Mining giant Rio Tinto is facing accusations that a mine it abandoned in Papua New Guinea two decades ago is leaking ...

Mexico says it is closing the Puente Grande maximum security prison where notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman made ...

The U.K. and Canada imposed sanctions on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and senior figures in his government, a sign ...

The global coronavirus death toll has passed one million – a milestone branded “agonising” and “mind-numbing” by the UN ...

Quebec is returning to a stepped-up lockdown in two of its biggest cities and the premier of Canada’s most populous province ...

One of Colombia’s most wanted paramilitary leaders has been flown back to his home country after spending 12 years in U.S.

Mexico upped its “estimated” COVID-19 deaths to 89,612 on Monday, and boosted estimates of its total number of cases to ...

Hundreds of women marched through Mexico's capital Monday to demand nationwide legalization of abortion, leading to clashes ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint news conference in Moscow, Russia March 5, 2020. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via ...