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27 November 2024

  • Deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to reporters following a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, on 26 November 2024.

    Canada leaders agree to unite against Trump tariff threat amid reports of retaliatory measures

    Deputy PM says ‘we need to be smart, strong and united’ after meeting on threat by US president-elect of a blanket 25% tax on imports from Canada
  • Narcosubs and drug shipments intercepted during Operation Orion

    Colombia-led operation seizes world record 225 tonnes of cocaine, and uncovers new Australia trafficking route

    Operation Orion, a cooperative operation between 62 countries, finds some of the record haul on a new drug route being used by a ‘narco submarine’

    • Bombshell police report details alleged Bolsonaro plot to stage rightwing coup

    • Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’

    • The real cost of cruises
      Paradise lost? How cruise companies are ‘eating up’ the Bahamas

26 November 2024

  • Jair Bolsonaro flanked by suited men points a finger while wearing a black T-shirt

    Bolsonaro allies nearly launched military coup in 2022, police report says

  • Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, behind a lectern gestures.

    Mexico president vows to retaliate with own tariffs against Trump’s tax threat

  • two men in suits shaking hands

    Trudeau calls emergency meeting over Trump’s Canada tariff threat

  • A shipping yard with containers stacked high.

    Trump’s tariff threat sets stage for bitter global trade war

  • Netflix series tells story of Brazil’s notorious police massacre of street children

  • Trump vows 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and deeper tariffs on China

  • Power Alley (Levante) review – Brazilian volleyball teen finds support in Bolsonaro-era nightmare

25 November 2024

  • Man sits at desk

    ‘Royalties for everyone’: Suriname president plans to share oil wealth

    All Surinamese adults to receive payment from recently discovered oil and gas reserves – ‘no one will be left behind’
  • A person bundled up for the cold weather walks through blowing snow

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Swaths of Canada braced for heavy snow

    Temperatures unlikely to exceed -20C in parts of Canada, while a red weather warning has been issued for Sri Lanka
  • An aerial view of farms amid forest

    The age of extinction
    Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world

    Mexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment

24 November 2024

  • Supporters of Yamandu Orsi, the centre-left presidential candidate, celebrate following early results in Uruguay's presidential election run-off between him and ruling conservative coalition candidate Alvaro Delgado, in Montevideo.

    Uruguay election: opposition centre-left figure Yamandu Orsi wins presidential runoff

    Former history teacher says the ‘horizon is brightening’ as all political rivals pledged to work together to move the country forward

22 November 2024

  • Man speaks into microphone with woman on stage

    Nicaragua: Ortega and wife to assume absolute power after changes approved

  • people excavating an archeology site

    4,000-year-old canals used for fishing by Maya predecessors discovered in Belize

  • a police officer stands on a road

    Smugglers convicted after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border

  • a cyclist rides in a bike lane

    Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows

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