Just over 100 million poultry died or were culled due to avian influenza between the start of October and Feb. 3, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health.

Haiti is at the extreme end of the security challenges for the U.S. in the hemisphere. However, its unprecedented gang violence isn’t the only issue.

By law, the U.S. can’t supply Haiti with weapons or ammunition. But there is plenty else: Night vision goggles, advanced combat telescopic rifle scopes, riot helmets, ballistic vests with plates that can sustain piercing rounds. The U.S. has donated hundreds of battle-ready uniforms along with several armored vehicles.

People in China, India, Pakistan and Peru live in greatest danger of tsunamis from melting glaciers, a study says.

Beijing also stepped up protests against the U.S. military’s decision to shoot down the suspected spy balloon that traversed the United States last week.

The Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft, a CP-140 Aurora, was observed patrolling Haiti’s airspace on Saturday much to the surprise and curiosity of many Haitians.

Brazil's navy said Friday night that it had carried out a "planned and controlled" operation to sink a decommissioned aircraft carrier nearly 220 miles off its coast

The balloon incident, on the eve of such a critical meeting, raises questions over whether it was an accident or a deliberate effort by Beijing to send a message to Washington.

Majid Khan was captured in 2003 and taken to secret CIA facilities, where he was subject to harsh interrogation tactics before being sent to Guantanamo.

The nonbinding motion says the ethnic minority group faces “pressure and intimidation” to return to China, where they risk torture, detention and forced labor.

The number of migrants taken into custody along the southern border dropped 40% in January, the largest one-month decline since Biden took office.

With South America’s fifth-largest economy paralyzed by highway roadblocks, Peru finds itself at an agonizing political impasse.

The Cuban government is turning to Russia for help with market reforms on the island through a partnership with a Russian think tank headed by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska, as the two countries vow to take their relationship to “a new level.”

Abdul Wasi Safi, 27, served as an intelligence officer for the special operations corps of the U.S.-backed Afghan defense forces. He traveled from Brazil to Texas, and his case has drawn pleas from veterans groups and lawmakers asking for his release

The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday intercepted the 396 people near Cay Sal Bank, a remote island about 30 miles off the northern coast of Cuba.

Mexico’s former top law enforcement official Genaro Garcia Luna made millions moonlighting as an enabler for the Sinaloa Cartel even as he stood as a symbol of his country’s struggling war on the narcotics trafficking trade, prosecutors said at the start of his trial.

Since Oct. 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, the Coast Guard has intercepted close to 5,000 people from Cuba at sea and about 1,200 people from Haiti attempting to migrate to the U.S.

For conservative wunderkind Nikolas Ferreira, the election last fall was a triumph: He garnered more votes than any other member of Brazil’s Congress.

The soldier was deployed as part of a nearly 2-year-old state mission known as Operation Lone Star, in which Guard members are partnered with state police to deter criminal activity between legal ports-of-entry along the Texas border with Mexico.