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  • Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted by federal agents, as he heads towards the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan for an initial appearance to face U.S. federal charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and others at Downtown Manhattan Heliport, in New York City, U.S., January 5, 2026.
    Adam Gray/Reuters
    Venezuela’s Maduro has been in a notorious Brooklyn jail for over 80 days. This is what life is like in there
  • 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
  • The Kenyan police contingent arrives on Haitian soil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on July 16, 2024. A new contingent of 200 Kenyan police officers arrive in Port-au-Prince, marking the start of a crucial mission. Aboard an Omni Air International aircraft, this second contingent of 200 Kenyan police officers represents the vanguard of a multinational force designed to dismantle armed criminal gangs operating in Haiti.
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    Foreign forces are headed to fight Haiti’s gangs. But haven’t we been here before?
  • 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
  • A man walks on a street in the rain as Cuba reconnected its electrical grid across much of the island, according to the Energy and Mines Ministry, following a nationwide blackout that left about 10 million people without electricity, in Havana, Cuba, on March 17, 2026.
    Norlys Perez/Reuters
    Trump aims to end the revolution that Fidel Castro started. Can the US and Cuba strike a deal?
  • A street vendor tends to a customer on the Malecón during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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    Trump muses over ‘taking Cuba’ as island’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade
  • A man rides a tricycle with his leashed dog running alongside him during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, on Monday, March 16.
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    Flailing Cuba invites exiles to return, but hurdles remain
  • 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.
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    With the US pressuring Cuba, a Castro known as ‘the Crab’ is making appearances. Here’s why it matters
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  • Forensic Toronto police officer marks a bullet impact mark at the U.S. consulate in Toronto on Tuesday March 10, 2026.  (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
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    What we know about the US consulate shooting in Toronto
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  • The Provincial Clinical–Surgical Hospital "Arnaldo Milian Castro," where people injured in the speedboat incident were reportedly being treated on Thursday.
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    US citizen was among those killed in Cuba speedboat shootout. Here’s what we know
  • A bus set on fire by organised crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, burns at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on Sunday, February 22.
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    With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?
  • Members of the Searching Mothers of Sonora group put up flyers.
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    A group of Mexican mothers with years of experience looking for missing people joins Guthrie search
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  • A bus set on fire by organised crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, burns at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on February 22, 2026.
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    The death of ‘El Mencho’ exposed the reach of Mexico’s cartel crisis. Will US tourists stay away?
  • Firefighters work at the site where buses were set on fire by members of organized crime following a military operation in which Mexican officials said cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, "El Mencho," was killed, at a tourist area, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, February 22, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.  REUTERS/Stringer
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    US tourists stranded in Mexico amid ‘really scary’ cartel violence following drug lord’s killing
  • Davianis Deyunde, 50, and Raul Trujillo carry a recently bought solar panel after unloading it from a delivery truck as Cubans grapple with an ongoing energy crisis exacerbated by fuel shortages, Havana, Cuba on February 4, 2026.
    Norlys Perez/Reuters
    Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island
  • Members of the army patrol the perimeter of Palacio Nacional, where President Claudia Sheinbaum held her daily morning press conference about the wave of violence in Mexico, following the killing of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as 'El Mencho,' in a military operation on Sunday, in Mexico City, Mexico, February 23, 2026. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
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    Will the killing of ‘El Mencho’ set off turf wars and narco-terrorism across Mexico?
  • The president of Venezuela's National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez (center), first vice president Pedro Jose Infante (left) and second vice president Grecia Colmenares (right) speak with opposition deputy Nora Bracho (bottom left) and ruling party deputy Jorge Arreaza during a debate on an amnesty bill proposed by Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez at the National Assembly in Caracas on February 19.
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    Venezuela passed a law to free hundreds of political prisoners after US pressure. Here’s why some welcome it cautiously
  • Peruvian President Jose Jeri testifies before a congressional committee to address undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman, in Lima, Peru, on January 21, 2026.
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    Peru’s leader José Jerí ousted over ‘Chifa-gate’ scandal, as presidential ‘curse’ strikes again
  • People walk next to trash on a street in Havana, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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    No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt
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    Videoby Jennifer Hauser Cuba’s economy crippled under Trump administration’s oil embargo 2:12
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