Americas

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.

Donald Trump threatens Colombia and its president, described Cuba as “ready to fall” and reasserted his desire to take control of Greenland.

The country has the world’s largest petroleum reserves. Getting them out of the ground will be tortuous.

Here, might makes right, and laws and rules fall away.

A strong earthquake has rattled southern Mexico, killing one person, with horrifying video emerging online as more aftershocks hit.

Which nation improved the most this year? Given its radical regime change, the answer might surprise you.