Seventeen people were killed and 10 injured in an attack on a party in Torreon, Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex reported, citing a representative of the federal attorney’s general office.
A policeman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was burned alive Tuesday by unknown attackers in front of several witnesses who saw him writhing in agony as he died.
Gary Giordano, a U.S. citizen held in Aruba in connection with the disappearance of a Maryland woman, was set free Tuesday after months in detention, Giordano’s Aruban attorney Chris Lejuez told CNN.
At least 83 people were killed and several more were injured in a fire that broke out after a riot at a prison in Chile, the country’s president, Sebastian Pinera, told CNN Chile on Wednesday.
The cholera outbreak that was first confirmed last month in northwest Haiti has spread across much of the country, killing close to 1,000 people and entering the makeshift camps teeming with people who were made homeless in January’s massive earthquake, officials said.
The ability of oceans to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide is being hampered by climate change, according to a new scientific study.
A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday.
Mexican authorities dispatched engineers to check damaged houses and buildings Monday in Baja California state following a major earthquake Sunday that left two people dead.
Ten soldiers were killed in an attack in Colombia that the army blamed on the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Brazil, which recently overtook the UK as the world’s sixth-largest economy, has been enjoying a lot of positive press.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
In some places in the Haitian capital, it’s difficult to imagine a year has passed since a massive earthquake wrought unfathomable destruction and misery. The evidence still lies in heaps of rubble and in the words of people — almost everyone can tell a story of survival.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shook hands on the sidelines of Brazil’s presidential inauguration this weekend, state media reported.
In December 2000, Jose Guevara, a former Venezuelan intelligence agent, was introduced by his second cousin to an international fugitive, the target of an international manhunt.
U.S. and Mexican authorities were scouring the seas Monday for five people missing more than a day after a tourist boat carrying 43 people capsized off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
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