A Human Rights Watch report says the government of El Salvador has arrested 3,319 underage suspects and sentenced 579 during the harsh 2 1/2 year-old crackdown on street gangs. The report issued Tuesday says the minors have been held in “inhumane conditions,” and sometimes in the same facilities with adults.

Authorities in Paraguay announced the largest cocaine seizure in the country’s history as officials were surprised to find more than four tons of the drug stashed inside a shipment of sugar bound for Belgium. President Santiago Peña expressed hope the seizure would disrupt the trade and said police were pursuing those responsible.

A second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya has arrived in Haiti to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. The officers arrived Tuesday, nearly a month after the first contingent of 200 landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where gangs control at least 80% of the territory.

Global leaders expressed concern Sunday over an apparent assassination attempt targeting former U.S. President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania that left one attendee dead and critically injured two others.

In late June, as a group of mountaineers descended a treacherous glacier high in the Peruvian Andes, they spotted a dark, out-of-place lump resting on the blinding white snow. It was a corpse.

Argentina has designated Hamas a terrorist organization and ordered a freeze on the financial assets of the Palestinian group. It is a largely symbolic move as President Javier Milei seeks to align Argentina strongly with the United States and Israel.

Argentine President Javier Milei is tapping the brakes on his shock therapy program in a bid to hold on to popular support amid the country’s bleak economic reality, even if it means unsettling markets.

Canada will announce a “credible, verifiable plan” to increase the size of its military and meet NATO spending targets, according to Defense Minister Bill Blair. The announcement comes as world leaders converge on Washington, D.C. for the NATO summit.

Two weeks after a Chicago woman disappeared from a yoga retreat in The Bahamas, little is being done to find her, according to her family and friends.

Hurricane Beryl was downgraded to a Category 4 storm Tuesday afternoon as it began to tangle with a patch of storm-weakening wind shear, but it was still on track to slam into Jamaica as a dangerous major storm sometime Wednesday.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies reported that China is building a spy base in Cuba, about 50 miles from Guantanamo Bay.

A day after almost 120 people from Haiti arrived in Key West on a migrant sailboat, a small group of Haitians landed on the shores of a gated community about 120 miles away at the opposite end of the Florida Keys, according to local police and federal agents.

Bolivia President Luis Arce late Wednesday swore in a new army commander general after troops led by his predecessor stormed the presidential palace Wednesday in an attempted coup.

A migrant accused of shooting and wounding two NYPD cops in Queens told authorities firing at police was “common practice” back home in Venezuela — although he claimed he didn’t mean to open fire, prosecutors said Wednesday.

When President Biden and former President Trump take the stage in Atlanta on Thursday, immigration and the humanitarian crisis at the southern border will almost certainly be a flashpoint.

Jose Marquez served three years in the U.S. Army and five years in the reserves, but because of convictions for drug crimes, he was deported to the Dominican Republic. It was a long 20-year journey making it back to the United States, where Marquez hopes to become a citizen.

A federal judge called a hearing for Friday morning to decide whether a former American ambassador convicted of being a covert agent for Cuba should be required to pay any victims of his betrayal against the United States in a national security case that rocked both the U.S. intelligence and exile communities.

Polls suggest most voters trust Trump more to handle the border and immigration. A survey conducted last month by Decision Desk HQ and News Nation found 46 percent of registered voters trust Trump more. Twenty-six percent had more faith in Biden, and 13 percent said they were not sure.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday announced major steps to combat the opioid crisis, including sanctions taken against several people affiliated with a Mexican criminal organization officials say is known for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs into the United States