A new global risk map for 2025 identifies countries that have the potential to pose high-risk and extreme risk for travelers.

Three western tribes, three states and the Mexican state of Baja California, have signed natural gas export agreements.

It’s been over 200 million years since South America broke off Africa into its own continent. But now it’s behaving very ...

A new study shows that dry, warm, and flammable conditions have skyrocketed across the continent, favoring the spread of uncontrolled fire. South America Is Drying Up originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy ...

President Joe Biden embarks on a somber farewell tour of South America Thursday, with two major summits and a historic ...

Any concessions that Biden made would have a question mark over them when policy could change so "drastically" under Trump, said one senior diplomat in South America. Hosts Peru want to revive an ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Sara caused roads to flood and a bridge to partially collapse in northern Honduras.

Today is Veterans Day. Americans first observed it on November 11, 1919, one year to the day after the end of the conflict they knew as the Great War and we (regrettably) know today as World ...

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Although Vice President Kamala Harris received a majority of the votes for president in Boston, preliminary data show that President-elect Donald Trump made significant gains in the city since 2020.