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A government forecast suggests that there could be even more wildfires this season than during last year’s exceptional fire period.

Two centuries after independence from Spain, many Colombians still use “sumercé,” meaning “your mercy” as an everyday address.

Yaya Dillo, who was expected to run for president in May, was killed along with many others in a gun battle in the capital, the national prosecutor said.

Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégée of Mexico’s current president, holds a commanding lead in the polls. But to many in Mexico, she is still an enigma.

The Israeli military and Gazan officials have offered diverging accounts of one of the deadliest known disasters involving civilians in the nearly five-month war.

Stories about distinctive wildlife, Aboriginal mythology and idyllic Australian childhoods.

Colombia’s main airport has become a hub for migrants heading to the U.S. in greater numbers. Some have been stranded for weeks, or forcibly turned back.

Voters enraged by a violent crackdown on protesters and disaffected by the failure of elections to yield substantive changes are vowing to make a statement by staying home during Friday’s elections.

The immigration minister said Mexico had not done enough to address the surge of asylum seekers arriving in Canada.

A judge said a new British law aiming to foster reconciliation over decades of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland would breach the European Convention on Human Rights.