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Venezuela's ruling party is celebrating what it has described as "an overwhelming victory" in regional and parliamentary elections, which were boycotted by the majority of opposition parties. The electoral council (CNE), which is dominated by government loyalists, says candidates for the United...

Kyiv’s European allies slapped new sanctions on Moscow, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. “We have made clear again and again that we simply expect one thing from...

Hundreds of supporters of ex-President Evo Morales marched toward Bolivia’s top electoral court on May 16 to push for their leftist leader’s candidacy in presidential elections later this year, a rally that descended into street clashes as police tried to clear out a group of demonstrators. The...

President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft peace deal this week, as Washington seeks to end a decades-long conflict in the region. The United States is awaiting final feedback due this weekend from...

Police in Mexico have arrested a retired judge accused of tampering with evidence related to the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala more than a decade ago. Lambertina Galeana Marín was the president of the Superior Tribunal of Justice in the state of Guerrero when the trainee teachers went...

Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, has died at the age of 89. Mujica became an icon even beyond Uruguay’s borders, as he led his country to pursue environmental reforms, legalize same-sex marriage and loosen restrictions on marijuana. He also...

President Donald Trump said he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with Syria's Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Trump is set to say hello to Sharaain Saudi Arabia, a White House...

Crates containing documents from Nazi Germany have been rediscovered in the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court. The unusual find was made as workers were clearing the building's basement ahead of its archives being moved to a newly created museum. The documents were sent by the German embassy in...

Gangs have attacked another town in Haiti’s central region, killing at least four people, including an 11-year-old child, a human rights activist told The Associated Press. At least 15 other people were injured by gunfire, and more than a dozen homes were burned in Petite Rivière, said Bertide...

Ecuador's opposition party filed another objection to the recent presidential election results, according to a video released by the Citizens' Revolution party. Ecuador's elections body denied a request from the leftist opposition to recount votes, but the Citizens' Revolution party said it handed...