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9 October 2024

  • the X app on a smartphone

    Brazil lifts ban on X after Elon Musk complies with court demands

    Social platform was blocked after tech billionaire failed to name local representatives and pay fines

8 October 2024

  • A man standing on a ladder fixes boards over windows of a house as another holds the foot

    Floridians warned ‘you are going to die’ if they don’t evacuate as Milton nears

  • People standing next to flowers, candles and a large photographic portrait of Alejandro Arcos Catalán

    Anger and disgust in Mexico over beheading of newly sworn-in city mayor

7 October 2024

  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Mingas_Image_p46 Rebuilding a thatched house in the páramo (2011, October). Mingas+Solidarity by Tristan Partridge (Pazmaen Press, Sept. 2024) Rebuilding a thatched house in the páramo / Reconstruyendo una casita con techo de paja en el páramo.

    When work becomes a party: capturing the joy of collective effort in an Indigenous community in Ecuador

5 October 2024

  • Stephen Doughty

    UK ‘resolutely committed’ to its overseas territories, says foreign minister

  • Smoke rises from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 in the High Level Forest Area<br>An image taken through a window shows smoke rising from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 in the High Level Forest Area, which originated from the Northwest Territories in 2023 but flared due to strong winds, near Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada May 10, 2024. Alberta Wildfire/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe

4 October 2024

  • two men examine a gun inside a room with a table covered with guns

    US supreme court will rule on $10bn suit Mexico filed against US gun makers

  • Javier Milei (L) and The West Wing character Jed Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen.

    Argentina’s Javier Milei accused of plagiarising UN speech from West Wing

3 October 2024

  • a man standing in a field swinging a farm implement.

    They feed us
    ‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US

  • Members of security forces guard the streets in a bid to control rising crime linked to gang violence, in Kingston, Jamaica.

    Jamaica welcomes US move to clamp down on gun trafficking to Caribbean

  • close-up of man wearing blue suit and blue tie

    Quebec separatist leader holds Trudeau to ransom: ‘We saw an opportunity’

  • People walk through a tunnel made of Christmas lights in Caracas

    Christmas Caracas: early festivities are no joke as Maduro tightens grip

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt

  • Acapulco: drone footage shows destruction wreaked by Hurricane John – video

  • The age of extinction
    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

2 October 2024

  • People wait for a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince on 30 September 2024

    Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’

    Half the country’s population now struggling to find food as lawlessness and inflation cause ‘full-blown crisis’, say aid agencies
  • Members of a fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Brazil, on 8 August 2024.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘The Earth is crying out for help’: as fires decimate South America, smoke shrouds its skies

    Huge tracts of land have burned from largely man-made blazes in Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and other countries, with people suffocating from its fallout
  • Maya and the Wave.

    Maya and the Wave review – the sea is not the only risk for female big-wave surfer

    Documentary about Maya Gabeira’s record-breaking feats almost accidentally tells a story too about the endemic sexism in sport

1 October 2024

  • A man wearing a black suit and gray tie speaks at a podium with his hands gestured

    Justin Trudeau survives a second parliamentary confidence vote

    House of Commons defeats oppositional Conservative party’s bid to topple Canadian prime minister’s reign
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