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  • People walk as they are reflected in a puddle on the street near commercial shops in Caracas, Venezuela, January 31, 2026.
    Maxwell Briceno/Reuters
    Venezuela was promised an economic revival. But three months of minimum wage doesn’t add up to a single US dollar
  • National Guard troops patrol the Teotihuacan pyramids, which remained closed a day after a gunman opened fire on tourists at the archaeological site outside Mexico City, on Tuesday.
    Marco Ugarte/AP
    Shooting of tourists at Mexican pyramids shakes country weeks ahead of World Cup
  • A drone view of visitors at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan as they gather to welcome the spring equinox, in Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico, March 21.
    Alberto Fajardo/Reuters/File
    Canadian killed, six Americans among injured as gunman shoots tourists at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids
  • Mexican authorities raided two methamphetamine labs in Chihuahua on Saturday. The next day, officials said that four personnel from Mexico and the US who participated in the operation died in a car accident.
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    Mexico’s president seeks answers after 2 US Embassy officials die in crash following drug raid
  • Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Basilica of St. Augustine on April 14, 2026 in Annaba, Algeria. During his eleven-day trip, Pope Leo is visiting four African nations - Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea - where he is making addresses to the faithful on the themes of peace, migration, the environment, young people, and family.
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    How the first American pope is reclaiming Christian values from the Trump administration
  • FILE PHOTO: Political advertising is on display ahead of the April 12 general election, in Lima, Peru, April 8, 2026. REUTERS/Angela Ponce/File Photo
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    Trump seeks sphere of influence through Latin American presidential races
  • A spirit bear, or Kermode bear, photographed by Jack Plant in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. There are thought to be less than 100 of the ghostly white bears in the vast protected area, documented by Plant in art book “Spirit of the Great Bear.” <strong>Scroll through to see more.</strong>
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    ‘You want to cry’: Photographer gains rare access to Canada’s ghostly spirit bears
  • A child at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 16, 2026.
    Odelyn Joseph/AP
    Children make up half of Haiti’s gangs. They’re about to face a new foreign force.
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  • A view of the Trump National Doral resort in Miami. The golf club hosted the first Miami Security Forum last week.
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    ‘There’s a new sheriff in town’: Inside the Miami conference on Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’
  • People walk along Alameda Avenue at sunset in Santiago on December 19, 2023.
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    Latin America’s generational shift: What’s causing record-low birth rates across the region?
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    Trump allowed a Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, breaking the island’s fuel blockade. Here’s the latest
  • FILE PHOTO: The sailboats Friendship and Tigger Moth, carrying humanitarian aid for Cuba and crewed by activists taking part in the Nuestra America Convoy flotilla, depart Isla Mujeres, in Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, March 21, 2026. Mexico’s navy activated a search‑and‑rescue operation on March 26, in the Caribbean to locate the vessels after they failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled. REUTERS/Paola Chiomante/File Photo
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    Mexico launches search for missing sailboats carrying aid to Cuba
  • TOPSHOT - Flames and thick black smoke rise from an Air Force Hercules that crashed during takeoff, as a member of the Colombian Police stands nearby, in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, near the southern border with Ecuador, on March 23, 2026. Colombia's military said on March 23 that about 80 troops were believed to be dead after a transport plane crash in the south of the country. (Photo by daniel ortiz / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Scores killed as Colombian military plane crashes on takeoff
  • A man walks while cars cruise along a street during a blackout in Havana on March 16, 2026. Cuba suffered a widespread power cut on March 16, 2026, according to the national electricity company, against the backdrop of a severe crisis on the island caused by the US energy blockade. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Cuba plunged into second nationwide blackout in less than a week
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  • Drones form a pattern in the shape of BTS ahead of comeback concert of K-pop boy band BTS on March 20, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. The free concert in Gwanghwamun Square will be the band's first performance in nearly four years and will be attended by 22,000 invited fans. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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    How K-pop swept Latin America
  • People walk along a street at La Guinera neighborhood in Havana on March 13, 2026. Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed on March 13, 2026 that "Cuban officials have recently held talks" with representatives of the United States, amid heightened tensions between Washington and Havana. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    They built success in the US. Now Havana wants them back
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    Video Cubans facing no food, water or electricity flee to other countries for a better life 3:13
  • Gladys Valdes, 76, prepares coffee during a blackout as Cuba's national electric grid collapsed, according to the country's grid operator, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade, in Havana, Cuba March 16, 2026.
    Norlys Perez/Reuters
    Cuba is going dark under US pressure. How the crisis unfolded and why its troubles are far from over
  • Cuba's Colonel Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, grandson of Raul Castro, attends the funeral of the 32 Cuban soldiers killed during the US incursion in Venezuela at Colon cemetery in Havana on January 16.
    Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images
    With the US pressuring Cuba, a Castro known as ‘the Crab’ is making appearances. Here’s why it matters
  • Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel announces talks with the United States amid an ongoing fuel crisis on Friday.
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    Cuban president says talks held with the United States amid intense pressure from Trump
  • Ships sail at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal on March 7.
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    With the Strait of Hormuz choked by war, the Panama Canal reaps the benefits
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    ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests
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