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The EU and a South American trade bloc reach a giant trade deal after 25 years of talks

Dec. 06, 2024 17:16 PM EST

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The European Union reached a blockbuster free trade agreement Friday with Brazil, Argentina and the three other South American nations in the Mercosur trade alliance, capping a quarter-century of on-off negotiations even as France vowed to derail the contentious accord....

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Dec. 06, 2024 00:08 AM EST

Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 2024 Relatives grieved at a funeral service for police officer Jeff Petit-Dieu in Haiti. Massive balloons passed through the streets of Santiago, Chile, for a Christmas festival. A person in Cuba cooked soup in the street during a blackout. Farther...

Belem, host of next year's climate talks, is Amazonian city plagued with pollution and violence

Nov. 20, 2024 00:09 AM EST

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first U.N. climate conference to be held in the Amazon. The largest tropical forest in the world stores huge amounts of planet-warming...

What to know from the UN: Leaders speak of emerging threats, hints of war as big meeting nears

Sep. 24, 2024 02:40 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The security cordons are up. The streets are ready to be sealed off. Aircraft from myriad nations are landing in New York. It all means one thing for the eastern part of Manhattan: The yearly gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is at hand. ...