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Washington — The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sweeping sanctions on members of an alleged Mexico-based human smuggling network that it says trafficked people from four continents using yachts, hotels and cartel connections, a move officials...

Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this week. While officials said that damage assessments remained...

Laura Bicker,China correspondent , Anthony Zurcher,North America correspondent and Flora DruryUS President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have met for the first time in six years - raising hopes for a de-escalation of tensions between the...

Nick Davis,Mandeville, Jamaica and Rachel HaganGetty ImagesBut once we arrived in central Jamaica we started to see how severely the island had been hit. The town of Mandeville has been, for want of a better word, flattened. A petrol...

The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has declared an investigation into what he called violations committed by his soldiers during the capture of el-Fasher. The announcement by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, came after...

Laura BickerChina correspondent Trump's team has found itself dealing with a stronger China compared to his first term. Beijing has learnt lessons too. It spent the last four years finding new trade partners and relying less on US exports...

Hugo Bachega,Middle East correspondent and Samantha Granville,BeirutReutersOver recent days, Israel intensified its strikes across Lebanon, saying it was targeting Hezbollah positions.A second Israeli operation was reported overnight in the nearby village of Adaisseh, where residents say troops blew...

Nikita YadavBBC News, DelhiNurPhoto via Getty ImagesIt also found that the average person worldwide was exposed to 16 days of extreme heat last year that would not have occurred without climate change."This paints a bleak and undeniable picture...

Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has called on US military leaders to resume testing US nuclear weapons in order to keep pace with other countries such as Russia and China."Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department...

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping have met for talks in South Korea, their first meeting since 2019.Topics of discussion included the drug fentanyl and rare earths, according to Trump, while China says the meeting saw...