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  • This aerial view shows Panama Bay after a severe 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the country, in Panama City on October 9, 2026. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Panama sparking panic in the capital, though no casualties or damage have been reported so far.
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    Powerful earthquake shakes Panama
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    US resident arrested in connection with Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting
  • Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez attends the signing of cooperation agreements in education, hydrocarbons, tourism, agriculture and political affairs with Suriname's President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace in Paramaribo, Suriname, on September 11, 2026.
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    Venezuela’s unelected leader Delcy Rodríguez seeks lost legitimacy. Will she get it?
  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the national caucus retreat on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Friday, September 18.
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    Trump’s been lobbing insults at Canada’s leader for more than a year. Now Carney is hitting back
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    Suspect in Canada’s Yom Kippur shooting has died, authorities say
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  • A Leopardus tilcayo cat, a newly identified species through research led by National Geographic Explorer Paola Nogales Ascarrunz, walks at the Senda Verde animal refuge in the Yungas region, Bolivia, September 1.
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    Meet the tiny wild cat that’s new to science
  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the EU-Canada summit in Brussels, Belgium, on June 23, 2025.
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    Trump says Canada becoming ‘associate member’ of EU could be a ‘hostile act’
  • Members of Uruguay's Special Operations Group (GEO) leave the scene of a shooting in the Marconi neighbourhood of Montevideo on August 19, 2026.
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    Several Latin American leaders are looking to the Bukele model to fight crime. This country has another idea
  • Civil Defense vehicles are seen on a street in the Vila Cruzeiro favela at the Penha complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 29, 2025, in the aftermath of Operacao Contencao (Operation Containment). Residents of a favela in Rio de Janeiro lined up more than 50 bodies at a plaza in their low-income neighborhood on Ocotber 29, a day after the bloodiest police operation in the city's history, AFP reported. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) (Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Drones are becoming organized crime’s weapon of choice in Latin America. Governments are struggling to keep up
  • The women of the Melipona Bee Guardians Network “Muuch Ka’jal Kaabo’ob,” in Yucatán.
    The Melipona Bee Guardians Network “Muuch Ka’jal Kaabo’ob.”
    The women saving Mexico’s ‘sacred Maya bee’
  • People ride in an electric tricycle equipped with a solar panel in Havana, Cuba, on July 10.
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    Cubans are coming up with creative ways to generate power when their island has almost none left
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  • U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez shake hands as they attend a press conference following the signing of an agreement between U.S. oil major Chevron and government officials to expand the company's operations, at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, September 2, 2026.
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    US oil deal promises a flood of investment in Venezuela. When will its people feel the benefits?
  • Jonathan Meléndez attends a press conference at Palacio de Los Deportes in Mexico City, in 2024.
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    Mexican musician, pregnant wife, child and nanny killed in grisly shootings
  • An image shows weight loss drugs being smuggled in a pair of shoes.
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    Brazil’s black market for weight-loss drugs is booming. Smugglers are cashing in
  • Women cry at the site where their relatives were killed in a gang attack in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, Aug. 24.
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    Gang releases some women and children from group of 50 kidnapped in Haiti
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  • A drone view shows a food street market in Cap-Haitien, Haiti April 25, 2024.
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    In the city where Haitian deportees are being sent, locals say they’re not ready
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    Fishermen floating in cooler rescued after 5 days stranded at sea
  • A photo of the Saavedra Caycedo family shared by Camila Martínez Sierra on her Instagram. Ana María, who appears in color in the photo, is the family's sole survivor following the earthquake.
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    Colombia’s earthquake tore apart this family with triplets. Only one survived
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