Home to 8% of world’s population the region accounts for 30% of all deaths from Covid-19

China’s president releases statement leaving Russia’s Putin among handful of leaders remaining

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in presidential election

Restructuring could set precedent for future sovereign crises

Donald Trump claims improved ties as he hosts Mexico’s president

Foreign students whose classes have been switched online ordered to leave the USA

Virus is raging across a region with political, social and economic conditions to help it thrive

Crisis is ‘far from over’, says WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

World round-up: Brazil surpasses Italy as country with third-highest fatalities

Pandemic bearing down on region that spent 2019 racked by political crises and social unrest

Andrés Manuel López Obrador says virus curve flattened despite data showing otherwise

An estimated 60,000 disappeared in Mexico’s drug wars. Some were ‘cooked’ in ovens

Mexico’s communion with souls of deceased confounds relatives of Ayotzinapa missing

Security forces overwhelmed by fire power of Sinaloa cartel after arrest of Ovidio Guzmán

Messages attributed to drugs cartel left at site of shooting in state of Michoacán

Supreme court decision likely to severely curb number of people who can seek asylum

Dozens killed as suspected gang members set bar on fire in port of Coatzacoalcos

Texas governor calls shooting ‘a hate crime’, as FBI open domestic terror investigation

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallies country in ‘defence of national dignity’