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Farmer Gustavo Panameño stands in the middle of what is left of his cornfield, hit hard by drought and windstorms, near Santa María Ostuma, in central El Salvador. Many Salvadoran small farmers are feeling the impact of El Niño, as are many others in Central America and the rest of …

Four remain missing as torrential rains from Monday evening to Thursday forced thousands to be evacuated. The death toll from severe flooding in central Greece has risen to 10 people, while another four remained missing, the country’s civil protection minister said. Rescue crews in helicopters and boats ferried hundreds of …

“A cable car? Here in Berlin?” The man cooking my burger at Piri’s – a self-proclaimed dive bar diner in Neukölln, an inner-city neighbourhood in the south-east of the city – is sceptical. “Yeah,” says his Kiwi colleague. “My parents did it. There’s a garden or something.” Both cooks have …

“Knock out hate,” declares Yokasta Valle who has suffered discrimination both for being a woman in a male-dominated sport and as a migrant who journeyed to Costa Rica from Nicaragua. “Many of my colleagues told me that if they, as men, could not become champions, even less so could I …

At least four worshippers were killed while seven others sustained injuries when some sections of the historic Zaria Central Mosque in Kaduna state collapsed on Friday, August 11, 2023.    Confirming the incident, the Emir of Zazzau, Mallam Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, said the victims were observing the Asr prayer around …

Two pregnant girls walk through the center of the capital of El Salvador, a country with one of the highest rates of pregnancies among girls aged 10 to 14, and where, as in the rest of Central America, what prevails are conservative views opposed to the teaching of sex education …

Chris Licht is out at CNN after a tumultuous 13 months as the network’s chairman and CEO. This move was expected after Licht masterminded CNN’s disastrous Donald Trump town hall and had a devastating profile written about him in The Atlantic. None of this is surprising, but the location of …

Fire heavily damaged a clinic in Dnipro, Ukraine, after a Russian strike hit the building.

An alert level was raised on Sunday for a volcano in Central Mexico that was spewing ash and smoke, prompting officials to close schools and public parks, and to prepare for the possibility of evacuations. The National Disaster Prevention Center of Mexico said on Sunday that the alert level was …

One of the rainwater harvesting systems installed in rural settlements in eastern El Salvador, in the Central American Dry Corridor. It is based on a system of pipes and gutters, which run from the rooftop to a polyethylene bag in a rectangular hole dug in the yard. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala …