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Wildfires burning in Canada were causing unhealthy air quality across parts of North America on Monday. Source link

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium…

Nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince on…

Lawmakers approved constitutional changes abolishing term limits and allowing President Nayib Bukele to stay in power indefinitely. Why now? Source…

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsBernardo Reyes-TurA Polymita snail in its native forest habitat in Eastern Cuba Researchers have embarked on…

Flip Gordon was uneasy about being a lucha libre wrestler dressed in a U.S. military uniform. Booed at first, he…

Camilla Veras MotaBBC News BrasilReporting fromMaceió, Alagoas state BBCRute Freires lives with her daughter Tamara, who has congenital Zika syndromeWhen…

Rescuers in Chile are continuing to search for four miners trapped in a mine that collapsed after an earthquake two…

Between the beginning of April and the end of June, armed violence in Haiti has killed 1,520 people and injured…

Officials say a flying osprey dropped its catch, which then struck power lines, causing sparks that ignited dry grass. Source…

After Canada failed to strike a trade deal with Washington, the president raised tariffs on some Canadian exports this week.…

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent in São PauloGetty ImagesPresident Trump and Brazilian then-President Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in 2020Brazil thought it had…

Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and a fraud…

Children playing with the set can get caught on a hook of the toy kitchen and asphyxiate themselves, the U.S.…

Mexico’s president, battling U.S. accusations that the cartels have gripped her government, is facing a scandal in which two former…

Chile’s state-owned copper company halted operations at its El Teniente mine after an earthquake. At least one person was killed…

The imbalance in President Trump’s treatment of America’s closest trading partners may come from his desire to make Canada the…

The president, a Trump ally, will now be able to seek re-election indefinitely. The National Assembly also extended the presidential…

The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And…

An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests.…

At this year’s Stratford Festival, kings, orphans and even a coffee shop have a message for their neighbors to the…

US officials said on Wednesday that they will sanction Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of authorising…

Canada joins France in making such a declaration, after months of increasing criticism of Israel by Prime Minister Mark Carney.…

The cancellation of most US funding in January means many services to the most vulnerable people have been cut or…