bbc– Preliminary results from the Nicaraguan general election suggest that incumbent President Daniel Ortega has won by a landslide. With almost all the votes counted, Mr...
reuters– Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was met by jeering protesters when he visted the Italian town of Pistoia on Tuesday to pay homage to a war...
bbc– At least 300 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mexico’s Pacific coast.Preliminary exams suggests that the olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) drowned, an official...
bbc– One of Ecuador’s best-known athletes, Alex Quiñónez, has been shot dead.He was shot along with another person outside a shopping centre in the city of...
dw– Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso announced a 60-day state of emergency on Monday amidst a rise in violent drug crime. “Starting immediately, our Armed Forces and police will be...
Police in Nicaragua have placed opposition presidential hopeful Cristiana Chamorro under house arrest. Prosecutors have accused Ms Chamorro of money laundering, which she denies, and demand...
Three members of the Catholic clergy kidnapped in Haiti earlier month this have been released, officials say. But seven other people – including a French nun...
Before the clinic ran out of oxygen, Maria Auxiliadora da Cruz had been showing encouraging signs of progress against Covid-19. On 14 January, her oxygen levels...
Parliament in Honduras has initially approved a bill that will make it virtually impossible to legalise abortion in the country. The new measure will require at...
The ex-security chief at a mine in Guatemala, Mynor Padilla, has pleaded guilty to killing an anti-mining activist in 2009. Adolfo Ich was killed at the...