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Americas

11 July 2024

  • A detail from Hew Locke’s 2-metre-tall collage depicts a line of wooden houses on a hill, with imagery of trees and greenery, stitched-together materials, and, in the background, what appears to be dollar bills and stamps relating to the rubber industry and slave debentures

    ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

    British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October

10 July 2024

  • Title of photograph: 1.5% — 28/12/2021

    My best shot
    A giant crucifix on an Argentinian beach – Andreas Billman’s best photograph

  • “It’s a way of life, an identity” … Las Flores del Changüí.

    ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

  • A favela in Rio.

    Rio’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close

  • The National Serrania de Chiribique Park, Guaviare, Colombia, 2019.

    Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

9 July 2024

  • A grizzly bear in the woods.

    Canada: grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta

    Conservationists say it’s a ‘slap in the face’ to those who are trying to save the threatened species
  • 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

    William Stampfl tried to climb Mount Huascarán in 2002 with two friends, one was found and one is still missing

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

    • 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’

8 July 2024

  • Scientists warn Beryl’s strength is an 'ominous sign' for the hurricane season ahead

    1:01

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

  • Former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro attends a political conference at the weekend

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

  • 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 ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

  • 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

7 July 2024

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

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

    Ruling, based on constitutional rights for natural features like Quito’s Machángara River, appealed by government

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

    • Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint

    • 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
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