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Within weeks of El Salvador becoming the first country in the world to adopt the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender, the experiment has already run into trouble. A law that...

At least 1,297 people have died in a strong earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday morning, the nation's civil protection agency said in an updated statement on Twitter on Sunday....

Haiti's National Police on Wednesday apprehended the gunmen suspected of killing Haitian President Jovenel Moise earlier in the day at his residence, said reports from the Caribbean island country, citing...

SANTIAGO - Some 68.02 percent of Chile's target population of about 15 million inhabitants, that is 10,340,278 people, has been fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Ministry...

BRASILIA - Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga announced on Wednesday that the government is set to sign a contract with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca next week to produce the active ingredient...

Trump's campaign has so far declined to announce the president's defeat to his rival, former vice President Democrat Joe Biden, saying a large number of mail-in ballots were cast illegally....

After four days of nail-biting suspense following Election Day on Nov 3, former US vice-president Joe Biden was declared president-elect Saturday morning, whose immediate challenges would be to lead and...

BUENOS AIRES - Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Monday urged the public to be "more responsible" in combating the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), warning the pandemic "is not over". "We are...

SAO PAULO - Brazil on Sunday reported 335 more deaths from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 141,741. Authorities in the southeast states...

BRASILIA -- The Brazilian government has created an inter-ministerial working group to coordinate the procurement and distribution of vaccines against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to an announcement published in...