Latin America

Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake. Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the country. Video circulating online shows the moment the rock detaches...

apnews— Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered...

bbc- Ecuador has announced that the Covid-19 vaccine will be mandatory for most citizens, saying the measure is needed because of a rise in infections and the spread of variants such as Omicron. The health ministry said there were enough...

bbc- Leftist candidate Gabriel Boric has won Chile's presidential election after an early concession from his far-right rival, José Antonio Kast. Mr Kast conceded defeat barely an hour and a half after polls closed, and with around half of ballots...

bbc- In 1998, just months before Mexican musician Vicente Fernández earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his eldest son, Vicente Jr, was kidnapped. The artist was critically acclaimed and had sold tens of millions of records worldwide....

independent.ie- The discovery of a new species of dinosaur armed with a bladed tail similar to an Aztec war club means books on paleontology will have to be rewritten, experts said. The two-metre-long dinosaur was a herbivore, but its tail,...

bbc- Sheets of tarpaulin supported by sticks pepper a public square in the northern Colombian city of Montería where a community of indigenous Emberá people have lived since mid-April. The community fled violence which broke out between rival armed groups...

bbc- The head of Ecuador's prison system and the country's armed forces chief have resigned following a fresh gang fight which left 68 inmates dead in a jail in the city of Guayaquil. The deadly fight happened at the same...

bbc- Preliminary results from the Nicaraguan general election suggest that incumbent President Daniel Ortega has won by a landslide. With almost all the votes counted, Mr Ortega has secured close to 76% of the vote. But as the BBC's Central...

bbc- The International Criminal Court (ICC) will investigate whether crimes against humanity were committed during Venezuela's crackdown on anti-government protests in 2017. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said the state respects the decision to investigate, but does not share it. More...