Argentina votes on Sunday in one of the most open presidential elections for decades. The effects of a deep economic crisis have proved fertile ground for an unorthodox far-right front-runner, with wild hair, big sideburns and a totally radical approach to ruling the country. Javier Milei...
The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat. The Mamiraua Institute, a research group at Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology...
Venezuela’s opposition is holding a primary to choose a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Opposition parties have organised the poll without any help from the National Electoral Council, which is headed by a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro. Mr Maduro, who has been...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved the deployment of international forces led by Kenya to curb escalating gang violence in Haiti. The Caribbean country of more than 11 million people, which had requested international assistance more than a year ago to curb the rising...
Argentines have been choosing a new president in an election rocked by the emergence as front-runner of anti-establishment populist and self-styled “libertarian” Javier Milei. Mr Milei is an outspoken right-wing economist whose “shock-jock” style and aggressive...
