Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at a park in Pimentel, near the Peruvian city where he served as bishop, as the Vatican estimated more than 1.5 million people attended.
Hundreds of Chilean bus and lorry drivers blocked major highways to demand relief from diesel prices that industry groups say have risen 74% since March.
Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella says he authorised an air strike in Antioquia that killed eight people, including a senior Gulf Clan member.
Pope Leo XIV starts his Argentina visit at a Catholic home for 400 people with disabilities, with Javier Milei's spending cuts setting up a clash of agendas.
Leonardo Bertulazzi, 74, convicted in absentia for a 1977 kidnapping, escaped house arrest in Buenos Aires by abseiling from a balcony; police are hunting him.
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled that Trinidad and Tobago's colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex intimacy violate the right to private life.
Authorities say 2.5 million people attended Pope Leo XIV's Mass in Palermo, Buenos Aires, the first papal Mass in Argentina since John Paul II's 1987 visit.
A palace aide says King Charles III seeks out the 'tough parts' of the job and will keep being sent into politically charged situations, after a nine-day Caribbean tour.
Pope Leo XIV told Javier Milei in Buenos Aires that Argentina's economy must serve its people, in a critique of the president's austerity on a 12-day tour.