Latin America

‘Why me?’ – six extraordinary stories from sole survivors of plane crashes after man survives India Air disaster
Terence McCoy: Jokes or crimes? Brazilian comedian’s eight-year jail term provokes free-speech debate
Miguel Uribe shooting: Surgery on Colombian senator ‘went well’, wife reveals
Colombian presidential candidate shot and wounded at rally in Bogota

Eruptions from sun taking out SpaceX Starlink satellites, Nasa says
‘River guardians’ on a mission to save way of life and stop illegal gold mining
Ruth Medjber: Ireland needs to wake up to beauty and value of street art – and tell councils to scrap ridiculous planning rules
Obituary: Sebastiao Salgado, award-winning Brazilian photographer and social documentarian
Colombian gangs are using a deadly ‘zombie’ drug to prey on gullible tourists
Global red alert issued over record forest loss
Brazil hit with trade bans from China after country’s first bird flu outbreak
Beauty influencer shot dead in her salon while livestreaming on TikTok
US Supreme Court wrestles with move to end birthright citizenship
‘A friend of Ireland’ – church leaders welcome appointment of Pope Leo XIV and hope he will visit soon

Latin America

‘Why me?’ – six extraordinary stories from sole survivors of plane crashes after man survives India Air disaster

Terence McCoy: Jokes or crimes? Brazilian comedian’s eight-year jail term provokes free-speech debate

Miguel Uribe shooting: Surgery on Colombian senator ‘went well’, wife reveals

Colombian presidential candidate shot and wounded at rally in Bogota

Eruptions from sun taking out SpaceX Starlink satellites, Nasa says

‘River guardians’ on a mission to save way of life and stop illegal gold mining

Ruth Medjber: Ireland needs to wake up to beauty and value of street art – and tell councils to scrap ridiculous planning rules

Obituary: Sebastiao Salgado, award-winning Brazilian photographer and social documentarian

Colombian gangs are using a deadly ‘zombie’ drug to prey on gullible tourists

Global red alert issued over record forest loss

Brazil hit with trade bans from China after country’s first bird flu outbreak

Beauty influencer shot dead in her salon while livestreaming on TikTok

US Supreme Court wrestles with move to end birthright citizenship

‘A friend of Ireland’ – church leaders welcome appointment of Pope Leo XIV and hope he will visit soon

Psychiatrist testifies she has no regrets over treatment of Diego Maradona

Donald Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport gang suspects is illegal, judge rules

Web Summit signs new five-year deal with Rio de Janeiro

Many Argentinians felt slighted, but why did Francis never visit his homeland after he became Pope in 2013?

US deports more people to notorious El Salvador prison despite legal fight

US closes Digicel corruption probe after Donald Trump executive order

Families tell of torment as death toll reaches 221 in Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse

Killing of scientist found dismembered in Colombia ‘may have been a case of mistaken identity’

LATEST | Death toll nears 200 in Dominican Republic nightclub tragedy

At least 28 killed in Dominican Republic as nightclub roof collapses

US judge rules man wrongly deported to El Salvador must be returned

Promises of high-paying work used to lure public into ranch where they are forced to join Mexican cartel

Investors see the Argentine peso on the verge of devaluation ahead of IMF deal

Astronomers discover space ‘tornadoes’ at the centre of Earth’s Milky Way galaxy

Mexico’s ‘ranch of horrors’ probe ‘flawed’, says official

Mexico City bans bullfighting, sparking fury and celebration

Peruvian fisherman survives 95 days lost at sea living off birds, cockroaches and turtles

US government defies judge’s order to stop deportations of gang suspects to El Salvador

Flooding in Argentinian city leaves at least 16 dead

Trump hails 'reclaiming' of Panama canal after BlackRock-led group's deal to buy stake

Electricity returns to most of Chile after sweeping blackout

Tribesman who returned to isolated region in Amazon believed to be ‘asking for fire’

Two passengers dead after small plane crashes into bus on Sao Paulo avenue

Angry Trump announces sweeping tariffs to punish Colombia for blocking migrant deportation flights

Ancient mystery solved as Incas’ hidden tunnel system found beneath city of Cusco in Peru

‘It’s an insult’: Statue of Spanish conqueror Pizarro returned to Lima city centre

At least 80 dead in Colombia bloodshed after failed peace talks

‘Since my childhood, I have known the darker and more difficult side of existence’ – an extract from Pope Francis’s memoir ‘Hope’

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro sworn in for third term as US offers $25m for his arrest

Venezuelan opposition leader arrested after anti-government protest

Three women die after eating poisonous homemade Christmas cake at family gathering in Brazil, daughter-in-law arrested

Brazil bridge collapse death toll rises to nine, with eight people still missing

Mexico tests app allowing migrants to send alert if detention in US imminent

Brazil's president discharged from hospital following brain bleed surgery

Brazilian president in intensive care after brain surgery following complaints of headache

Colombian drug lord who underwent major plastic surgery reportedly free after El Chapo deal

Haiti gang leader accused of killing elderly people in ‘revenge’ for son’s death

Colombian hitwoman known as ‘The Doll’ arrested over wave of gang hits

Brazilian police indict former president over alleged 2022 coup attempt

Brazilian president Lula launches alliance to fight world hunger at G20 summit

Man held in Peru over bid to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas

Masses flee homes and neighbourhoods in Haiti as gangs make violent push for power during political turmoil

Trio charged over death of former One Direction star Liam Payne in Argentina

Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales says shots fired at car as political tensions flare

Explainer: What's on the agenda at the COP16 nature summit in Colombia?

Millions in Cuba still without power following days of blackout

Liam Payne’s father arrives in Argentina after singer’s death

911 call audio by Buenos Aires hotel manager prior to Liam Payne's death

Mexico’s ex-security chief jailed for 38 years in US for taking cartel bribes

Venom from centipede-like creature in flooded Mayan caves could hold the key to treating epilepsy

Mexican mayor ‘decapitated’ by drug gangs six days into job

‘My biggest gift to my father is to continue to tell his story’ –daughter of Irish priest Pat Rice who was kidnapped and tortured in Argentina

Argentina vows to regain ownership of the Falkland Islands after Britain inks deal to give away one of its overseas territories

Argentina wants ‘full sovereignty’ of Falklands after return of Chagos Islands

Pope Francis expels 10 from Peruvian movement with ‘sadistic’ leader who sodomised recruits

Category 3 Hurricane John hits Mexico coast with risk of catastrophic flooding

Venezuela arrests six foreign nationals over alleged plot to destabilise country

Former Peru president who was convicted of human rights abuses dies aged 86

Deforestation theory for wipeout of Rapa Nui people of Easter Island is thrown into doubt by new study

Sacrificed ‘frozen’ Inca child in Chile did not die peacefully as previously thought, study finds

Fake watermelons stuffed with drugs seized at US-Mexico border

Hurricane Ernesto leaves hundreds of thousands without power in Puerto Rico

Brazilian plane crash: Families of victims gather in Sao Paulo

‘A betrayal in the highest ranks’ led to US capture of cartel heads

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the country will ban X from the country for ten days