Simon Mendoza-Moreno works as a primary care provider at a community health centre in Wenatchee, Washington, mainly serving low-income patients. The 25-year-old is also an undocumented immigrant, who was six months old when his parents brought him from Mexico.

The companies behind the Dakota Access Pipeline have asked a US court to intervene in the fight over its completion as demonstrators across North America on Tuesday protested the project over fears it would pollute water supplies and destroy sacred Native American tribal sites.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Cuba to boost ties as a breakthrough in the communist island’s US relations hung in the balance following Donald Trump’s presidential election win.

Venezuela’s high court ordered the opposition to drop plans for a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, whose rivals blame him for food shortages in the volatile country.

President Tayyip Erdogan could govern Turkey until 2029 with expanded executive powers under proposals the ruling AK Party hopes will go to a referendum next spring, officials who have seen the latest draft told Reuters yesterday.

Fresh testimony yesterday from survivors of a deadly shipwreck in the Mediterranean raised the likely death toll for the past 48 hours to 240 people, confirming fears of rescuers who had warned dozens probably died.

Political outsider Emmanuel Macron yesterday joined the increasingly unpredictable race for France’s presidency, vowing to take on “the same men and the same ideas” that dominate national politics.

New Zealand emergency services and defence personnel evacuated hundreds of tourists and residents from a small South Island town amid more strong aftershocks, a day after a powerful earthquake killed two people.

An Indonesian court sentenced an American to life in prison yesterday for smuggling a large quantity of crystal meth into the country from China, state news agency Antara reported.

Jakarta’s Christian governor was formally named a suspect in a blasphemy investigation yesterday, after allegations that he insulted a religion sparked a violent mass protest by hardliners in the Indonesian capital.

A controversial mining tycoon has taken over a royal palace and flown in Brazilian dancers at a reported cost Rs5bn ($75mn) to celebrate his daughter’s wedding yesterday, as the country reels from a cash crisis.

Major opposition parties, including the Congress and Trinamool Congress, yesterday took on the government outside parliament over the acute problems faced by people following the “financial calamity” unleashed by the surprise demonetisation move.