The Group of 20 summit in South Africa has ended with the glaring absence of the United States — the next country to lead the bloc.

The White House has hit out at South Africa’s leader for "running his mouth" over the United States’ boycott of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg.

Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff between hard-right José Antonio Kast and communist Jeannette Jara.

In Chile, a hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in the presidential runoff.

Chile is bracing for a tense presidential runoff after a first-round vote on Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polarizing the country between the political left and right.

The Trump administration has announced trade frameworks with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

Israeli actor Gal Gadot has been awarded Israel’s Genesis Prize in recognition of her strong support for the country at a time when many in the entertainment industry have criticized it.

Rodrigo Paz has been sworn in as Bolivia’s new president, marking a shift after nearly 20 years of one-party rule.

World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

Argentine President Javier Milei has hailed his party’s resounding victory in midterm congressional elections as a mandate to press forward with radical free-market reforms.

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with Japan's newly elected, ultraconservative leader in Tokyo.

Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has won decisive victories in key districts across the country in midterm elections.

President Donald Trump says the United States could buy Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party.

The Department of Energy says it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy.

The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen.

President Donald Trump has awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously to Charlie Kirk on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don't align with his interests in upcoming elections.

The U.S. Treasury has purchased Argentine pesos and finalized a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank.

World leaders have expressed hope for peace after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas.

Dozens of angry European lawmakers bang their hands on their desks after being denied a moment of silence to honor Charlie Kirk.

The party of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has suffered a sweeping setback in the Buenos Aires provincial election that is viewed as a barometer of the party's performance in congressional midterms next month.

Argentina’s senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda overriding his veto on raising disability benefits.

President Javier Milei of Argentina has fired back at his political opponents and defended his influential sister against claims that she and other close associates profited from a bribery scheme within the country’s disability agency.

Brazil’s federal police say messages found on the telephone of former President Jair Bolsonaro show he once wanted to flee to Argentina and request political asylum.

Early results in Bolivia's presidential election show the country headed for an unprecedented runoff following a vote in which a dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew more votes than the right-wing front-runners, although not enough to secure an outright victory.

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party.

President Javier Milei of Argentina is helping to launch a $1 million initiative to improve diplomatic relations between Israel and several Latin American countries.

Libertarian President Javier Milei has vetoed attempts to increase spending on pensions and expand protections for people with disabilities in Argentina.

The United States and Argentina have announced plans to allow Argentine tourists to travel to the U.S. without a visa.

The testimony of U.S. President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to Buenos Aires has caused an uproar in Argentina.

The fate of Argentina’s state-run oil company has been thrown into doubt as a U.S. judge ordered the cash-strapped country to give up its 51% controlling stake in YPF.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government survived an attempt to dissolve parliament early Thursday morning, with most of his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners voting against the bill.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faces a major test after the opposition submitted a bill Wednesday to dissolve parliament.

Argentina’s highest court has upheld a six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Albania’s main opposition leader has hired Trump-linked campaign consultants and a lobbying firm to help him in the country's May 11 parliamentary election.

Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for over a year.

Five members of Venezuela’s political opposition have left the Argentine diplomatic compound in their country’s capital, Caracas, where they had sheltered for more than a year to avoid arrest and were in the United States on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful have said farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish to be remembered as a simple pastor.

Three days of public viewing of Pope Francis’ body by ordinary mourners and statesmen alike have ended and the pontiff's coffin sealed.

Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy.

Vatican News has reported that Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square on Easter, a day before he died.

The World Health Organization's member countries have agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis.

President Javier Milei says that he will lift most of the country’s strict capital and currency controls next week, a high-stakes gamble made possible by a new loan from the International Monetary Fund.

The International Monetary Fund has reached a preliminary agreement with Argentina on a $20 billion bailout package, providing a reprieve to President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country’s old economic order.

While the world’s leaders were wringing their hands over President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports, Argentina’s right-wing president was ebullient, feted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

Argentine retirees and fans of several soccer teams have clashed with police during a protest in front of Congress in the capital, Buenos Aires, against the economic policies implemented by the government of President Javier Milei.

Voters in Honduras will select candidates from the three main parties to compete in November’s general election for the presidency.

Cryptocurrency prices briefly jumped after President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement he wants the U.S. government to purchase and hold a variety of digital assets in a strategic reserve fund, an announcement that highlights Trump’s growing attempts to use volatile cryptocurrency prices as a barometer of his public support.

Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has signaled that a new and much-anticipated deal with the International Monetary Fund is imminent.

California Democrat Rep. Sam Liccardo is proposing legislation that takes aim at President Donald Trump's meme coin.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power.

The price of bitcoin fell below $90,000 and other cryptocurrencies saw large drops Tuesday morning, erasing some of the gains digital assets have made since President Donald Trump took office on a pro-crypto agenda.

President Donald Trump says “nobody has ever seen anything” like his administration’s sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei is urging conservatives to keep supporting measures to shrink the size of government.

Argentine President Javier Milei is facing a corruption probe into his promotion of a meme coin, which is a highly speculative form of cryptocurrency that’s seen a recent surge in popularity after President Donald Trump and his wife launched tokens of their own.

Billionaire Elon Musk has created a buzz waving a chainsaw in the air at a conservative gathering outside Washington.

A judge in Argentina has been selected to investigate allegations of fraud against President Javier Milei for his brief promotion of a cryptocurrency that collapsed in value hours after it was launched last week.

On a recent hot summer day in Chile, the beaches of Viña del Mar, Concón and Reñaca are packed with holidaymakers sharing yerba mate teas and playing ball.

Argentina's president says he has banned gender-affirming care for people under age 18.

A spokesman says President Javier Milei has ordered Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to “profound differences” with the U.N. agency.

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Argentina’s capital and in cities across the country to protest President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he slammed ‘wokeism,’ feminism and other progressive ideals.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media.

Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week.

U.S. President Donald Trump drew pockets of laughter and a few moans with his blunt comments to an international audience while appearing by video link at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

The crowded scene in the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day featured four of the world’s five wealthiest men, five U.S. presidents, influential sporting figures and two foreign leaders with prime seats on the dais.

For the first time in U.S. history, a president-elect is welcoming foreign leaders for one of the most American political traditions — the peaceful transfer of power.

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is coinciding with an unprecedented string of high-stakes security events in the nation's capital.

President-elect Donald Trump made an appearance with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who was visiting his Mar-a-Lago club.

The Venezuelan opposition leader who the United States recognized as the winner of last year's presidential election has kicked off an international tour that will also take him to the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump calls his Mar-a-Lago resort the "center of the universe.”.

More world leaders are confirming they have been invited to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The Marrakech International Film Festival has bestowed its top prize on “Happy Holidays,” a Palestinian drama set in Israel whose screenplay won an award at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Donald Trump is making threats, traveling abroad, and negotiating with world leaders.

Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves” in a bid to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning political message.

The usual suspects abstained from voting on a seemingly uncontroversial United Nations resolution that denounced violence against women and girls on Thursday — Iran, Russia, North Korea.

Donald Trump has met at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election.

Argentina’s inflation has slowed to 2.7% in October, the lowest level in three years in a win for the libertarian government of President Javier Milei.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has dismissed his foreign minister hours after the country voted against the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba at the U.N. Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino was replaced by the current Argentina’s ambassador to the U.S., Gerardo Werthein, Milei’s spokesman Manuel Adorni announced on his X account.

A series of protests are expected to intensify across Argentina this week over a veto by President Javier Milei of a law that passed last month increasing funding for public universities.

A federal court in Argentina has ordered the “immediate” arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for alleged crimes against humanity committed against dissidents.

U.S. stock indexes reached new heights after drifting higher in a quiet day of trading.

Libertarian President Javier Milei of Argentina has presented the 2025 budget to Congress, outlining policy priorities that reflected his key pledge to kill the country’s chronic fiscal deficit and signaled a new phase of confrontation with lawmakers.

Venezuela’s government has revoked permission for Brazil to serve as custodian of Argentina’s diplomatic missions in the country.

Throughout decades of political change in Argentina, the annual Aug. 7 pilgrimage to St. Cayetano Sanctuary has served as a potent, and grim, reminder that in Argentina, economic despair remains a constant.

Argentine President Javier Milei has told his country's struggling farmers that he was committed to scraping export taxes and rescuing the key agricultural industry.

Argentine President Javier Milei has arrived in Paris, where he is expected to meet French President Emmanuel Macron after tensions escalated between their countries over the Argentine soccer team’s derogatory post-match chants about French players.

On each passing anniversary of the deadly 1994 attack against Argentina’s largest Jewish community center, Diana Malamud said she endures a brutal “Groundhog’s Day.”.

A closely watched measure of inflation in Argentina remained stronger than the libertarian government of President Javier Milei would have hoped.

The most notable thing about the annual Mercosur summit kicking off in Paraguay is an absence — that of Argentine President Javier Milei.

Argentine President Javier Milei is in Brazil to headline a far-right convention after skipping a presidential summit to discuss regional trade policy.

The Bolivian government has summoned the Argentine ambassador to address the country’s claims that the attempted military coup that rattled Bolivia last week was a hoax.

Argentina’s lower house has approved President Javier Milei's sweeping economic overhaul bills, sealing a much-needed legislative victory for the libertarian leader after six months of bruising negotiations and raucous protests that had raised questions about his ability to govern.

Argentina’s self-described anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei met with German officials on Sunday in Berlin.

Wall Street has rallied as Argentina’s president traveled to Italy for the Group of Seven summit buoyed by his first legislative victory.

Argentina’s Senate narrowly approved key state overhaul and tax packages proposed by President Javier Miliei, delivering an initial legislative victory to the libertarian leader in his efforts to enact his promises of radical change.

In a transformative year of elections around the world, voters in democratic countries share a common sentiment: They’re unhappy with their governments and leaders.

A book presentation about neoclassical economic theory may not sound like a crowd-pleaser.