Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.

An unusual request from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about Cuban medical brigades is roiling countries in the Caribbean and the Americas.

Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis tells The Associated Press that his nation is in a financial pickle.

Politicians across Haiti are scrambling for power after Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created.

A prominent developing-world leader on the issue of climate change said Monday that global taxes on the financial services, oil and gas, and shipping industries could drum up hundreds of billions to poorer countries adapt to and cope with global warming.

The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that’s causing it.

The nonprofit Global Citizen announced Thursday a new campaign to support the reform of global banks and climate financing.

World Bank meetings in Washington were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change.

As climate-amped disasters ratchet up the suffering, the staid international finance system designed for an earlier age may be on the brink of change, driven by those on the front lines.

The 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival, which included performances from Metallica, Mariah Carey and Usher, generated more than $2.4 billion in commitments to fight extreme poverty and disease.

The eastern Caribbean island of Barbados has honored Rihanna as a national hero at a historic moment for the nation.

Barbados has stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history.

World leaders are turning up the heat and resorting to end-of-the-world rhetoric in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.