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.

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.

President Bill Clinton says he is amazed by the massive response to the return of the Clinton Global Initiative.

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.

Two Americans, Oscar Suarez and Magdalena Devil, traveling in Barbados are missing after they took a rented Jet Ski out to sea and did not return, according to the country's national police. (CNN) - A Jet Ski bearing the registration number of one used by two Americans missing in Barbados has been found, according to the press secretary for the Barbadian prime minister. Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, went missing June 24 after they rented a Jet Ski on Holetown Beach. The Jet Ski was recovered Saturday off the coast of the island of Guadeloupe by a French navy ship, according to a news release from Roy Morris, press secretary to Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley. There was no sign of either Suarez or Devil, the release said, citing French authorities.