Americas

The wave of violence sweeping the country after cartel boss killed comes just months ahead of one of the world’s biggest sporting tournament.

At least 23 people are dead, dozens are missing and hundreds of people have been displaced by heavy rains that have triggered landslides in southeastern Brazil.

Drug lords have been killed and cartels have splintered only to see more violent ones replace them and the illicit trade expand. So, in nearly 60 years of the war on drugs, what has actually worked?

A girlfriend of Nemesio Oseguera, the powerful leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel who was killed by the Mexican military, was key to finding him.

The Mexican army’s audacious strike on the country’s most wanted has unleashed terror across the nation.

One of Mexico's biggest drug lords has been killed by authorities, setting off a wave of violence as the government ramps up pressure on ‌cartels.

Nearly all of Cuba’s energy runs on oil and oil products. And Cuba appears to have few lifelines left.

At least 10 people are dead and 27 wounded after a woman opened fire at a school and a home in a remote town in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hailed a speech by Canada’s Prime Minister denouncing Donald Trump’s attacks on the global rules-based order as a ‘stunning’ and ‘thoughtful’ contribution.

The US President took to social media to thank the Venezuelan opposition leader for presenting her prize to him during a meeting in the White House.

Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar ‘perfidy’.

Donald Trump has announced the US government will launch land strikes in Mexico to ‘target cartels’.

It has been decades since the industry relished foreign-policy entanglements.

The opposition was not strong enough to take control of the corrupt country from the security services, criminal cartels and Nicolas Maduro’s political allies, the CIA said.

The US President threatened the acting Venezuelan president with a terrible fate - worse than Nicolas Maduro’s.