Archive: February 2011
A brazen daylight shooting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday afternoon left four people dead and injured two others, including a 5-year-old boy, a Juarez municipal police spokesman told CNN.
At least 16 people were killed in southern Brazil at a pre-Carnival party when a power line burst over a party truck, electrocuting revelers, the Minas Gerais state fire department said Monday.
Gunmen opened fire at two different bars in northern Mexico, killing nine people and injuring 12, Mexico’s state news agency reported Sunday, citing the attorney general’s office.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Chile on Sunday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 23 miles south of Concepcion in southern Chile.
Chileans gathered in a candlelight vigil early Sunday morning to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that killed 521 people and left thousands homeless in the South American nation.
The bodies of three family members of a slain Mexican activist were found dumped near a gas station just outside of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state prosecutors announced Friday.
Three children were killed Wednesday night by a group of armed men who were looking for the father of two of the girls, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said Thursday.
Six children were shot in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, neighborhood, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing police.
American aid worker Alan Gross will face trial in Cuba on March 4, according to the U.S. Interest Section in Havana, in a case that is seen as one of the major obstacles to improving relations between the long-estranged countries.
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