13 dead, 13 injured in Juarez shooting, Mexican police say
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As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, in the early hours of Sunday morning and opened fire, killing at least 13 people and injuring 13 others in one of the deadliest attacks the city has seen this year, a police official said.
A spokesman for Colombia’s president says the country has never had any intention of attacking Venezuela.
Six people, including one minor, were killed Sunday in a natural gas explosion at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, authorities and state media reported.
Lethal assaults on police and prison guards in Guatemala continued over the weekend, with an attack on a national police patrol that killed two officers and left one wounded, authorities said.
Police in Rio de Janeiro are searching for a high-profile soccer player accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of a pregnant woman believed to have been a former lover, officials said Wednesday.
Experts feared Monday that the hurricane that battered Haiti over the weekend could worsen the outbreak of cholera that has killed hundreds of people and hospitalized thousands since it began last month.
About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday.
A third suspect has been arrested in the massacre of 15 people at a house party last month in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican official said Saturday.
Four people died and at least 30,000 residents were affected in southern Mexico as a result of heavy rain and winds from then-Tropical Storm Frank, which has now intensified into a hurricane, the government-run Notimex news agency said Wednesday.
Massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government will begin Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
A domestic passenger plane with 61 passengers and 7 crew members onboard crashed in central Cuba Thursday, state media reported.
Aires Airlines Flight 8250 was seconds away from landing at San Andres airport on a small island off Colombia. The pilot had turned on the seat belt sign and told passengers to stay in their seats. Passengers could see rain and lightning outside their small cabin windows, but nothing was amiss. Everything seemed calm. Normal. Routine.
In the Colombian region of Antioquia, members of 28 extended families develop early-onset Alzheimer’s in their 40s.
Tuesday, January 19
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