Death is everywhere in Playa Grande, a beachfront neighbourhood in Catia del Mar, a city in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira which was devastated by Wednesday’s back-to-back earthquakes, says Rober Javier, who has spent the past two days searching for survivors and bodies. Javier, a musician who plays the …

After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face and enacted stricter policies to tamp down on crime rates that have become a political liability in some vote-rich parts of the country. While much of the public’s …

Soccer fans usually feel upbeat emotions when watching their national team play in a FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1986. But for Iraqi supporters like Hassan Jaber, his country’s participation in this year’s tournament is eliciting conflicting feelings. “On one hand, we haven’t made it in 40 …