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Argentina expands hantavirus probe, sending teams to trap and test rats

Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. Scientists will trap and test rats in Mendoza while awaiting lab results from Ushuaia, authorities said Friday.

 

The killing of a 14-year-old girl gives new energy to Argentina’s femicide protests

The killing this month of a 14-year-old girl in central Argentina has shocked the country, triggering a groundswell of outrage and growing demands for government action against gender-based violence.

 

Under President Milei’s austerity, disabled Argentines risk losing essential services

President Javier Milei of Argentina has cut funding for therapy programs for people with disabilities, affecting an estimated 5 million people.

 

5 things to know about the protests challenging Bolivia’s new president

Less than six months ago, the inauguration of centrist President Rodrigo Paz seemed to usher in a new reality for Bolivians reeling from the worst economic crisis in a generation.

 

Argentines hunting for source of hantavirus outbreak trap rats in southernmost city

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia.

 

Bolivia protesters allied with ex-leader Morales clash with police as unrest widens

Followers of Bolivia’s ex-President Evo Morales have joined a massive protest movement against President Rodrigo Paz.

 

Argentina’s icy outpost at the end of the world fears the hantavirus will chill tourism

The city of Ushuaia in Argentina, which bills itself as the “end of the world,” has found itself at the center of a global media storm involving a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise that departed from its port.

 

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Argentina’s hot spot for Antarctic cruises insists it didn’t cause the hantavirus outbreak

Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine pr

 

Health officials track dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after first fatality

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24.

 

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Hantavirus is on the rise in Argentina, where a stricken cruise ship began its journey

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.

 

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Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak heads to Canary Islands after 3 are evacuated

The U.N. health agency says two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak.

 

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Argentina’s Milei restores press access to presidency after a ban sparks backlash

President Javier Milei of Argentina has restored press access to his government headquarters. It comes more than a week after his decision to block credentialed reporters from the building triggered backlash from lawmakers and press freedom advocates.

 

Mexican governor and mayor indicted by US for drug trafficking step down

Two members of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s party in Sinaloa state have temporarily stepped down after the U.S. charged them with drug trafficking. Gov.

 

Argentine workers mark May Day with protests over Milei’s labor-law overhaul

Argentine workers were protesting in the capital of Buenos Aires as annual May Day demonstrations in the South American nation coincided with smoldering anger over President Javier Milei’s recent overhaul of long-robust labor protections and increased unemployment.

 

With mass evacuation warnings, Israel upends lives and reshapes south Lebanon

The warnings to flee come suddenly: Texts pinging thousands of phones, automated calls from strange numbers, hard-to-read maps shared on social media.

 

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Argentina’s leader bars journalists from government HQ, raising concerns about press freedom

Argentine President Javier Milei has blocked journalists from the government headquarters and insulted the media on social media.

 

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Eyewitnesses recount three deadly Israeli strikes on medics in southern Lebanon

Israeli strikes targeted three different medical teams in the span of mere minutes in southern Lebanon, killing four medics and wounding six.

 

A fragile calm in Lebanon as a US-brokered truce holds and families head home

A fragile calm has settled over parts of Lebanon as a 10-day ceasefire brokered by the United States takes hold between Israel and Hezbollah.

 

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Consecutive Israeli strikes kill 4 Lebanese medics as Israel-Hezbollah war grinds on

Paramedic groups say the Israeli military has killed four Lebanese rescue workers and wounded six others in three consecutive, targeted strikes.

 

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A baby born in a tent on a Beirut roadside struggles to survive, her family displaced by war

A newborn baby struggles in a tent along Beirut’s waterfront. Her mother says Shiman was born 16 days ago there.

 

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Lebanese bury 13 officers killed by Israel as grief and outrage surge ahead of talks in the US

Mourners in Lebanon are burying 13 state security officers killed when Israeli airstrikes hit their office headquarters in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh. Funeral scenes similar to this one Saturday have played out hundreds of times across the country in recent weeks, as Israel intensifies

 

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Tracking where Israel bombed central Beirut on the war’s deadliest day

Israel’s intense barrage of airstrikes on Wednesday hit without warning deep inside the Lebanese capital of Beirut, blowing buildings open to the elements and reducing apartment blocks to rubble in parts of the city that have traditionally escaped attack.

 

Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon’s health care system, as it did Gaza’s

Since the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah reignited on March 2, Israel has pushed deeper into southern Lebanon.

 

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Displaced by war, Lebanon’s Christians mark Easter far from their homes and churches

Many Lebanese Christians are marking Easter far from their homes and churches, displaced by Israel’s war with the militant Hezbollah group. The Rev.

 

Beirut is bursting as over 1 million people flee Israeli strikes and evacuation orders

Beirut is bursting under a massive wave of displaced people as Israel’s attacks and evacuation orders drive families out of southern and eastern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs.

 

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Iran remains a stubborn foe after absorbing massive US-Israeli attacks

Since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28, the Trump administration claims to have all but “obliterated” the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities.

 

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Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon kills 3 journalists covering the war

An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon has killed three journalists who cover the Israel-Hezbollah war, according to their TV stations.

 

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Milei’s overhaul of Argentina labor law advances in Congress as unions strike in protest

Argentina’s largest labor unions have held a nationwide strike to protest President Javier Milei’s flagship overhaul of the country’s labor law.

 

DEA quietly resumes anti-drug coordination with Bolivia almost 20 years since its expulsion

A top Bolivian official says the United States has resumed intelligence coordination on counternarcotics efforts with Bolivia under its new president.

 

Argentina’s Senate backs President Milei’s contentious labor overhaul after protests

Argentina’s Senate has given its overall approval to a labor overhaul that is considered crucial to President Javier Milei’s shock therapy program after hours of debate that unfolded in the shadow of a mass protest outside Congress.

 

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