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22 August 2024

  • Several large blue bins contain fake watermelons intended to look like real ones

    Meth worth nearly $6m found in fake watermelons at US-Mexico border

  • Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez Rodríguez delivers her statement in the court on Thursday

    Maduro accused of power grab as top court endorses Venezuela election win

  • An aerial view of Asháninka territory in Peru.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?

  • A man stands by a building that has been severely damaged, with rubble all over the ground

    Caribbean nations still facing humanitarian crisis weeks after Hurricane Beryl destruction

  • Union dispute shuts down Canadian freight rail amid fears for US trade

  • Today in Focus
    Venezuela and the president who won’t concede defeat - podcast

21 August 2024

  • Workers gather in a huddle inside of a cobalt refinery facility

    US military announces $20m grant to build cobalt refinery in Canada

    Pentagon investment would make North America’s first cobalt sulfate refinery as US looks to diversify supply chain
  • Illustration of a woolly mammoth

    Prehistoric humans may have stuck pikes in ground to kill mammoths, say experts

    People of ancient Clovis culture could have impaled huge animals on pikes rather than throwing spears, finds study
  • The view of the Parana River, in front of Rosario City, with four ships waiting to be loaded with grain

    Mpox: Argentina quarantines cargo ship over suspected case of virus

    The ship was near the port of Rosario and authorities were alerted that a crew member was showing ‘cyst-like lesions’

20 August 2024

  • A still from the Canada Conservative party of a man driving through suburbs.

    Canada’s Conservatives criticised over ‘our home’ video featuring scenes from US, UK and Serbia

  • Brianna Randall at the helm of the Sail Like A Mother team sailing boat on the 2024 Race to Alaska (R2AK).

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Three women in a boat: how girl (and pedal) power helped us finish a 750-mile race to Alaska

  • White adult polar bear and white cub look at camera from among brown rocks.

    Collision course: polar bears forced into people’s path by climate crisis

  • Thames Water cover

    Canadian export agency ‘nursing losses’ after lending $1bn to Thames Water

19 August 2024

  • Hurricane Ernesto moves on in the Atlantic Ocean after making landfall on Bermuda in a composite satellite image August 17, 2024. NOAA/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    Fierce seas in US north-east as Ernesto regains hurricane strength over Atlantic

  • A soldier holding a gun stands in front of a mural saying 'Peace & love, we stand for a safer Jamaica'

    ‘Wherever you have drugs, you have guns’: why is there an epidemic of violence in the Caribbean?

17 August 2024

  • Musk in a suit on a stage.

    Elon Musk says X will pull operations from Brazil after ‘censorship orders’

    Judge Alexandre de Moraes had ordered X to block certain accounts as he investigated fake news and hate messages
  • waves crash into the shore of a beach

    Hurricane Ernesto pummels Bermuda with 35ft waves and high winds

    Category 1 hurricane described as ‘rare event’ in area as officials warn of severe flooding and storm surges
  • Man works on pink and cream house as hurricane approaches

    Hurricane Ernesto bears down on Bermuda amid deadly flood warnings

    Atlantic island territory, which has seen fewer than a dozen hurricanes since 1850, braces for dangerous storm surge

16 August 2024

  • Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro holds up his hand in front of flags, with Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looking on

    Lula criticizes Maduro’s ‘authoritarian’ regime amid Venezuela election dispute

  • A firefighter is silhouetted hosing down a tree against flames burning in a forest.

    Hotter than ever
    ‘The place I love is in flames’: the people living and working in extreme heat

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