Far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro snagged a thumping win in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election but fell just short of amassing 50 percent votes, required to avoid second-round run-off later this month.

Brazil’s presidential election took a bloody turn on Friday after far-right presidential hopeful, Jair Bolsonaro, sustained “grave” wounds in a knife attack during a campaign rally in the south-east state of Minas Gerais.

Following a marathon debate spanning over 15 hours, Argentina’s Senate voted 38 to 31 against a bill that seeks to legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy in the country dominated by Roman Catholics.

A gunman opened fire on Danforth Avenue in Toronto’s Greektown district leaving an eight-year-old girl dead and 13 others injured on Sunday before being killed in a retaliatory strike by the security agencies.

Decades of Democratic dominance on Mexican politics ended on Sunday as left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador secured a sweeping victory with the widest margin in a presidential election since the 1980s.

Guatemala’s emergency response agency, Conred, has been accused of criminal negligence as it "failed to heed warnings" by the national institute for seismology and volcanology before the Fuego volcano eruption.

A fresh eruption in Guatemala’s Fuego volcano on Tuesday disrupted rescue efforts as the death toll from the catastrophic explosion on Sunday crossed 75 while 192 people remain missing.

At least 25 people were killed and 300 others injured on Sunday after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted and engulfed the village of El Rodeo in a five-mile stream of lava and billowing clouds of black smoke and ash.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected for another term on Sunday even as opposition leaders boycotted the polls and dismissed the results claiming widespread irregularities in the electoral process.