Americas

President Donald Trump said the US and Iran would meet in Qatar this week, at Iran’s request.

The miracle rescue of a 21-year-old four days after an earthquake razed buildings in Venezuela has buoyed workers as the desperate search for survivors continues.

Countries around the world and international organisations are pouring resources into search and rescue efforts in Venezuela after two deadly earthquakes.

A policy of turning back asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Trump administration wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control.

Toll could rise to 100,000 amid widespread devastation after the South American country was hit by two earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 within a minute of each other.

A large hotel fire at a beach resort has killed one woman and forced almost 2000 tourists to flee.

Tributes have been paid to Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, who plunged 40 metres to her death in Brazil during a horrific bungee jumping accident.

United Nations Secretary General says the ceasefire is ‘more like a lesser fire’ as the US and Iran continue to exchange strikes.

A federal grand jury has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro in an attempt to hold him accountable for killing four people, three of them Americans.

The 28-year-old had no travel insurance and was left thousands of dollars out of pocket for life-saving emergency surgery.

New York Court releases alleged Jeffrey Epstein suicide note found by his Italian gangster cellmate.

A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will reach the Spanish island of Tenerife “within three days”, with the evacuation of passengers to start from May 11, Spain said Wednesday.

A Brazilian teenager has shot dead two staff members and injured two other people at a school, in the latest school violence to rock the country.

The cruise ship carrying a deadly rat virus outbreak will be able to sail on to Spain’s Canary Islands after the evacuation of two seriously ill passengers. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges to do ‘everything’ possible to bring peace to the Middle East, as talks between Iran and the United States stall.

The Colombian government blames cocaine-smuggling guerrillas for the attack as the country gears up for key elections.

An explosive device has killed 13 people travelling on a bus in southwest Colombia and injured at least 38 as violence linked to drug trafficking escalates.

The clock is ticking on the US’s war powers statute, which sets a 60-day limit on any president using military force without congressional authorisation.