With gas lines across Venezuela growing, a controversial shipping magnate has stepped in to prevent the country from running out of fuel amid the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press has learned.

The coronavirus pandemic has brought a reversal of fortune for Cuban medical diplomacy, as doctors have flown off on new missions to battle COVID-19 in at least 14 countries including Italy and the tiny principality of Andorra on the Spanish-French border.

Some residents of a southern New Mexico village, immigrant advocates and others are raising concerns about an influx of workers in the community as part of the effort to build the border wall during the coronavirus outbreak.

Four older passengers have died aboard Holland America's Zaandam, a ship that is carrying nearly 140 sick passengers and hopes to dock at Port Everglades.

Panama’s Health Ministry announced Saturday that it would allow the Zaandam, which has been at sea since leaving Argentina on March 7, to transit the canal, though no passengers or crew would be allowed to disembark.

The clock is ticking for Anna, a 33-year-old American woman stranded in a Peruvian hotel room and out of life-saving medication to treat her auto-immune disease.

Canada announced Wednesday it is imposing mandatory self-isolation for those returning to Canada under the Quarantine Act.

The head of the United Nations has urged a global cease-fire. So has the Pope. Yet violence keeps battering swaths of Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe as governments struggle to fight both insurgents and the coronavirus pandemic.

The governor hopes to bring that number to 15,000 in the near future, and FEMA will reimburse 75% of the cost of the hotel program, which is intended to house homeless residents who are infected or are medically vulnerable.

In an area about 60 miles to the north of Friday's clash, nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens were ambushed and slain Nov. 4 by suspected drug gang assassins along a remote road.

The Trump administration is prepared to lift sanctions on Venezuela in support of a new proposal to form a transitional government representing allies of both Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, U.S. officials said.

A retired Venezuelan army general indicted alongside Nicolás Maduro has surrendered in Colombia and is being taken by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to New York for arraignment, four people familiar with the situation said Friday.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stood defiant in the face of a $15 million bounty by the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges, calling Donald Trump a "racist cowboy" and warning that he is ready to fight by whatever means necessary should the U.S. and neighboring Colombia dare to invade.

The commander of U.S. Southern Command has potentially been exposed to coronavirus during a visit by the Brazilian president, the second senior military leader to potentially be exposed to the illness.

The highest-ranking judge in Venezuela doled out legal favors to obtain millions in bribes paid through Miami and foreign bank accounts that he spent on chartered private jets, expensive watches and other luxury goods in South Florida, federal prosecutors say.

Puerto Rico is asking U.S. authorities to suspend all domestic and international flights for 14 days as it hopes to further lock down the island to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Puerto Rico on Monday announced a record $787 million financial package to help alleviate the economic impact of the new coronavirus in the U.S. territory.

Canada shut down Parliament and advised against all nonessential travel outside the country Friday while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau governed remotely from his home, in self-imposed quarantine after his wife tested positive for the new coronavirus.

It was the worst massacre in the modern history of Latin America: As many as a thousand Salvadoran civilians, many of them younger than 6, killed by a right-wing military dictatorship backed by the United States.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro announced Friday that he has tested negative for the novel coronavirus. But a growing number of other world leaders appear to have been exposed to the disease.

Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Donald Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads to pass through, according to U.S. agents and officials with knowledge of the damage.

About 1,300 service members from the National Guard and the Army Reserve are now providing shelter for thousands of Puerto Ricans left homeless by a series of earthquakes that devastated the island more than two weeks ago.

The governor said she had ordered an investigation after learning the emergency supplies had been piled in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in September 2017.

The leader of a militia that rounded up migrants at gunpoint along the U.S.-Mexico border has pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge.

A former Canadian Armed Forces reservist plotted with other members of a white supremacist group to carry out "essentially a paramilitary strike" at a Virginia gun rights rally, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.

Puerto Rico has activated more than 650 of its National Guard members with 115 more preparing to travel from New York to help construct and support tent shelters across the southern region of the island where thousands of residents continue to sleep outdoors for fear of another major earthquake.

The palace announced Saturday that the prince and his wife will give up public funding and try to become financially independent.

Each day an estimated 5,000 people flee. The most popular way out is through the Colombian border city of Cucuta. Then comes one of the most difficult parts of the trip: a 125-mile passage that climbs more than 9,000 feet to a long and frigid plateau – El Paramo de Berlin – before descending into the balmy, green city of Bucaramanga.

In remarks to members of the small town of La Mora, which was shattered by the Nov. 4 killings of three women and six children from the extended Langford, LeBaron and Miller families, Mexico's president said the first goal is to bring those responsible to justice.

Nearly 200 Puerto Rico National Guard members are assisting in the recovery efforts following a series of earthquakes this week that have shaken the island and left thousands homeless.

After months of delay, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to let Puerto Rico gain access to nearly $8.3 billion in disaster mitigation funding.