including siphoning funds from ...

A Sao Paulo state court convicted Fernando Haddad, who was the runner-up in Brazil's presidential elections last year, ...

More than three dozen people were taken hostage over the four-hour hijacking. None of the hostages were injured.

BOGOTA, Colombia—The regime of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro lashed out at the country's opposition-run congress this week by prosecuting ...

BUENOS AIRES—The Argentine peso currency crashed following news that populist left-wing Peronist opposition leader Alberto Fernández was leading in ...

GUATEMALA CITY—Guatemala's Electoral Tribunal on Aug. 11 declared center-right businessman Alejandro Giammattei of the Vamos party winner of ...

The Colombian government’s failure to fill a void left by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who ...

WASHINGTON—As the United States tightens the economic screws on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, the administration is figuring out ...

A cruise ship worker appeared to wave a fake giant hand at a couple who missed the scheduled ...

Three tourists died while on vacation in the Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean, authorities said, and they ...

BOGOTA, Colombia—The latest U.S. sanctions against the Maduro regime may cause some of Venezuela’s biggest trading partners to cease doing business with ...

BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombia will give citizenship to more than 24,000 children born to Venezuelan migrant parents in Colombia, to ...