At least six people have died in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon from rain associated with former Hurricane Alex, which stormed ashore late Wednesday, the government news agency said Friday.
After 16 hours of debate, Argentina’s Senate passed a controversial reform law Saturday that critics say targets media outlets critical of the government.
Former first lady Sandra Torres took her bid for the presidency to Guatemala’s Supreme Court on Friday, arguing that running for the top post is her “political, legal and human right.”
Tropical Storm Paula was moving along the north coast of western Cuba on Thursday, bringing heavy rain and high winds to the island nation despite being downgraded from hurricane status, forecasters said.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas was awarded the European Parliament’s 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Thursday.
A shootout near the U.S.-Mexico border between rival groups with ties to organized crime left 21 people dead Thursday, Mexican police officials said.
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On a visit to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, President Felipe Calderon apologized to the families of 15 people killed in a massacre last month and promised residents that their input would form part of the strategy against drug-related violence.
The front-runner in Haiti’s presidential race denounced Sunday’s national elections, calling for a complete annulment of the vote due to irregularities and ballot-box stuffing.
Doctors in Cuba detected and removed a cancerous tumor from Hugo Chavez’s body, the Venezuelan president announced in a speech broadcast on state-run VTV Thursday night.
Aid and increased security were flowing Wednesday into hard-hit areas of Chile, but some residents complained that they still had not received food or water since Saturday’s massive earthquake killed more than 800 people.
The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday’s ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.
Experts from Chile who helped rescue miners there in October are expected to arrive in northern Mexico Thursday, where nine workers remained trapped in a mine after an explosion, Mexico’s foreign ministry said.
Mexican marines have captured an alleged top leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, handing authorities a major victory in their fight against powerful drug organizations, the government said Sunday.
The depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic region “has reached an unprecedented level,” a loss of 40% from the beginning of the winter to late March, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the United States breached international law by executing a Mexican national.
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