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cuba and russia agree new economic ties as us...

Credits Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Cuba's signature 1950s US-made cars could...

quebec to launch world s biggest basic income...

Credits effect Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Canada has led the way in basic income...

sebastian pinera: new president will take chile to...

Description Sebastian Pinera celebrates being returned to power in Chile Credits MARTIN...

cuba s communists bar alternative candidates...

whether CUBA were a democracy,the municipal elections that start on November 26th would open a...

brazil s election is now up for grabs

VILA JOANINHA,on the edge of Diadema, a suburb of São Paulo, and is the kind of gritty...

a macabre mexican radio show goes off the air

What to wear when listening to the radioAS MIDNIGHT neared,five nights a week Mexicans with a taste...

argentina s gamble on economic gradualism is...

AT THE height of summer,workers bundled up in blue snowsuits are hauling boxes of ice lollies in and...

cuba bids goodbye to the revolutionary generation

RAFAEL is approximately to finish his degree at Havana University,but his mind is elsewhere. The...

explosion heard near missing submarine

Description The search continues for a lost Argentinian submarine with 44 crew on board ...

canada heads to the polls in closest election in...

Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau has surged into the lead in recent weeksTrudeau hoping to oust...

the fight to save european dialects in brazil

THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish corridor in Serafina Corrêa,a small town in the...

what the victory of centre right sebastian pinera...

FOR weeks Chileans had been bracing for a nail-biter. After an inconclusive first round of the...

jair bolsonaro hopes to be brazil s donald trump

IN THE arrivals corridor of Belém’s airport the excitement is palpable. Hundreds of supporters of...

uruguay s record setting economic growth streak

AFTER long recessions,Brazil and Argentina still cheer when pleasurable economic news comes out. In...

measuring canada s cannabis economy

whether AN agency of your government asked whether you had recently smoked a joint and how much you...

latin america s voteathon

IN THE annals of Latin American democracy,Marcelo Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction magnate, and...

the farc is now a political party. get used to it

A STORM that filled Bogotá’s streets with ice on November 1st was the second freakish event of...

fending off the flood from venezuela

EVERY morning crowds gather on the Venezuelan side of the Simón Bolívar bridge to cross over into...

what the data say about the integrity of honduras...

THE electoral commission of Honduras (TSE) will not declare a winner in the presidential...

honduras election recount begins amid violence

Credits ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Thousands march in Honduras following...

rio olympics: view from the favelas - we need the...

In diary entries on life in the Maré favela complex,Thaís Cavalcante describes how the community...

lula goes to jail

IT WAS a moment many Brazilians thought they would never see. On April 7th,after spending three days...

why canada s prime minister is homeless

MOST heads of government hold an official residence. It is normally an uncontroversial perk. Not so...

mauricio macri fights argentina s tradition of...

JUST off Leonardo da Vinci Avenue,a long street of modest shops and foul-smelling gutters in the...

how venezuela tests latin america s commitment to...

WHEN Bill Clinton called the first Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994 he wanted to celebrate...

michel temer is trying to fix brazil s pension...

POLITICS is no novelty at Brazil’s carnival celebrations,but some themes are more danceable than...

why it s hard to reduce informality in latin...

HER commerce occupies a small concrete patch in a distant corner of Lima’s wholesale market. There...

lights out for venezuela s democracy

ON THE evening of February 6th the lights went out across most of Caracas,Venezuela’s capital,...

tim hortons and the saga of ontario s minimum wage

TIM HORTONS,Canada’s largest coffee-and-doughnut chain, is so beloved that politicians campaigning...

brazilian ex president lula s corruption verdict...

THE verdict was a bombshell but not a surprise. On January 24th,with police helicopters in the sky...

how will el salvador cope with deportees from...

LUCIEN MARISON LANDAVERDE is feeling glum. Her father left El Salvador to “search for a better...

why latin america is seeing a cable car boom

Flyest ride in townMEXICABLE,a cable-car line 4.9km (three miles) long, soars above Ecatepec, or a...

anti elitist politicians in canada are courting...

EVER since Doug Ford became the leader of Ontario’s centre-legal Progressive Conservative Party on...

lessons from a murder in rio de janeiro

Marielle Franco,now silencedON THE sweltering afternoon of March 18th some 2000 people crammed the...

the bumpy road ahead of sebastian pinera

THE moment presidency of Sebastián Piñera,a billionaire businessman turned politician, will begin...

canada s trayvon martin moment

A change-maker,perhapsON FEBRUARY 9th an all-white jury acquitted a white farmer of murder in the...

why armed intervention in venezuela is a bad idea

WHAT should be done when a regime remains in power by dictatorial means while pitching its people...

an unexpected result moves chile into uncharted...

“WE’RE content,” declared Sebastián Piñera, after the results of the first round of...

the guardian view on the canadian elections: ready...

Stephen Harper’s rightwing decade has hasten its course,Canada’s voters decided this week, but...

how long will latin america support american...

THE last time the leaders of 30-odd countries from the Americas met,in Panama in 2015, the...

china moves into latin america

WHILE Donald Trump was in Davos last week trying to persuade the global plutocracy that “America...

the middle class wild card in latin america s...

SOMETHING unexpected happened in Chile’s presidential election last month. In the first round in...

the president of honduras starts his second term...

Hernández,tough on crime and on votersANSELMO VILLARREAL was cycling past a protest in Sabá in...

despotism and default in venezuela

BACK in July,Nicolás Maduro’s big problem was an opposition-backed rebellion against his...

a warning on poverty from peru

WHAT is it to be poor in Peru? Gonzalo Sánchez,a single father with health problems who is a...

venezuela 039;s crypto currency: salvation or...

IT “WILL be an instrument for Venezuela’s economic stability and financial...

chileans will be a tough crowd for pope francis

WHEN a visit by Pope Francis to Chile was announced final June,the country’s devout Catholics no...

in the name of democracy, venezuela bans the...

“LET us procure alert for 2018,” boomed Nicolás Maduro as he hailed the “third great victory...

jose antonio meade is the pri s candidate for...

ONE custom in Mexico’s era of one-party rule was the dedazo (big finger),the president’s choice...

juan orlando hernandez looks headed for re...

JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ is the first presidential candidate in Honduras’s recent history to escape...

donald trump could set off a nationalist backlash...

AMID the shiny skyscrapers and hipster cafés of central Mexico City,the legislative offices of...

central american migrant program reunites first...

Brian and Wendy Mejia were among the first six teenagers to travel legally under the Central...

canada election: trudeau to give press conference...

Justin Trudeau: who is Canada’s new prime minister?Trudeau elected prime minister as Liberals...

the unexpected victory of carlos alvarado

ON EASTER Sunday the streets of San José erupted with revelry and relief. A long and bitter...

brazil s lula and government by judges

BRAZIL’S supreme court was damned whatever it did. On April 4th,after 11 hours of debate, it...

the death and cruel life of efrain rios montt

The deceased despot (a dictator with absolute power) and some of his victimsNOWHERE in the Americas...

el salvador s rising political star

SOME voters sketched,scratched and scribbled on their ballots. The cleverest crossed out letters...

canadians get the right to watch american super...

The 40-yard dachshDURING Super Bowl 50,in 2016, American viewers got to watch Heinz’s uplifting...

making saskatchewan great again

WHEN it comes to erecting barriers,Brad Wall lives up to his name. On December 6th the premier of...

why latin america has no serious separatist...

LATIN AMERICA is linked to Spain and Portugal by language,culture and ancestry as well as by...

venezuela asks its creditors to renegotiate its...

INVESTORS beget long seen a default on Venezuelan sovereign debt as a question of when,not if. They...

zika s spread in brazil is a crisis of inequality...

It’s no coincidence that most Zika-related microcephaly cases are found in the destitute...

the crisis of argentine gradualism

WHEN he was unexpectedly elected Argentina’s president in 2015 Mauricio Macri faced a task that...

a corruption spat in russia endangers crime...

IN A region where the rule of law is shaky,the International Commission against Impunity in...

peru discovers the value of moss

TO THE Quechua-speaking subsistence farmers who live in the higher reaches of the Peruvian Andes,the...

the short unhappy presidency of pedro pablo...

PERU’S president,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, left office on March 21st much the way he had governed...

loving trump and living in mexico

They’re not sending their best peopleIN 1960 Tom Keane voted for John Kennedy in the United...

latin america s human rights court moves into...

IN A quiet suburb of San José,Costa Rica’s capital, is a building that looks like the White House...

in jamaica s tourist hub, a state of emergency

MONTEGO BAY,Jamaica’s tourist capital, is also a hub for call centres. Many work for American...

latin america s biggest scandal threatens to snare...

SINCE narrowly winning Peru’s presidential election in June 2016,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has had it...

caribbean sugar is close to a sticky end

Why gash cane when you can print passports?IN ITS 18th-century heyday cane grown in the Caribbean...

justin trudeau searches in vain for new free trade...

JUSTIN TRUDEAU,Canada’s prime minister, set off for China on December 2nd amid speculation that...

cuba s leaders are trapped between the need for...

FOR decades Cuban exiles in Miami dreamed of the day that Fidel Castro would die. They imagined that...

honduras s disputed election provokes a crisis

JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ (pictured),Hondurass president, boasts that he has brought stability and...

how chavismo makes the taps run dry in venezuela

IT IS the rainy season in Caracas and the reservoirs are full. But most of the 5.3m people who live...

the threat to central america s prosecutors

ON MAY 7th hundreds of officials gathered in the ballroom of the Camino Real hotel in Guatemala City...

peru s president pedro pablo the brief

EVER since it began in July 2016 the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru looked like an...

the lives and deaths of transgender latin...

A QUARTER of a century ago the town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez,the capital of Chiapas state in Mexico’s...

explaining turnout in latin american elections

THE flurry of elections coming up in Latin America will not only choose unique leaders. It will also...

mexico s presidential front runner misunderstands...

WHEN Latin America zigs,Mexico seems to zag. In the mid-2000s a political “pink tide” swept...

mexico s murder rate heads for a new record

IN APASEO EL GRANDE,a town in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the bodies are stacking up....

latin america needs an infrastructure upgrade

THE Transnordestina railway is supposed to carry soya beans,iron ore and other commodities from...

what s next for canada s economy

“EVERYBODY thinks this is a 50-pound sack of seeds,” says Steven Fabijanski as he hefts a large...

the ills of latin american democracy

THIS year marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the democratic wave that swept over Latin...

wanting to ban the veil, quebec bans sunglasses,...

IN QUEBEC,Canada’s French-speaking province, it is illegal to talk to a librarian while wearing...

how long can venezuela avoid default?

THE mere mention of Venezuela should make most investors shudder. Its president,Nicolás Maduro,...

canada qualifies its welcome to asylum seekers

“TO THOSE fleeing persecution,terrorism & war, Canadians will welcome you, and regardless of your...

an involuntary celibate goes on a killing spree in...

The Incel Rebellion’s grim tollHIS classmates thought he was harmless. But on the afternoon of...

the colombian guerrillas who won t give up their...

JUAN MANUEL SANTOS chose his words carefully after signing a peace deal with Colombia’s FARC...

guatemala votes to demand 53% of its neighbour s...

IT SOUNDS like an outrageous act of provocation. In a referendum on April 15th,Guatemalan voters...

ricardo anaya, mexico s young hopeful

IT TAKES guts to challenge both Andrés Manuel López Obrador,a messianic, silver-tongued populist,...

evo morales finds a way to run for re election

IN FEBRUARY 2016 Bolivia’s left-wing president,Evo Morales, asked voters through a referendum...

chile s voters are in no mood for reckless...

A WEEK before national elections,Chileans would normally be cursing the billboards and posters...

the son of an ex dictator s secretary is elected...

Now it’s my turnOPINION polls gave Mario Abdo Benítez a lead of 10-25 percentage points ahead of...

the property battle in vancouver s chinatown

No con-doTHE smell of incense fills the narrow stairway of the Yue-Shan Society building,a social...

how amlo could win mexico s election

WHEN campaigning for Mexico’s general election officially begins on March 30th,Andrés Manuel...

canada coddles counterfeiters

“LOUIS VUITTON” handbags for the price of a sandwich. “Rolex” watches that cost as dinky as...

colombia s two anti coca strategies are at war...

JUST one road connects Tumaco,the second-busiest port on Colombia’s Pacific coast, to the rest of...

why juan rulfo s fiction of fear is still revered...

FOR a writer,he was a man of extraordinarily few words. Juan Rulfo produced only one short novel,...

is honduras s ruling party planning to rig an...

IN THE days main up to Honduras’s contentious national election on November 26th,one might expect...

chile gives immigrants a wary welcome

Mixed messagesMARIANGELA’s eyes fill with tears as she talks approximately her parents in...

the contenders to succeed colombia s peacemaking...

THE mood was despondent as Carlos Antonio Lozada walked onto a makeshift stage in a plaza in...

murderous latin american police need to start...

“SEVEN rats eliminated,” began one voice message in a WhatsApp chat in El Salvador. “What...

rio olympics: view from the favelas - hopes of...

In her first contribution to our series on life before the Games,Daiene Mendes, who lives in the...

whale boat disaster victims named as locals tell...

Fishermen,water taxis, coastguards and small town of Tofino reach together to prevent even mighty...

the violent end of daniel ortega s decade of quiet

RARELY has a political movement so young been blessed with a symbol so potent. In 2013 the...

multinationals move in to colombia s emerald...

Better than a pay chequeAT THE bottom of a muddy basin surrounded by verdant mountains,Dora Alicia...

on the front line in brazil s war on zika: i felt...

Doctors are struggling to understand the mosquito-borne virus that causes brain damage in unborn...

mario vargas llosa explains why his politics...

IT IS not every novelist who sits down to write a serious work of political philosophy. But Mario...

analysing juan orlando hernandez s disputed...

ON DECEMBER 4th,eight days after Honduras held general elections, the country’s electoral...

how young brazilians hope to clean up politics

WITH his reversed baseball cap and facial fuzz,the style of 29-year-old Daniel José Oliveira...

how mexicos attack on human rights undercut an...

Pushback goes beyond the Ayotzinapa case of missing students with reports of widespread torture and...

former latin american leaders urge world to end...

Former presidents of Brazil,Colombia and Mexico write op-ed on ‘outdated drug policies’ and...

el salvador: where women are thrown into jail for...

When Mirna Ramírez gave birth two months early,she was detained by the police, accused of attempted...

rio olympics: view from the favelas - it is not...

In diary entries on life in Rocinha ahead of the Games,Michel Silva reflects on tensions in the...

guardian mexico city week - live

The Guardian Cities team are in the much misunderstood capital of Mexico this week to get beyond the...

a gay marriage ruling shakes up costa rica s...

A SLICE of Iowa misplaced on the Central American isthmus”,is how an American political scientist...

new thinking on the armed forces after argentina...

ARGENTINES fill given up hope of finding alive the 44 crew aboard the ARA San Juan,the most modern...

how canada s unique research culture has aided...

AI’s nerve centreROBOTS controlled by remote supercomputers. Self-driving cars on narrow,winding...

why being a mayor in mexico is so dangerous

ON A sunny day in Oaxaca,the capital of a southern Mexican state with the same name, the mayor of a...

video of alleged rape angers many and raises...

Victim’s mother said at least one perpetrator is the son of a state politicianUniversity student...

brazilian police detain former president lula in...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva questioned after police raids in original phase of investigation into...

robert de niros plan for caribbean mega resort...

Opponents of $250m project on island Barbuda say the government is trampling on citizens’ rights...

canadas new parliament is most diverse ever

Women account for 88 seats,or 26%, in house of commonsTen First Nations MPs and at least 10 Muslims...

guatemalas ex president ordered to stand trial...

Otto Pérez Molina,64, charged with taking bribes and customs fraudVice-president Alejandro...

suspicions of vote rigging in hondura 039;s...

ON NOVEMBER 25th The Economist published an article suggesting that Honduras’s ruling party...

suspicions of vote rigging in honduras 039;s...

ON NOVEMBER 25th The Economist published an article suggesting that Honduras’s ruling party...

brazilian study boosts theory that zika causes...

Tests on two pregnant women propose a link between the virus and microcephaly but concrete proof is...

missing and murdered indigenous women in canada...

Talks with indigenous communities before an inquiry into the lost and murdered women suggest figure...

mexicos beleaguered president seizes on el chapos...

A recent outburst of violence highlights that the rule of law is largely absent – an issue that...

venezuela congress swears in three politicians...

Decision sets up showdown between newly elected opposition and ruling socialists after court issued...

rio olympics: view from the favelas - many deaths...

In diary entries on life in the Alemão favela complex,Daiene Mendes relates the struggle of...

independents stampede into mexico s presidential...

THE split was years in the making. On October 6th Margarita Zavala (pictured),the former first lady...

venezuela president raises fuel price by 6,000%...

Nicolás Maduro uses decree powers to raise fuel prices for first time in 20 years and devalues...

venezuela deadlock ends as opposition lawmakers...

Three legislators,sworn in despite a supreme court ruling against them, agree to stand down after...

investigation into mexicos 43 missing students...

Six-month investigation says government’s sage of protestors being incinerated at nonsense dump is...

amnesty chief calls latin americas abortion laws...

Salil Shetty,Amnesty International’s secretary general, urges Argentina and others to reform...

canadian six year old still on no fly list despite...

Syed Adam Ahmed’s mother says her son was unable check in online Friday,despite drawing...

embrace feminism to improve decision making, says...

Canadian prime minister uses platform at World Economic Forum in Davos to stress importance of...

elizabeth may: canadian green leader elbows her...

The party doesn’t enjoy the same tall profile in Canada as in Europe,but the tenacious May could...

canadas liberal party within reach of election win...

Liberal party gathering momentum as it hopes campaign message of change trumps Conservatives at...

honduras s political crisis takes an unexpected...

FOR a few days,Honduras felt like a country on the brink of chaos. People queued for hours at banks,...

refugee crisis grows in latin america as women run...

Women and children are increasingly fleeing gang violence in Mexico and Central America in hopes of...

from central america to syria: the conspiracy...

atching the ongoing debate between US liberal and accurate-wing pundits on US mainstream media, and...

thousands of crabs swarm off coast of panama -...

Red crabs,also known as tuna crabs or pleuroncodes planipes, swarm at the Hannibal Bank Seamount, or...

canada: ex minister among seven killed in plane...

Jean Lapierre died with his wife and three siblings when their twin-engine plane crashed in heinous...

gamma ray blasts to cut spread of zika virus in...

International Atomic Energy Agency sends irradiator to sterilise male mosquitoes,which will result...

dozens of brazil convicts remain on the loose...

State of Pernambuco,with country’s most overcrowded prisons, saw two incidents in a week, and...

city at centre of brazils zika epidemic reeling...

Recife in the north-east has seen a surge in cases of microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne...

ex guatemalan officials arrested over civil war...

The suspects face charges of crimes against humanity involving massacres and disappearances of...

chilean former spy and german cult members...

Fifty people kidnapped and tortured by Dina at Colonia Dignidad in 1975Abductees were held in...

el chapo has plenty to read but no viagra in...

The cartel boss is putting on weight and and lower blood pressure since being returned to tall...

scuffles outside former brazilian president s home...

Police hit protesters with batons amid scuffles as investigators search the domestic of former...

brazils economy slumps to 25 year low

GDP fell 3.8% in 2015 as collapse in oil prices,rising inflation and political turmoil grasp...

zika virus: health experts fear carnival...

Millions of tourists,likely not wearing protective clothing, will descend on Brazils coastal cities...

canada court allows assisted suicide and grants...

Parliament given four more months to regulate how and when physician-assisted suicide would be...

mexican state governor to crack down on corruption...

The country’s first independent governor Jaime Rodriguez vowed to tackle graft in Nuevo León but...

british couple found dead in tobago home after...

Bodies of Richard Wheeler,73, and wife Grace, or 67,reported to possess carried signs of stab wounds...

el salvador must do more to protect lgbt rights

Following a wave of violence against the lesbian,homosexual, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT)...

salvadorans hurl fireballs at each other during...

Salvadorans in the town of Nejapa hurl flaming,gasoline-soaked rags at each other in honour of a...

berta caceres one of hundreds of land protesters...

Killings of environmental protesters,often indigenous people fighting to protect land, on the rise...

iaea using radiation to combat zika virus

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is offering to relieve Brazil and other countries in...

davos 2016: justin trudeau and sheryl sandberg on...

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg take fragment in a panel...

venezuela goes to the polls with opposition...

Democratic Unity Roundtable on course for majority as voters poised to reject President Maduro amid...

hurricane patricia: fears of landslides in mexico...

Storm is weakening but the worst is yet to arrive,warns Mexico’s president as reports of flooding...

ex treasurer of ruling party gets lengthy jail...

João Vaccari of Workers party sentenced to 15 years for taking $1m in bribesOil company official...

latin american countries welcome syrian refugees

Venezuela to win 20000 refugees while Chile offers home to 100 familiesBrazil,Argentina and Uruguay...

meat company denies backing advertisements against...

Report said JBS,world’s largest meat processor, was behind Google advertisement calling...

sale of 700 black market olympics tickets halted...

The suspects bought the tickets legally and used social media sites in an attempt to resell them for...

roger agnelli, man who built vale into mining...

The brash executive famed for his deal-making skills has died along with his wife and two...

zika virus: pregnant women warned against travel...

Public Health England updates guidance to recommend pregnant women avoid Brazil and other regions of...

violent deaths in el salvador spiked 70% in 2015,...

At least 6657 people were violently killed in the Central American country,making final year the...

voodoo supreme chief max beauvoir, of haiti, dies...

Haitian president calls leader’s death a ‘grand loss for the country’Beauvoir was biochemical...

trump s global drug policy: the definition of...

whether the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a...

mexico city orders all cars off the road one day a...

In addition, vehicles must stay off the road one Saturday a month as the Mexican capital grapples...

brazil is badly losing the battle against zika...

Nearly 220000 troops to be deployed to eradicate mosquitoesMinister’s comments provoke criticism...

haiti urged to take all steps necessary to meet...

Haiti needs to bewitch "all steps essential" to ensure a peaceful transfer of power to a new...

el salvador declares state of emergency at seven...

‘Extraordinary measures’ include transferring of 299 tall-ranking gang members, putting inmates...

george martins air studio is a symbol of...

The once state-of-the-art recording facility,opened in 1979 in the Caribbean, is the position behind...

news in brief 22 january 2016 (pm)

UN chief supports global appeal for finish to Syria crisis The UN Secretary-General has continued to...

argentina president elect wants venezuela...

Argentina’s conservative president-elect,Mauricio Macri, says on Monday he will seek Venezuela’s...

news in brief 05 november 2015 (pm)

Access to Cypriot burial sites welcomed by UN An agreement by Turkey to supply access to 30...

max blumenthal proves western media a propagandist...

The mainstream media are claiming food is in short supply in Venezuela, so journalist Max Blumenthal...

the real face of justin trudeau: are palestinians...

Trudeau and his government will be judged by future generations for standing on the mistaken side of...

toward america first nafta

Despite the Trump administration’s frantic final-minute efforts to hammer the NAFTA agreement,the...

panama canal getting shallower due to el nino...

original depth restrictions being imposed as levels drop in lakes that link up vital shipping...

spread of zika virus is of deep concern, says...

The director general of the World Health Organisation,Margaret Chan, says the spread of the Zika...

ash to cash: montserrat gambles future on the...

Twenty years on,the island invests in sand mining and geothermal energy to reconcile with the...

colombia on precipice of historic achievement as...

Colombia is on the "precipice of a historic achievement". That was the verdict of United States...

belo monte dam operations delayed by brazil court...

World’s fourth largest hydropower plant’s license was suspended weeks before testing turbines...

un human rights teams to monitor guatemala...

Nine teams from the UN human rights office,OHCHR, in Guatemala will monitor this weekend's...

humanitarian aid blocked from entering venezuelan...

The outrages and atrocities of the Venezuelan government are, and of course,matched by those of...

presstitutes turn blind eye to un report on...

Washington, or with the help of the presstitute media,has orchestrated a fake news "humanitarian...

news in brief 03 february 2016 (am)

secure passage urged for civilians across Ukraine front line Humanitarian organizations in Ukraine...

jailbreak at brazilian prison after explosion at...

CCTV footage captures the moment prisoners escape from the Frei Damião de Bozzano jail in Brazil on...

key role of finance in achieving a sustainable...

Finance is central to realizing a sustainable future for all people and the planet,the UN...

tensions between colombia and venezuela put...

The lack of a political solution to the on-going tensions between Colombia and Venezuela is of great...

un global perspective: focus on syria, israel...

Aid agencies appeal for humanitarian pauses in Syria conflict Humanitarian agencies gathered in...

news in brief 26 january 2016 (pm)

Pan-American health teams mobilize to fight Zika virus Pan-American health teams from the World...

will you stand with teodora?

Can you imagine the isolation and despair that confront the prisoners who are adopted by Amnesty...

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