EPABolivia's government has rejected claims by the former president, Evo Morales, that it ordered a targeted attack on him. Morales says his car came under sustained gunfire on Sunday...

Two former police officers have been jailed in Brazil for the murder of Marielle Franco, a prominent left-wing politician killed in a drive-by shooting in 2018.Anderson Gomes, Franco's driver,...

Getty ImagesUN biodiversity summits happen every two years - this year in Cali, ColombiaScientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the UN...

An armed group has taken control of a military facility near the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, the country's military says, and is holding some soldiers captive.The army had started...

Aerial footage shows a massive column of smoke, as a fire engulfed a shopping centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The blaze spread across 18,000 square metres and destroyed more...

ReutersDiana Mondino has had to bid farewell to the foreign ministryArgentina's president, Javier Milei, has sacked his foreign minister, Diana Mondino, after the country voted in favour of lifting...

Rescue workers in Argentina were scrambling to reach people trapped under debris after a hotel collapsed, with one person confirmed dead.The 10-storey Dubrovnik hotel, in the coastal city of...

Getty ImagesThere are no pictures of the city but it had pyramid temples similar to this one in nearby CalakmulA huge Mayan city has been discovered centuries after it...

Getty ImagesFormer President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrates with successor Claudia SheumbaumAfter handing the reins of power to Claudia Sheinbaum on 1 October, Mexico’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López...

Getty ImagesThe dam collapse in 2015 destroyed many villages and engulfed homesThe mining giants BHP and Vale have signed a deal with the Brazilian government to pay nearly $30bn...

BBCYusely Perez says she was forced to collect firewood to burn for cookingCuba has endured one of its toughest weeks in years after a nationwide blackout which left around...

Mexican police have arrested a man accused of murdering a Roman Catholic priest and human rights campaigner in the southern state of Chiapas. Father Marcelo Pérez was killed on...