UNITED STATES: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will launch raids across ten major cities this Sunday, according to the New York Times. The raids are expected to potentially target around 2,000 undocumented immigrants who "have been ordered to be deported."
Just 12 hours after Uber's service became available in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, taxi industry representatives took the company -and the city's administration- to court. The case was similar to those faced by the company in London, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Budapest, Frankfurt, and several US states and Canadian provinces.
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world's oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold. And even then, they've done so while facing tremendous discrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers, and fans.
A man who stabbed his estranged wife to death in front of their child has told a court he "never set out" to kill her. Ricardo Godinho, 41, is accused of murdering Aliny Godhino amid a confrontation during a school run on 8 February.
Since October, almost 700,000 people have been detained crossing the border from Mexico into the US, a huge jump on previous years. The large number of new arrivals has proven to be a polarising issue.
A European Vega rocket has been lost shortly after blast off, the commercial space company Arianespace says. It is the first time in 15 launches that a Vega rocket has failed.
Brazil's lower house of Congress has voted by a large majority to overhaul the country's generous pension system. The vote, with 379 in favor and 131 against, is seen as an important victory for President Jair Bolsonaro.
Mexico's finance minister has quit over differences with the country's left-wing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In a letter, made public on his Twitter account, Finance Secretary Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías said there were many economic "discrepancies".
Swap Jorge Burruchaga for Gonzalo Higuain and perhaps one of the doubts about Lionel Messi's place in the pantheon would have been put to bed years ago. The eternal complaint: that Messi has not won a senior title with Argentina. The eternal comparison: with Diego Maradona in 1986.
A court in Italy has sentenced 24 South American ex-officials to life in prison for illegally detaining, torturing and killing hundreds of opposition activists in the 1970s and 1980s.
Manchester City forward Jesus set up Everton to volley in the opener before scoring the decisive second. Paolo Guerrero had briefly given Peru hope when he equalized from the penalty spot minutes before Jesus struck.
Venezuela's opposition says it has agreed to resume talks with President Nicolás Maduro to try to resolve a prolonged political crisis. A meeting between opposition and government officials will be held in Barbados, self-declared interim President Juan Guaidó says.
The singer-composer was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s. Reports say Gilberto died at home in Rio de Janeiro after a period of illness.
URUGUAY: The results are in from Sunday's presidential primary election. Daniel Martínez, the former mayor of Montevideo, will face off against Luis Lacalle Pou, a senator and the son of former President Luis Alberto Lacalle. The election will be held October 27.
Sean Paul says a "language barrier" is one of the reasons dancehall artists fail to make it big in the UK and the US. He believes it's hard for some people to understand "hardcore patois" - which is a mixture of several languages, including English, spoken in Jamaica.
Mexico: Nearly 70 Central American migrants were taken back to their home countries yesterday on buses from Mexico, where they had remained while they awaited their asylum hearings in the United States.
There is something about South American women from the likes of Shakira, Penelope Cruz, Roselyn Sanchez, to Michelle Rodriguez that is just out of this world gorgeous.
Over the past three months, the number of Central Americans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has jumped exponentially, and total border crossings have reached levels last seen in 2006.
As of August, Cuban independent filmmakers will be allowed to legally produce their work. Decree 373 recognizes the "working status of cinematographic and audiovisual creators" and establishes a national fund for Cuban cinema.
Today, national delegations from 35 countries will congregate in Medellín for the 49th annual General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) for multilateral dialogue on migration, corruption, and regional integration.
After an article published June 21 by the Associated Press exposed the "inhumane conditions" in a particular migrant detention center for children, the U.S. government transferred 270 migrants from that remote border station in Texas yesterday.
Mexican security forces began intensifying their crackdown on Central American migration over the weekend. Security forces have reportedly detained over two hundred migrants after officials declared that the deployment of six thousand National Guard agents was "complete" on Friday.
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