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American among 8 killed in Colombia bar attack, police say

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One of eight people killed in a bar shooting near Medellin, Colombia, early Friday has dual U.S.-Colombian citizenship, Colombian officials said.

A British oil rig has started drilling off the Falkland Islands in a move likely to stoke further tensions between Argentina and the UK over the disputed South Atlantic territory.

Bolivian President Evo Morales was in a hospital Tuesday, three days after knee surgery, but has started physical rehabilitation, the state-run ABI news agency reported.

Honduran prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the country’s six top military commanders for abuse of power in connection with the coup that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last year.

On a field dominated by men, Yanet Moreno is the only woman to step onto the baseball diamond during Cuba’s national championship.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday that Canada has paid off its share of Haiti’s debt to all international financial institutions to help the impoverished island nation recover from January’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet toured the battered seaport of Talcahuano on Thursday, five days after a tsunami caused by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake roared through parts of the city.

A former Miss Argentina died Sunday after complications arising from plastic surgery, the official Telam news agency said.

Two U.S. air marshals who arrested the wife of a Brazilian judge on a flight to Rio de Janeiro — and were themselves arrested and had their passports confiscated by Brazilian authorities — fled the country using alternate travel documents rather than face what they believed to be trumped-up charges, sources said.

Nervous residents in Chile’s capital woke up Sunday morning to more aftershocks, a day after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the world in decades left large swaths of their city in ruins.

Guatemala’s Constitutional Court removed the country’s new attorney general Thursday night — just days after the president appointed him to the post.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Mexico on Tuesday for meetings with President Felipe Calderon and other top Mexican officials on narcotics trafficking and border security.

Matthew weakened into a tropical depression Saturday but continued to drench Central America, bringing with it a threat of flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.


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