BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...

Haiti's government has declared a state of emergency in response to escalating violence and insecurity. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled, often across the land border to the Dominican ...

Red Command expanded into cities in Brazil’s northern region after PCC took control of the drug trafficking route via Ponta Pora, a municipality on the border with Paraguay in the center-west ...

A gang leader in Haiti who controls a key port in the country’s capital was accused of slaughtering the elderly and Vodou religious leaders in droves during a bloody campaign to avenge his son ...

The group captured Paletwa and Buthidaung, two other towns on the border with Bangladesh, earlier this year. Since November 2023, the Arakan Army has gained control of 11 of Rakhine’s 17 ...

A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar says that it is now in full control of the country’s border with Bangladesh, after overcoming the final Myanmar military base in the town of ...

Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for ...

Around 180 mostly elderly people have been killed in Haiti after they were reportedly suspected of witchcraft. Gang leader Monel "Mikano" Felix ordered the massacre in Cite Soleil - a densely ...

Haiti’s death toll this year has hit startling levels after gangs ordered the revenge killing of at least 184 people over the weekend in the nation’s capital, a United Nations official said. V ...