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5 cops killed in Mexican ambush

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Five Mexican police officers and one civilian were killed in a shootout in a town southeast of Mexico City, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing officials.

A U.S. federal appeals court Friday overturned a court decision to release a Guantanamo detainee accused of helping al Qaeda.

A U.S. man being held in Aruba in connection with the case of a missing American woman will appear in court Monday, a judicial official said.

Joran van der Sloot is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Peru Tuesday for a closed-door hearing about evidence in a case involving the killing of a Peruvian woman.

A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged apartments near a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country’s state-run Notimex agency reported.

A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting new misery on the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.

The head of Cuba’s Catholic Church urged Havana to reconcile differences with its nemesis Washington as one step in averting the worst crisis that has befallen the communist island in recent times.

President Barack Obama on Thursday extended U.S. assistance to Colombia in combating civilian aircraft involved in drug trafficking.

A gaggle of photographers, relatives and fashion advisors traipse after Yuniesky Collazo as she twirls for the camera in a rented pink ball gown in one of Havana’s picturesque plazas.

Venezuela’s National Election Council has suspended voting privileges for 15,500 people. Why? Because the nation’s voter registry says they’re between 111 and 129 years old.

A military jury at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday recommended a 14-year prison term for Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese man who served as cook and driver for Osama bin Laden.

The mother of three Mexicans jailed in Malaysia for allegedly manufacturing drugs is pleading for authorities to intervene in their case. They face death by hanging if convicted.

Almost two years after being ousted from power, ex-Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is ready to return to his homeland, a supporter and political leader told CNN en EspaƱol.

A controversial photography exhibit called “In the Playroom” depicts young children reenacting tragic and violent historical events, including the September 11 attacks and the abuse of inmates at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison.

Canada’s Cabinet ministers are in hot water for their government’s plans to spend nearly $2 million building a man-made lake for this month’s G20 summit.

Rescuers searched for survivors Monday as crews sought to deliver food and water and prevent looting after the fifth strongest earthquake in some 100 years ravaged central and southern Chile.


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