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November 23, 2025

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning...

November 23, 2025

Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘psychotic attack’ made him tamper with ankle monitor

Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was buggedBrazil’s far-right former...

November 22, 2025

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

Bolsonaro was under house arrest for masterminding coup to stop 2022 election winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking officeBrazil’s former...

November 22, 2025

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final dealThe...

November 21, 2025

Colombian scientists recover first treasures from ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

Cannon, three coins and a cup taken from San José, a 1708 wreckage that could hold items worth billions of dollarsA cannon, three coins and a...

November 21, 2025

US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island

Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department saysThe Department of Justice has...

November 21, 2025

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in...

November 20, 2025

Brazilian president will take fossil fuel phase-out plan to G20 summit

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he is ready to fight for transition roadmap despite opposition from some states

November 20, 2025

Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots

Release of report comes amid conjecture Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuelan presidentThe White House under Gerald Ford...

November 20, 2025

Cop30 conference centre evacuated as fire breaks out – as it happened

UN secretary-general António Guterres earlier used speech at Belem summit to urge countries to find compromises in final hours of negotiationsInside...

November 19, 2025

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

Exclusive: André Corrêa do Lago says rise of clean energy must be acknowledged and rich countries need to do more

November 19, 2025

Cop30 live: Brazil aims for early agreement on ‘big four’ issues

In an unorthodox move, the Brazilian organisers have hatched a plan to wrap up the trickiest topics at the climate summit by this evening, two days...

Americas Articles

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘psychotic attack’ made him tamper with ankle monitor

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Colombian scientists recover first treasures from ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

Brazilian president will take fossil fuel phase-out plan to G20 summit

Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots

Cop30 conference centre evacuated as fire breaks out – as it happened

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

Cop30 live: Brazil aims for early agreement on ‘big four’ issues