Assault on alleged drug kingpin’s stronghold in Jamaica kills 27
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At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.
Six months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to help rebuild the country have not delivered any funds at all, a CNN investigation has found.
Tropical Storm Karl closed on the Mexican coastline ahead of an expected Wednesday morning landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said.
A weapon that was used in the fatal attack on a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico originated in the United States, Mexico’s state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing a U.S. official.
A car bomb rocked the headquarters of the Tamaulipas State Public Safety complex in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, the agency said Thursday. No one was hurt; two police cars were damaged, it said in a news release.
Federal authorities in Argentina are investigating the death of a key witness in a human rights trial that started Tuesday, the official news agency reported.
Their return heralded by a siren’s blare and the relieved cries of a happy nation, the first of 33 miners began emerging into a cool desert night early Wednesday after being trapped underground for 69 harrowing days.
The foggy desert morning quickly gave way to a sizzling afternoon at the San Jose Mine in northern Chile — not the typical place one would think to partake in independence day festivities. But for the families of the 33 miners who have been trapped in the mine since August 5, it provided the community spirit needed to make the best of a difficult situation.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro will make his first major public appearance in years Monday when he discusses “dangerous developments” in the Middle East on a government TV program, the state-run newspaper Granma reported.
Canadian authorities are investigating an “unbelievable” incident in which a passenger boarded an Air Canada flight disguised as an elderly man, according to a confidential alert obtained by CNN.
A day after being rescued following 69 days trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile, all 33 men were briefly together again in a room at the hospital where they have been undergoing tests — and in some cases treatment — since their rescue, a hospital official said.
Costa Rica’s president has declared Friday and Saturday national days of mourning after mudslides buried homes and killed at least 20 people in the Central American country, officials said.
Venezuela routinely violates human rights, often intimidating or punishing citizens based on their political beliefs, an Organization of American States commission said in a report released Wednesday.
A news helicopter for Buenos Aires, Argentina, TV station C5N crashed Friday, killing both men on board, the station announced.
A guard has been killed at a Mexican prison where authorities say the warden let out inmates nightly to commit drug-related slayings, the state-run news agency said.
The family of a Peruvian woman slain in Lima last month said it hopes the eventual trial of Joran Van der Sloot can ease its pain and that of another family thousands of miles away.
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