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António Guterres spoke by phone to Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness earlier in the day emphasising afterwards in a statement…

The BBC’s Nada Tawfik reports from Black River, Jamaica, where the strongest storm to hit the country in modern history…

The number of people killed in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa has risen to 28, the Caribbean nation’s…

Three men have been killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean, US Defence Secretary…

Brandon Drennonin Westmoreland, JamaicaBrandon Drenon / BBC NewsA town just outside of Whitehouse in Westmoreland Parish sits in ruinsFive days…

new video loaded: Cleaning Bones for Day of the DeadPractitioners of an annual ritual to clean deceased relatives’ bones are…

Pomuch, Mexico, is one of the last places where residents clean their relatives’ bones. Now they are grappling with a…

The Blue Jays, Canada’s only M.L.B. team, were a salve for a country hit by President Trump’s threats and tariffs.…

Carlos Manzo, a mayor in the state of Michoacán, had repeatedly asked President Claudia Sheinbaum for more resources. He was…

Authorities have yet to reach dozens of communities in Jamaica, raising the question of how many people really died in…

The fire ripped through a store in Hermosillo, a city in Sonora State. The governor said that minors were among…

Before being imprisoned in the late 1980s, he made a fortune as a Honduran power broker connecting Colombian and Mexican…

The meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, came after a long period of tension…

The Canadian prime minister also said that he had asked the province of Ontario not to air the ad that…

Getty ImagesScott Bessent is the face of America’s gamble on ArgentinaUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been the point-person entrusted…

Brandon Drenonin Black River, Jamaica Watch: BBC reports from “ground zero” of Hurricane Melissa’s destructionPeople walk along muddied roads scavenging…

The Pentagon said one person survived a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Pacific, but after searching for…

More than 60 people have reportedly been killed in the continuing series of attacks since early September “in circumstances that…

The Category 5 storm ravaged western Jamaica and drenched the small community of New River, where residents were coping with…

The Trump administration’s military strikes on boats near South and Central America violate international law and must be investigated, a…

Homes and power lines have been destroyed in the Jamaican tourism hub of Falmouth, which the BBC has finally been…

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described the town of Black River as the country’s “ground zero” of damage from…

Rachel Hagan and Imogen Foulkes,Geneva CorrespondentEPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockThe UN’s human rights chief has condemned US military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs…

When a figure appeared in the window of a government building, the governor suggested she was an empress’s ghost. Months…