Brazil closed 2024 with annual inflation at 4.83 percent, pushed above target by higher food prices after a year in which crops were hard hit by floods and drought, official data showed Friday.

Argentina said the Chavista leader clings to his position ‘by imposing himself through fear, aggression, murder and prison.’ ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed in a phone call Friday that freedom of expression was not a right to "spread lies." ...