Latin America

The United States concerned over the recent attacks on US diplomats in Havana with unknown audio devices, which targeted at least 21 diplomats. Some of them reportedly suffering permanent hearing losses and possibly brain injuries as a result.

Category 4 Hurricane Maria's eye is now located over Eastern Puerto Rico. This hurricane could become the most destructive in the region's history.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, expressing readiness to provide earthquake relief assistance and possible searches for the wounded trapped under rubble if needed.

The head of Mexico’s Civil Protection Service revised downwards the death toll from the earthquake in the country to 216.

According to the latest data, 226 people have died in a major earthquake in Mexico.

The UN secretary-general extended condolences to Mexico after a major earthquake had hit the country leaving at least 149 people dead.

Collapse of school in Mexico City due to strong earthquake claims lives of 22 children and 2 adults.

Panamanian President says that the United States should continue to have its embassy in Cuba open.

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro playfully joked that there is a resemblance between himself and late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

While making their rounds Mexican troops were attacked by gang members dressed in fake military uniforms in the city of Teloloapan.

After the results of a new Pew Research poll showing Washington’s popularity with Mexicans to have hit an all-time low circulated among the media, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis met with his military counterparts in Mexico to shore up what is seen to be a rapidly deteriorating relationship between the two one-time close allies.

Nicolas Maduro stated that Venezuela had already begun publishing prices for its oil in Chinese yuan in a bid to avoid the US dollar and counter US sanctions.

A senior Russian official told Sputnik that the UN idea of creating a commission to investigate alleged violations of human rights in Venezuela was counterproductive, adding that only an internal dialogue could solve the crisis in the country.

Brazil’s attorney general has filed charges of obstruction of justice and racketeering against President Michel Temer and six other politicians from his party. In August Temer has already survived a corruption vote.

As US-Venezuelan tensions have further escalated as Washington had imposed new sanctions on Caracas, Venezuela reportedly has stopped using US dollars in oil trade.

According to Survival International, a London-based organization that advocates for indigenous rights, at least ten members of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil’s Amazon Basin were supposedly killed last month by illegal gold miners along the River Jandiatuba in western Brazil.

On 9/11, 1973 Chile's democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, perished, along with thousands of his supporters after the Chilean military, led by General Augusto Pinochet with the support of Washington, mounted a coup that succeeded in overthrowing his government.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed readiness to launch a dialogue with the country's opposition.

Around 40 prisoners classed as "high risk" are feared to be on the loose on the British Virgin Islands.

The International Commission of Jurists concluded in a report that the constitutional amendments made by Venezuela's Supreme Court this spring eventually paralyzed all of the legislative functions in the country.