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Southern California coastal communities are clearing up after a weekend of intense waves and flooding that damaged beachside homes, tore apart a Long Beach boardwalk and brought record rain to Las Vegas.
Britain has written to Interpol's Lyon headquarters urging it to treat Argentina's 'red notice' requests over the Falklands Sea Lion oil project as political, as tensions over the territory reach their sharpest point since the 1982 war.
A corruption investigation implicating five of Brazil's 10 sitting Supreme Court justices, including Alexandre de Moraes, has upended the country's political landscape days before the 25 October runoff election, potentially benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro and damaging incumbent Lula.
A four-month Guardian investigation links a fivefold rise in European cocaine seizures to the expanding footprint of Latin American cartels, with one unpublished report suggesting Brazilian group the PCC operates in 16 European countries.
At least five people have died after Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel struck Mexico's Pacific coast, triggering flooding that brought down trees and power poles and submerged homes.
National park officials shut tourist access on Monday when the Iguazu River ran at more than six times its normal rate, then reopened the site a day later as water levels eased.
Bolivia's attorney general has announced a preliminary inquiry into former president Evo Morales and his ex-vice-president over the alleged murder, torture and unlawful detention of European citizens during a 2009 hotel raid in Santa Cruz.
Alvaro Pulido, wanted in the US for years over allegations he bribed senior Venezuelan officials in exchange for state contracts, has been taken into American custody, officials say.
A low-pressure system is expected to bring 50-150mm of rain to Greece, with Skiathos forecast for the highest totals, after Montenegro recorded a 30C gap between its daytime highs and overnight lows.
At least four deaths have been linked to Hurricane Isaias as it moves north, with warnings of flash flooding that could stretch into the Appalachians.
Melbourne man Jordan Yap, 30, who was last in contact with family on 14 September before a planned 10-day solo trek in Peru's Huayhuash range, has been found dead, his friends and family say.
Panama's government declared a state of emergency on Saturday after earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 6.6 and more than 100 aftershocks damaged homes, schools, churches and bridges across all 10 provinces. Officials reported 27 injuries and no deaths.
A leftwing candidate named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has won the mayoral race in Queropalca, a remote district in Peru's central Andes, defeating his far-right rival by 25 votes, local election data shows.
Journalists in Cairo plan a protest this weekend after six colleagues from the independent platform Matsadaash were charged with terrorism offences, with the detainees alleging torture and forced confessions while in police custody.
A superseding indictment unsealed in Manhattan accuses the deposed Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores of running a system of repression; a judge has refused Flores's bid for pretrial release.
A judge in Ensenada is set to rule in the murder trial of three men accused of killing brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their friend Carter Rhoad in Baja California in 2024.
Danish researchers will withhold the recommended birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine from thousands of newborns in Guinea-Bissau after an ethics committee approved the study, prompting four resignations in protest.
Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, and friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were shot dead during a surfing trip to Baja California in April 2024.
The USGS said the quake struck at a depth of 12.6km with an epicentre about 200km from Panama City, lasting about a minute. More than 40 aftershocks followed.
Isaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, with forecasters warning of flash flooding and storm surge along the US northern Gulf coast.
