A weeklong cold snap that has killed at least eight people in Argentina is expected to continue Monday, state media reported.
Hurricane Richard made landfall just south of Belize City Sunday night, said CNN Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
The storm known as Igor was moving farther away from Canada on Wednesday morning, but could still produce hurricane-force winds in the area.
Search crews plan to look for a fourth time for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the southern Atlantic Ocean two years ago.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday for seven Americans who have been missing since a charter fishing boat sank off the coast of Mexico nine days ago.
As a Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate said she would demand an investigation of a weekend shooting at a campaign event, one ruling party lawmaker had a different take: The candidate should have seen the violence coming.
Twenty-six people were killed and 15 were rescued from a fire at a rehabilitation center in Lima, Peru, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
Torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala have killed at least 36 people, and could claim as many as 100 lives, the country’s emergency services agency said Sunday.
The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said.
Tropical Depression 7 has intensified into Tropical Storm Earl in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
Cuba criticized U.S. diplomats Saturday for meeting with political opponents after bilateral talks on immigration in Havana, accusing the American diplomats of “promoting subversion.”
Aruban law enforcement are planning to re-enact the disappearance of an American woman last seen six weeks ago in the Caribbean nation, an official with the national prosecutors office said Friday.
Mexican authorities have had significant successes against drug traffickers, President Felipe Calderon said in his fourth annual state-of-the-nation speech Thursday, noting that three major kingpins have been captured or killed in the past year.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced plans to run for re-election.
Mexican federal police have arrested a man who authorities say could have been involved in the March shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the country’s public safety ministry said.
A spokesman for Colombia’s president says the country has never had any intention of attacking Venezuela.
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