Hurricane Dorian has unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas, killing at least five people. Prime minister Hubert Minnis said at least five died in the Abaco Islands and there are people in nearby Great Bahama island who are in serious distress. He said rescue crews will respond to calls for help as soon as weather […]

As the Bahamas were hit by the most powerful storm to hit the archipelago since records began, a wave of power cuts and internet outages made getting information from the storm-hit areas difficult. But as the main force of the hurricane passed, video showing the damage sprang up online. Latrae Rahming, once press secretary to […]

A former commander in the Farc rebel group in Colombia, Iván Márquez, has called on his followers to take up arms less than three years after the rebels signed a peace agreement with the government. Iván Márquez appeared in a video in army fatigues and carrying a gun. He announced that a “new phase of […]

Brazil has banned setting fires to clear land for 60 days in response to a massive increase in the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest. The decree was signed by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has faced intense criticism at home and abroad for failing to protect the rainforest. A leading Brazilian environmentalist warned on […]

An attack on a bar in Mexico’s Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos has left 25 people dead. “The criminals went in, closed the doors, the emergency exits, and set fire to the place,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a morning news conference yesterday. Veracruz state police said the Tuesday night attack targeted the […]

Mexican president says at least 13 others injured in an arson attack by suspected gang members in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. At least 25 people were killed in an arson attack by suspected gang members on a bar in the southeastern Mexican port of Coatzacoalcos late on Tuesday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, in a fresh […]

At least 23 people have been killed in a Mexican bar fire that police believe followed an attack linked to drug cartels. Eight women and 15 men died in the blaze in the Caballo Blanco (White Horse) bar in Coatzacoalcos, a port city in Veracruz, on Tuesday night. Another 13 people were badly injured in […]

First-ever expanded sanctions against a western hemisphere government in over 30 years similar to those faced by Cuba. US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing an economic embargo against Venezuela, in the latest move against President Nicolas Maduro and his government. The order, signed late on Monday, freezes all Venezuelan government assets […]

Leaders of the Group of Seven nations have said they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region and repair the damage as tens of thousands of soldiers get ready to join the fight against blazes that have caused global alarm. French President Emmanuel Macron said the summit leaders were nearing […]

The record number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has coincided with a sharp drop in fines for environmental violations, BBC analysis has found. Official data from Brazil’s environment agency shows fines from January to 23 August dropped almost a third compared with the same period last year. At the same time, the number of […]