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Military personnel take part in a U.S.-sponsored multinational military exercise in Panama City, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

After killing hundreds in boat strikes, US military expands campaign on land in Latin America

August 17, 2026 at 8:11 a.m.

Hundreds of people have been killed in the year since the U.S. military began bombing boats it accused of ferrying drugs off Latin America’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts. Now, the...

Rescue workers and forensic technician Joel Mirabal, back left, recover the body of an earthquake victim in La Guaira, Venezuela, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

As quake rescue effort winds down, Venezuelans are left alone to recover their dead

July 6, 2026 at 1:15 p.m.

Local authorities are turning their focus to finding shelter for thousands of displaced people. But the recovery of the dead has become a pressing, and horrifying, task for Venezuelans still...

Rescue workers carry a mans rescued from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuelans search more earthquake ruins as attention turns to humanitarian crisis

June 29, 2026 at 5:09 p.m.

Venezuelans combed Monday through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week’s powerful back-to-back earthquakes, and attention turned to the country's humanitarian crisis that could persist for years.

An aerial view of the MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Arilson Almeida)

Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak heads to Canary Islands after 3 are evacuated

May 6, 2026 at 4:22 p.m.

Three patients with suspected hantavirus infections were evacuated from a cruise ship and being flown to the Netherlands on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said, as the vessel at the...

Mohammed Suleiman, chief paramedic of the Nabatiyeh Emergency Services, comforts his niece, Israa Jaber, at the service’s temporary center in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Eyewitnesses recount three deadly Israeli strikes on medics in southern Lebanon

April 18, 2026 at 4:47 p.m.

The three strikes, which killed four paramedics and wounded six others, is the latest example of Israel's willingness to target Lebanon's health sector.

Javier Milei, President of Argentina, listens to speeches after the signing of a Board of Peace charter during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Argentina and US sign a major trade deal to slash tariffs and boost a political alliance

February 13, 2026 at 6:57 p.m.

Argentina and the United States have reached an expansive trade deal, a win for Argentine President Javier Milei as he moves to open up the South American nation’s notoriously protectionist...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks at the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, a day after meeting with President Donald Trump and members of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Venezuelan opposition leader is confident about return of democracy but says little of her plans

January 16, 2026 at 6:06 p.m.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Friday she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on Air Force One, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro divides a changed region, thrilling Trump’s allies and threatening his foes

January 5, 2026 at 8:26 a.m.

In his celebratory news conference on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump set out an extraordinarily forthright view of the use of U.S. power...

A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stands on a median strip waving a national flag in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans wonder who’s in charge as Donald Trump claims contact with Nicolás Maduro’s deputy

January 3, 2026 at 3:25 p.m.

Venezuelans on Saturday were scrambling to understand who is in charge of their country after a U.S. military operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro.

Soldier guard the old Mapocho train station, now a cultural center, that will be used as a polling station for the general election in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile’s presidential race headed to tense runoff between communist and hard-right candidates

November 16, 2025 at 6:28 p.m.

The communist candidate of Chile’s center-left government, Jeannette Jara, and a hard-right veteran politician, José Antonio Kast, will vie for the country’s presidency in a runoff vote next month.

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