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9 July 2024

  • A grizzly bear in the woods.

    Canada: grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta

  • This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

    US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say

  • city at night over river with historical architecture.

    Ottawa’s first ‘night mayor’ is on a mission to shed city’s boring reputation

  • Illustration of composite images from Brazil

    The Latin oil rush
    Pristine forests and grinding poverty: why shouldn’t Brazil’s Amapá state embrace oil wealth?

  • The age of extinction
    Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

  • Beryl unleashes high winds, heavy rains and floods in Texas – video

  • Alleged Bolsonaro-linked crime ring sold official luxury gifts worth $1.2m, Brazil police claim

8 July 2024

  • A photographic collage showing the colours of Guyana's flag, a map of Guyana, oil pipelines, deforestation and some of the people featured in the article

    The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘Latin Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

    With newfound oil wealth reshaping the economy, can the country balance growth with sustainable development?
  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

    About half the countries in the region are experiencing a rush in oil exploration that threatens the global drive to achieve net zero. But many argue that they have a right to enrich themselves in the same way the west has
  • ALICE MUNRO

    Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

    Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him

7 July 2024

  • A white and gray heron flies over a river beside trees

    Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital

  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

  • Security footage shows police apprehending teenagers in Brazil on 3 July.

    Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint

  • A few bright blue river rafts full of people wearing life vests and holding oars, on a green river alongside a rocky cliff the expands high beyond the frame.

    Colombian ex-guerrillas traded war for whitewater rafting. Now dissident rebels are forcing them out

6 July 2024

  • An older Black man in a yellow polo shirt and black pants walks across a tile-floored room with a couch beneath a bamboo roof and open sky.

    Tropical Storm Beryl smashes through Caribbean and heads for Texas coast

    Earliest category 5 hurricane on record is 495 miles south-east of Corpus Christi, with winds near 60mph

5 July 2024

  • Debris due to Hurricane Beryl damage in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on 5 July.

    Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico as category 2 storm and expected to reach Texas

  • Older man in a suit.

    Ex-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges

4 July 2024

  • Drone footage shows trail of destruction caused by Hurricane Beryl in Grenada – video

    After his visit to Carriacou, Grenada's prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, described the aftermath of the category 4 storm as 'Armageddon-like'
  • A fallen fence

    Hurricane Beryl barrels through Cayman Islands after battering Jamaica

    Category 3 storm with wind speeds of up to 120mph continues to wreak ‘utter devastation’ in Caribbean
  • CANADA-POLITICS-TRUDEAU<br>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 3, 2024. The Prime Minister was asked multiple times by media about the recent loss the Liberal Party of Canada suffered in Toronto-St-Paul's, a historic Liberal stronghold. The media also pressed the Prime Minister on his future with the party and if he would call a caucus meeting with his party. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    After nine years in office, is it time for Justin Trudeau to go?

    After a shocking electoral upset the public is growing increasingly weary of his tenure – and of his Liberal party
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