The Colombian navy has intercepted a semi-submersible vessel packed with cocaine in the Pacific Ocean, as part of an operation in which hundreds of arrests have been made.It said...

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has appeared to contradict President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that the two have struck a deal to stop migration to the US border.After a phone call...

Getty ImagesUnaccompanied children detained at the border are first processed by Customs and Border Patrol before being handed over to other US authorities. Donald Trump's incoming border tsar, Tom...

A left-wing former history teacher, Yamandú Orsi, has won the presidential election in Uruguay. Orsi beat Álvaro Delgado, the candidate for the governing conservative coalition, by more than three...

BBCBiologist Shanika Spencer was delighted when a test using sargassum to fuel a car was successfulWhen large swathes of invasive seaweed started washing up on Caribbean beaches in 2011,...

Police in Brazil have arrested five people suspected of planning to kill Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shortly before he was sworn in as president.Four of those detained on...

Thousands of migrants from Central America left southern Mexico on 20 November, aiming to reach the US before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. The group hopes to...

Getty ImagesPolice have been investigating whether Bolsonaro incited a failed coup after losing the 2022 electionEx-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies have been formally accused...

Getty ImagesThe land is in Texas' Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley, on the border with the Mexican state of TamaulipasTexas authorities say they are prepared to offer...

The humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended its operations in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, following a violent attack on its staff and the alleged killing of...

Bentancur's offence carried a punishment of a six to 12-match ban and, in its written reasons,, external the FA said the player "asked for the matter to be dealt...

Brazil's first lady has sworn at billionaire Elon Musk at an event ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.While advocating for tougher social media regulation on a...