South America

She made the comments in response to Vice President Kamala Harris telling migrants not to cross over the border into the U.S.

The government of Brazil, building on the strength of a dynamic and resilient society, is sparing no resource in its effort to overcome the scourge of COVID-19.

With poverty and corruption endemic, political reform rare and ineffective and the COVID-19 pandemic making matters worse, there is abundant popular discontent for the totalitarians to exploit. Let us hope they fail.

The demand for burial space coincides with the country's worst wave of the coronavirus.

Voters in Chile elected independents and left-wing candidates to draft a new constitution for the country.

No vaccines should be wasted and oversupply should be used beyond U.S. borders because after all, the pandemic goes beyond personal choice and frontiers.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's racist and misogynist regime threatens global health security.

The South American country has banned the import of the vaccine for 30 days.

Verónica García Fuentes, 36, from the state of Tachira in Venezuela, fell ill with a fever in mid-December, but kept her diagnosis a secret out of fear.

The Geminid meteor shower will reach peak activity on the night of December 13-14.

Fifty countries, including the U.S., were reported to still be "near the peak of their infection curve," according to data compiled by Reuters.

Arce was Bolivia's Minister of Economy and Public Finance during Evo Morales' nearly 14-year presidency.

The spider is believed to be a pink toe tarantula, a species found in South America.

The president wrongly claimed the Mexican border town of Tijuana was in "South America."

Argentina still has real work to do to reach out to its Jewish community and right its past wrongs.

Many politicos are befuddled as to how Latinos could possibly support the president. It's actually fairly simple.

The site was discovered by chance by scientists studying fossilized shark and ray teeth at three locations in South America.

The beds, which can hold up to 330 pounds and cost just $85, were designed and created with the help of a nearby clinic.

The country's daily death toll could potentially surpass 800 by May 11, according to the latest virus projection model by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team.

"With their neighbors inside, some hunters are spending quarantine targeting jaguars, pumas and ocelots," Esteban Payán from Panthera told Newsweek.

Chile joins Brazil and Peru among the worst-hit countries in South America, having reported over 7,500 cases as of Tuesday.

The turtle shell found in Colombia's Tatacoa Desert was found to be eight feet long.

The drug lord imported four hippos into the country, which were housed in his private zoo.

Wasps belonging to the genus Acrotaphus are notable for their size as well as their striking coloration.

Biological evidence suggests the Carib were indeed present in the Bahamas when Columbus arrived. Researchers say it lends more support to his claims of cannibalism.

Sunny skies, high pressures and gentle winds have triggered a marine heatwave in the South Pacific currently heading towards South America.

"The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we," the editors of a leading scientific journal wrote.

Eighty of the 96 known harlequin toad species are considered endangered, critically endangered or extinct in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.

"The crisis has deep roots, but President Macri mismanaged the response, exacerbating poverty and hunger," Dr. Jennifer Pribble of the University of Richmond told Newsweek.

"As far as we know, this is the only example of this practice anywhere in the world," said Sara Juengst from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.