Renowned journalist arrested in Guatemala's political crackdown
Guatemalan authorities have arrested a prominent journalist and outspoken critic of the government, prompting outrage on the part of human rights activists.
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Who is Viktor Bout, the prisoner the U.S. may trade for Brittney Griner?
Bout is a Russian who was the world's most notorious arms dealer in the 1990s and early 2000s. He's serving a 25-year prison sentence in Illinois, but could be freed as part of a U.S.-Russia swap.
Brazil's President Bolsonaro is trailing in his campaigning for reelection
Brazil's populist President Bolsonaro faces a tough fight for reelection, as he trails in the polls for the October vote.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro kicks off his reelection campaign
President Bolsonaro is a far-right populist who likes to cast himself in the same mold as former U.S. President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro is facing a stiff challenge in October's election.
What these teen girls do — and don't — have time for might surprise and inspire you
On top of schoolwork and chores, these four Girl Up "teen advisers" sometimes give up their favorite hobbies to try and "save the world." They talk about their activism — and their role models.
Multiple people are dead after one of the deadliest police raids in a Brazilian city
A police raid in a Rio favela has ended in multiple deaths, in one of the deadliest operations in years.
A raid in a Rio favela left 18 dead, sparking renewed police violence complaints
A raid of Rio de Janeiro's largest complex of favelas has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of state and presidential elections.
Extreme drought in northern Mexico has left millions of residents without water
Two of the three reservoirs that serve the city are practically empty. In the long term, officials are trying to build more dams and reservoirs. The short term plan is to hope for rain.
2 men are indicted in the tractor-trailer case that left migrants dead in Texas
A federal grand jury indicted Homero Zamorano Jr. and Christian Martinez, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death.
A dire moment in the pandemic ... was the chance he'd been waiting for
How Sotiris Missailidis, head of R&D in Brazil's vaccine agency, used the COVID crisis to push through a game-changing effort for middle-income countries to invent their own mRNA vaccine.