Latin America

At least 39 migrants are dead following a fire Monday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the U.S. border. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the migrants started the fire out of despair.

The landslide in Alausí, about 137 miles south of the capital, Quito, affected an estimated 500 people and 163 homes. Rescuers frantically searched for survivors.

Honduras established diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states.

Xavier López, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," hosted the Sunday variety show En Familia con Chabelo for an astonishing 48 years from 1967 to 2015.

Brazil's new president is headed to China this weekend in an effort to put Latin America's largest economy back on the world stage after years of isolation by his far right predecessor.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city.

New York Mets star closer Edwin Díaz injured his right knee celebrating a win that advanced Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic and eliminated the Dominican Republic.