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Around 300 women dressed in black, symbolizing mourning, marched to the National Congress on the Honduran Women's Day, protesting the surge in feminicides and demanding respect for women's lives

Guatemala has granted approval for the Cerro Blanco gold mining project to shift from underground to open-pit mining, raising concerns from environmentalists about potential water contamination in neighboring El Salvador

Over 620 educational institutions islandwide have been connected to the Internet under the National Broadband Initiative

Mexico’s drought has increased, now covering 28,79% of the country and hitting a record-breaking temperature of 39,5°C in Oaxaca

Carbon emissions from Canada's oil sands are severely underreported, a new study in the journal Science suggests; aircraft-based measures found that the total C emissions from the Athabasca region exceeded reported values by 1.900 to 6.300%

Costa Rica's Supreme Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional that the father's surname must precede the mother's in people's names, thereby eliminating the obligation to place the paternal surname first

Colombia declared a state of disaster and public calamity due to wildfires, seeking international assistance to combat active fires and potential ones exacerbated by the El Niño phenomenon

The bill to establish a cannabis industry in the Bahamas will be introduced in the House of Representatives next month, according to Attorney General Ryan Pinder

El Salvador's teachers took to the streets on January 26 to demand higher pay for this upcoming school year

The United States suspended financial aid for the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees after Israeli allegations that some of the agency's employees were involved in the violent attack by Hamas on Israel on 7 October

The six-month gap at the top of Barbados' leading tourism agency has been filled with the appointment of new CEO Andrea Franklin, a Barbadian marketing professional, and the promotion of a senior official to a new post of chief operating officer

Recent studies show that in 2023, Chile experienced the lowest number of births in the last decade, in a continuous decline in the birth rate