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As the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Amazon is a key front in the fight against climate...
One of humanity’s gravest existential threats is invisible. Pandemics are silent killers and have prematurely...
Global cooperation is at a crossroads. Many of the world's biggest challenges are not a result of disagreements...
Climate change is already triggering devastating weather events across the planet, including prolonged...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted a sexually explicit video of a man touching himself late Tuesday...
Venezuela’s borders are now dangerous flashpoints in a tense showdown between President Nicolas Maduro...
The crisis in Venezuela risks descending into civil war. The all-out power struggle between President...
The stench of burning tires is hard to escape. Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is again littered with...
Religious violence is undergoing a revival
in a country plagued by rising levels of violent crime, the sentiment is widely popular with voters —...
Brazil has a crime problem. It is the country with the most homicides in the world, registering almost...
A wave of violence that has swept across the state of Ceara in the last three days has led Brazil’s newly...
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Faced with an epidemic of homicidal violence and relentless corruption, newly elected governments in...
It is now well documented that global warming is a multiplier of insecurity and conflict
Of the many outsiders who have emerged in Latin American politics of late, young Nayib Bukele stands...
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Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is making good on a campaign promise to loosen the country’s...
As Canada hosts an international meeting Monday aimed at ending the presidency of Venezuela’s embattled...
The countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America provide around 92 percent of all military and police...
Brazil holds a special place in popular consciousness. It evokes thoughts of sun kissed beaches and dense,...
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Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun...
UK, France lead push to set up UN “clearing house” to identify climate-stressed regions at risk of collapsing...
New research published by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has established a relationship...
That's a wrap for day three at this year's Annual Meeting in Davos. From the future of Europe and fighting...
In some areas of the world, including Central America, rising sea levels and declining agricultural productivity...
For centuries, herdsmen across Africa’s Sahel headed south during the long, hot dry season.
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The effects of climate change are exacerbating conflict between communities in both Mali and Niger, leading...
Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun...
Jair Bolsonaro delivers campaign pledge for looser regulation, despite murder rate
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree significantly expanding the public's right...
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday loosening restrictions...
The warning signs are increasingly hard to ignore
The idea that a ‘good guy with a gun’ will improve personal security in Brazil is pure fiction
President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own firearms
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil signed a decree on Tuesday
Brazilians are desperate for better public security, and not without good reason
We are living through an era of intense turbulence, disillusionment and bewilderment.
Is the world becoming less violent? The answer is yes and no.
"Anti-migrant sentiment is at fever pitch." Seeing ourselves as others see us
Long an advocate for refugee rights, Brazil’s response to the Venezuelan crisis has fallen short. Here’s...
Africa is urbanising at break-neck speed. So how do people keep track of where city amenities are, or...
But that will not be enough to curb emigration
The 16-year-old had spent a balmy Saturday afternoon in May with his high school friends at a funk music...
For Natalia and Rubens Ortega, the only remaining question is: Glock or Taurus?
For as long as anyone can recall, Ituri, the mineral-rich province in the northeastern Democratic Republic...
Cities, not nation-states, are the dominant unit of human organization in the twenty-first century.
For desperate Latin American leaders, the ex-mayor’s super-cop reputation matters more than feeble results.
“international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges and ensuring durable peace.”
When Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was bussed to trial in New York on Tuesday morning, Brooklyn Bridge was...
Legal gun sales – and black market forces – keep arms flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border