Americas

US President Joe Biden celebrated the strengthening of his party’s majority in the Senate on Tuesday after Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of a runoff election in Georgia. …

Heavy rains in northwest Colombia sent a wall of earth crashing onto a winding road, swallowing up a bus and other vehicles and killing 34 people, emergency services said Monday. …

A pregnant Mexican woman died after she was cut open by two assailants who stole her unborn baby, authorities said Monday. The alleged perpetrators were arrested with a newborn in …

A former Honduran lawmaker who spent years on the run avoiding a US extradition order for alleged cocaine trafficking has been captured, according to the Central American country’s security minister. …

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the scale of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), has sworn an oath of allegiance to Russia and received a …

US President Joe Biden’s administration would make it harder to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border under several plans being considered that bear similarities to policies pushed by former President …

The US Chamber of Commerce and 12 other groups on Thursday warned the European Union against adopting rules that could exclude Amazon (AMZN.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google, Microsoft (MSFT.O) and …

U.S. President Joe Biden does not intend to speak to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about ending the Ukraine war as conditions for such discussions currently do not exist, the …

The warden of an Ecuadoran prison where deadly riots broke out two weeks ago was killed by gunmen on Thursday, the federal prisons agency announced. Retired police colonel Santiago Loza …

At least 28 people were sexually abused by police during Colombia’s mass anti-government protests last year, Amnesty International said Thursday. Having received hundreds of reports of gender-based violence during that …