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  • 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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    2 US Embassy trainers and 2 Mexican agents die in Chihuahua highway crash after drug operation
  • 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
  • Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the socialist character of the Cuban revolution in Havana, Cuba, on Thursday, April 16.
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    Cuban leader, marking Bay of Pigs anniversary, vows to defeat US forces if attacked again
  • Former General Director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency Alexandre Ramagem at the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasilia, on June 10, 2025.
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  • 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
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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.
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    Venezuela’s Maduro has been in a notorious Brooklyn jail for over 80 days. This is what life is like in there
  • 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 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.
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    Trump aims to end the revolution that Fidel Castro started. Can the US and Cuba strike a deal?
  • 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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  • 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.
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    Cuba is going dark under US pressure. How the crisis unfolded and why its troubles are far from over
  • 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 soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, following the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho."
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    Trump asked Latin America to use military force against drug trafficking. Here are the risks
  • 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
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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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  • 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
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