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Opposition leaders arrested, boycotts called, and neighbours angered: Venezuela's governing party has kept its legislative majority in elections that have courted controversy at home and abroad. Around a third of eligible Venezuelan voters backed President Nicolas Maduro's party after more than half of eligible voters didn&

Peru has called a curfew and stopped mining in a region that was already under a state of emergency, after 13 workers kidnapped last month were found dead. The top gold exporter has grappled for years over how to regulate its informal mining industry that's been beset with

A kidnap and robbery trial over the 2016 jewellery heist targeting TV personality Kim Kardashian is starting in France. Medical releases and other high-profile cases have delayed the trial for more than eight years, creating a challenge for the court.

The lights are back on for more than 100,000 people in Puerto Rico after a blackout took out power for the entire US territory. The island's second mass outage this year follows decades of electricity issues.