Ecuador and Gabon vote, China ups its diplomacy, and the Maldives announces a travel ban.

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By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in ...

Another nation to be largely Catholic is the Philippines. According to the World Population Review, over 77% of people follow ...

Though Ecuador does not produce the drug ... increase in the use of container shipping to transport drugs to the continent over the past decade. The matter is further complicated by the security ...

US President Donald Trump, center right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, center left, during a meeting in the Oval ...

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

At a certain age, most people begin to think about where they're going to retire. South America has plenty of great options ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to adapt to one of the world’s most extreme environments.

Unveiling Indonesia's Two New UNESCO Global Geoparks: Kebumen and Meratus UNESCO has included sixteen new Global Geoparks, ...

A dramatic decline in cocoa production owing to bad weather and disease in West Africa caused prices to skyrocket.

Scott Bessent hails Argentina as a free-market beacon in Latin America; US Treasury secretary said he expects Argentina to be ...