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  • Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, visits rural communities in the Lambayeque region in northwestern Peru when he was a bishop of Chiclayo.
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    Peruvian homecoming: Pope Leo returns to the country that shaped his path to the papacy
  • Paraguay's President Santiago Pena leaves after a meeting with Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez (out of frame) at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on September 19, 2026.
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    How Paraguay’s banking crisis toppled a staunch Trump ally in Latin America
  • <p>Experts say this rebar fabrication issue extended across public and private buildings in one town on Venezuela’s coast, and may have weakened the structures against forceful earthquakes</p>
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  • Supporters of LGBT rights take part in the first annual Pride Arts Festival on July 28, 2018, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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    A gay sex ban is overturned in Trinidad and Tobago. What the ruling says about LGBTQ+ rights and post-colonial identity
  • Pope Leo XIV general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, November 4, 2026. Photo by: Stefano Spaziani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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    Pope Leo’s Latin America trip will take him above 11,000 feet, weeks after lung cancer surgery
  • Grizzly Bear standing in Sedge Grass, Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, Canada.
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    Multiple grizzlies may have attacked mother and daughter found dead, Canadian authorities say
  • The Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente, appears at his own request before the Standing Committee of the Congress of Deputies, in the Constitutional Chamber of the Congress, in Madrid, on November 3.
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    Spanish transport minister resigns after two deadly train crashes in one year
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  • Maya Gebala, pictured in this undated photo, was seriously wounded in the mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge on Feb. 10.
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    ‘Bravest person I know’: Father’s pride as school shooting victim leaves hospital after 262 days
  • Gang Suppression Force (GSF) vehicles are seen in a traffic jam in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 24, 2026. Approximately 450 Salvadoran soldiers have arrived in the Haitian capital to reinforce the GSF and take part in search operations for four missing Salvadoran nationals.
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    Bukele adds a wildcard to Haiti’s fractured security landscape
  • A car drives down a street in Havana on August 4, 2026.
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    Hell will freeze over before Havana gives in to Trump. But regular Cubans don’t have that long
  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks after winning the presidential runoff in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 25, 2026.
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    How Lula beat Bolsonaro, broke records and halted the region’s right-wing wave
  • Images by the Press Team of Maria Corina Machado team on Sunday shows the opposition leader arriving at Santa Rosa church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate returned home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States without her involvement.
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    Venezuela’s Machado returns from exile to crowds of cheering supporters
  • Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launches his re-election campaign at Primeiro de Maio Stadium in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, August 16, 2026. The stadium, formerly known as Vila Euclides, was the site of the mass metalworkers' assemblies led by Lula during the landmark 1979 and 1980 strikes. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
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    Lula, Brazil’s great political survivor, wins again in a deeply divided nation
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  • People hold candles during a vigil and prayer service called "Beam of Light," in Caraballeda, La Guaira state, Venezuela, on October 2, marking 100 days since the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, killing and displacing thousands of people.
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    Months after Venezuela’s earthquakes, families cling to hope in search of loved ones
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    Video Lula has defined Brazil’s left for decades. Can his movement survive another Bolsonaro? 3:40
  • Armored police vehicles that are part of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) patrol near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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    El Salvador sends troops to Haiti to rescue four service members
  • Senator and right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a rally at Mackenzie Esporte Clube in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on August 17, 2026. Brazilians will go to the polls next October 4 once again deeply polarized and under the shadow of US President Donald Trump, who has backed conservative candidates in recent elections in Latin America. (Photo by Gledston Tavares / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Flávio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s right-wing movement. Can he win Brazil’s presidency?
  • Teodoro Rivas places a national flag on a grave during a protest against the proposed Rio Indio Reservoir, which would supply water to the Panama Canal, at the cemetery in the community of El Limon, Colon province, Panama, on July 26.
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    To keep the Panama Canal flowing, the living and the dead must pay the price
  • Former Chihuahua prosecutor César Jáuregui arrives at the premises of Mexico’s Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to be questioned about the deaths of two CIA agents, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on May 27. The agents died in a car crash following a security operation to dismantle a drug lab in Guachochi
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    Mexico arrests state official accused of allowing unauthorized CIA role in drug raid
  • Erik Prince speaks to CNN in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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    Exclusive: Inside Erik Prince’s secretive operation taking on Haiti’s gangs
  • The photos of foreign surfers who disappeared are displayed on a poster on the beach in Ensenada, Mexico, on May 5, 2024.
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    Three men sentenced to more than 158 years for the killings of Australian, US surfers in Mexico
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