Andrea Meza has ambitious plans for the country’s fight against climate change. But between a warming planet and limited time in her role, she’s on a tight deadline.
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The Jamaican producer worked with artists including Bob Marley, the Clash and the Beastie Boys.
Even in a country long accustomed to random spasms of violence, Brazilians reacted with shock and fear.
In the first year of the coronavirus crisis women’s employment declined by 54 million, or 4.2 percent, compared with 3 percent for men.
Lengthy bureaucracy, slow evacuations and then Taliban checkpoints prevented many from escaping the country.
Joinville hits bottom: Even in a country that's rarely shy about exposed rear ends, it's been a surprise.
Indigenous-guided tours satisfy much of what travelers seek today: that deeper connection to place and underheard perspectives.
In Haiti, earthquake survivors have nowhere to go, so they are finding ways to living live outside.
At least 6,402 Colombians were falsely labeled as enemy combatants and killed between 2002 and 2008, according to a peace court. Former Gen. Mario Montoya has denied wrongdoing.
Under the program begun by President Donald Trump, thousands of asylum seekers were sent to wait outside U.S. territory while their claims were processed in immigration courts. President Biden called it ‘bad policy.’
The Atlantic is quiet now, but things will change within a week.
Jailed former interim president Jeanine Áñez cut her wrist a day after being charged with genocide.
Tony Blair, the former British leader who had previously praised Biden and presided over Britain’s role in the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in 2001, said the departure was the result of “obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending ‘the forever wars.’”
To document the effects of violence and displacement, one photographer traveled along migration routes from Venezuela to Colombia and from Central America to Mexico and the United States.
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The Associated Press reports on the Rev. Leopoldo Serrano, who is trying to help a community rebuild after unspeakable devastation.
The volume of broken infrastructure and housing after the earthquake struck the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation is an omen of new hardship ahead.
Survivors of a powerful earthquake in Haiti scrambled for shelter, food and medical supplies as officials acknowledged that the deadly temblor had disrupted vaccination efforts, and the aftermath of Tropical Storm Grace continued to snarl already feeble relief efforts, worsening a dire humanitarian crisis and fueling anger.
Canada loosened its own restrictions on U.S. travel this month.
Haitians face devastation after two natural disasters hit the island. And what the tragedies have exposed about the country’s preparedness.
Greenland experienced a major melting event again this year, and this time it rained.
