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  • 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.
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    Children make up half of Haiti’s gangs. They’re about to face a new foreign force.
  • Kenyan members of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti stand in formation in Port-au-Prince in 2024.
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    UN report details sexual abuse investigations involving foreign forces in Haiti
  • A military guard observes from a watch tower at the Combinado del Este prison during a media tour in Havana, Cuba, on April 9, 2013
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    Cuba to free more than 2,000 prisoners as economic crisis deepens under US pressure
  • Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio speaks at a press conference about the US speedboat in Havana, Cuba, on February 26.
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    FBI visits Cuba to probe Florida speedboat attack as survivors face terrorism charges
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • Cuba's President and First Secretary Miguel Diaz-Canel attends a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025.
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    Cuban president promises ‘impregnable resistance’ to any US attempt to control island
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • Cubans transit on a street in Havana on January 7, 2026. Cubans weary from years of economic crisis, shortages of basic supplies and regular power blackouts, fear the US attack on Venezuela, a leftist ideological ally and its main oil supplier, will see life get even tougher. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    ‘We can’t take it anymore’: How Trump is pushing Cuba to the brink
  • Cuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on February 25, 2026. Cuba's coast guard said on February 25, 2026, it shot dead four people and wounded six others traveling in a US-registered speedboat during an exchange of fire near Cuba's shores that came amid heightened tensions with Washington.
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    Cuba charges six exiles with terrorism over Florida-registered speedboat attack
  • 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.
    Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images
    With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?
  • Enrique Marquez, a released Venezuelan prisoner, is recognized as U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.  Kenny Holston/Pool via REUTERS

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    Freed Venezuelan political prisoner reunites with niece at Trump’s State of the Union address
  • 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
  • A soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, on Sunday, following the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho."
    Armando Solis/AP
    How Mexico hunted ‘El Mencho’ with help from his lover’s ‘trusted man’ and US intelligence
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