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3 February 2026

  • A large electronic display posting the odds of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris winning the 2024 US election

    Today in Focus
    The people betting on catastrophic world events – podcast

    Prediction markets allow you to put money on everything from the US attacking Iran to Jesus returning. Saahil Desai explains their dizzying rise
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  • An old man looking like an orange waxwork holds up paper with a signature while people stand around him applauding

    Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says

    Rights group says growing authoritarianism and abuses in US, Russia and China threaten global rules-based order

    • Colombian president and Trump put aside insults for amicable White House meeting

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis

    • Trump-Petro meeting could end in detente or discord with Colombia leader

2 February 2026

  • woman in navy blue jacket speaks

    Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status

  • a woman

    Mexico’s president pledges to send aid to Cuba despite US efforts to cut oil access

  • Instagram photo of Júnior Pena

    Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE

  • Iqaluit residents show support for Greenland during a solidarity march through Nunavut.

    Trump’s Greenland threats open old wounds for Inuit across Arctic

  • Fernández wins Costa Rican presidency, steering Latin America further right

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Pure apocalypse’: a photographer’s journey through the Pantanal wildfires

1 February 2026

  • air pollution

    America's dirty divide
    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

    After stories revealed high levels of contamination in neighborhood around factory processing US toxic waste, government announces sweeping array of tactics
  • a woman checks her phone while seated a table with a lit candle on it

    Cuba on the brink as Trump turns up the pressure: ‘There is going to be a real blockade’

    Country is already suffering acute fuel shortage; experts say complete cutoff will be ‘catastrophic’ to its infrastructure
  • Laura Fernández in pink jacket with mic and raised fist

    Costa Rica heads to polls amid fears of authoritarian turn

    Voters to choose president and 57 members of congress, with current president’s hardline pick Laura Fernández expected to win first round

31 January 2026

  • A sad-looking Indigenous woman in a crowd holds a placard with the picture and name of Berta Cáceres

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Justice is optional’: why Trump’s pardon of Honduran ex-president scares nature defenders

    Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists – and the release of Juan Orlando Hernández has reinforced its ‘crisis of impunity’, say critics

30 January 2026

  • Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodríguez.

    Venezuela announces mass amnesty plan for political prisoners dating back to Chavez era

    Delcy Rodríguez also plans to close notorious El Helicoide prison as opposition figures remain wary over new leadership
  • people ride tricycles on a street

    Mexico president says Trump tariffs on Cuba’s oil suppliers could trigger humanitarian crisis

    Island country only has oil enough to last 15-20 days, and 12-hour blackouts have become commonplace

    • Panama supreme court cancels Hong Kong company’s canal contracts

    • Women in prison
      ‘I was overwhelmed, it was a miracle’: the jailed mothers getting a second chance in Colombia

    • Venezuela approves bill to open oil sector to foreign investment after US pressure

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