“We’ve been fighting for more than 10 years to get the truth about what happened to my father acknowledged,” says Rosa María Payá. Ms Payá, 34, never had any doubt that the car crash which killed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá and fellow activist Harold Cepero in 2012 was...
The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the coast of Uruguay, where the Graf Spee had been scuttled in 1939 to stop it falling into...
An Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin. Bella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week. But when mourners attending her wake heard her knocking on her coffin, she...
Two men have been arrested after 1.6 tonnes of cocaine disguised as charcoal with a street value of more than £120m was discovered. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the Class A drug was found when Border Force officers searched a container carrying 800 sacks of charcoal arriving into...
Peru’s health minister, Rosa Gutiérrez, has resigned as the country struggles to control a dengue fever outbreak. Dengue fever is an infection spread by mosquitoes, most common in tropical and subtropical climates. The outbreak has caused record-breaking deaths and infections, with...
