South america
European agency advocates using military force to stop maritime 'cocaine highway' - report
This comes as Europe is getting hit by what one DEA officer called “a tsunami of cocaine,” and follows an operation in which a French Navy sniper shot the engine of a high-speed smuggling vessel.
WATCH: Israel's rescue delegation returns home after week of intense aid operations in Venezuela
'We go down with the ship': Meet the homeless youth running Venezuela's earthquake shelters
Silence in the rubble: Inside the desperate race for Venezuela earthquake survivors
Amphibians use scream inaudible to humans for self-defense against predators, new study suggests
Researchers in South America have recorded the use of ultrasound by a frog for defense against predators, a first in the region, shedding light on amphibian behavior.
Easter Island inhabitants had contact with South America over a thousand years ago, study finds
A new study published earlier this week identified breadfruit and other South American crops introduced to an early settlement on Easter Island.
Forest fires kill 51 in Chile, menace urban areas
President Gabriel Boric told the nation in a televised address, "The situation is really very difficult."
The Americas’ best New York-style Jewish deli may be in Mexico City
The idea behind the deli was simple: to boil and bake bagels like those of the East Coast of the US, and offer Mexico City diners elevated versions of Ashkenazi cuisine heavy hitters.
Argentina elects pro-Israel right-winger Javier Milei as president
Milei said he has considered converting to Judaism but worries about how Shabbat observance would clash with the duties of the presidency.
The Jews of Jonestown: Jewish members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple cult
How did a group of Jews end up thousands of miles from their homes, only to die in one of the most infamous events of the 20th century?
Colombia’s president compares Israeli military to Nazis
The Colombian president also tweeted that Gaza is being “converted into a concentration camp.”
Peru pipeline workers unearth ancient children's cemetery
Has Mexico solved the mystery of the Mayan Acropolis of Ek' Balam?
A painting on a stone cover found at the Ek' Balam archaeological site in Mexico may give insight into the ancient Mayans.
US designates seven financiers, operatives as Hezbollah terrorists
One of the designated parties, Amer Mohamed Akil Rada, was responsible for the 1994 terrorist attack against the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in Argentina that killed 85 Jews.
