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  1. Mayor shot dead in Mexico months after surviving assassination attempt
    By Thomas Graham

    Valentín Lavín Romero is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in 2024

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Mexico #Organisedcrime #ClaudiaSheinbaum #Americas #Worldnews #TheGuardian #ThomasGraham

  2. Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds
    By Kat Lay Global health correspondent

    Global hunger declined for the third year in a row in 2025 but experts call for action to bring down costs of fruit, vegetables and dairy as report shows 2.69bn people can’t afford to eat well

    theguardian.com/global-develop

    #Globaldevelopment #Hunger #Poverty #UnitedNations #Africa #AsiaPacific #Americas #WorldHealthOrganization #Health #Foodpoverty #Worldnews #TheGuardian #KatLayGlobalhealthcorrespondent

  3. It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone?
    By Constance Malleret in Sertânia and Monteiro, Brazil. Photographs by Leonardo Carrato for the Guardian

    Despite official claims that the São Francisco River project supplies 12m people, many of those who had to make way for its construction in 2007 still have no water at all

    theguardian.com/global-develop

    #Globaldevelopment #Accesstowater #Water #Drought #Brazil #Worldnews #Environment #Americas #TheGuardian #ConstanceMalleretinSertnia #Monteiro #BrazilPhotographsbyLeonardoCarratofortheGuardian

  4. Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America
    By Mark Hillsdon

    In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Environment #Deforestation #Loggingandlandclearing #Guatemala #Treesandforests #Americas #Conservation #Worldnews #TheGuardian #MarkHillsdon

  5. Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America
    By Mark Hillsdon

    In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Environment #Deforestation #Loggingandlandclearing #Guatemala #Treesandforests #Americas #Conservation #Worldnews #TheGuardian #MarkHillsdon

  6. The Falklands-Malvinas and fundamental rights | Letters
    By Guardian Staff

    Jack Ford of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly says the Falkland Islands are British because that is the wish of the people who live there, in response to an article by Simon Jenkins. Plus letters from Marcelo Alberto Albarenque and Lucian Comoy

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

    #FalklandIslands #Argentina #UKnews #Americas #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  7. The Falklands-Malvinas and fundamental rights | Letters
    By Guardian Staff

    Jack Ford of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly says the Falkland Islands are British because that is the wish of the people who live there, in response to an article by Simon Jenkins. Plus letters from Marcelo Alberto Albarenque and Lucian Comoy

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

    #FalklandIslands #Argentina #UKnews #Americas #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

  8. Nicaragua’s congress announces ‘work plan’ to suspend elections
    By Tiago Rogero South America correspondent

    US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regime

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Nicaragua #Worldnews #Americas #DanielOrtega #TheGuardian #TiagoRogeroSouthAmericacorrespondent

  9. Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover
    By Emma Bryce

    Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Cetaceans #Whales #Dominica #Zoology #Biology #Americas #Caribbean #Environment #Marinelife #Wildlife #Science #Worldnews #TheGuardian #EmmaBryce

  10. Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover
    By Emma Bryce

    Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Cetaceans #Whales #Dominica #Zoology #Biology #Americas #Caribbean #Environment #Marinelife #Wildlife #Science #Worldnews #TheGuardian #EmmaBryce

  11. Canada cancels joint bridge-opening celebration with US amid trade tensions
    By Associated Press

    The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goods

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #USnews #Canada #Detroit #Americas #Worldnews #DonaldTrump #Tariffs #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress

  12. Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
    By Agence France-Presse

    Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Cuba #Americas #Business #Hotels #Caribbean #Travel #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePresse

  13. Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
    By Agence France-Presse

    Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Cuba #Americas #Business #Hotels #Caribbean #Travel #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePresse

  14. Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
    By Agence France-Presse

    Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Cuba #Americas #Business #Hotels #Caribbean #Travel #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePresse

  15. Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
    By Agence France-Presse

    Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Cuba #Americas #Business #Hotels #Caribbean #Travel #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePresse

  16. US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
    By Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana

    State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Cuba #Americas #Caribbean #USforeignpolicy #USnews #MarcoRubio #Worldnews #TheGuardian #RuaridhNicollinHavana

  17. US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
    By Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana

    State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Cuba #Americas #Caribbean #USforeignpolicy #USnews #MarcoRubio #Worldnews #TheGuardian #RuaridhNicollinHavana

  18. First Nations groups devastated by Canada’s wildfires say government did not help
    By Olivia Bowden in Toronto

    Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Canada #Wildfires #Canadawildfires #Americas #Worldnews #Indigenouspeoples #Emergencyservices #Climatecrisis #Environment #TheGuardian #OliviaBowdeninToronto

  19. First Nations groups devastated by Canada’s wildfires say government did not help
    By Olivia Bowden in Toronto

    Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Canada #Wildfires #Canadawildfires #Americas #Worldnews #Indigenouspeoples #Emergencyservices #Climatecrisis #Environment #TheGuardian #OliviaBowdeninToronto