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Movie director, James Cameron has teamed up with environmental campaigners in an effort to help Brazilian tribes’ epic fight against the construction of a controversial dam in northern Brazil.
On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated.
A lifelong nature lover, Oscar Aranda studied biology in college and knew he wanted to work somehow with animals at sea.
The head of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel has been captured, Mexican federal police announced.
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.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
President Barack Obama on Thursday extended U.S. assistance to Colombia in combating civilian aircraft involved in drug trafficking.
Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean said Sunday he will contest a pronouncement from Haitian election officials ruling him ineligible to run for president of Haiti.
Describing himself as the “new kid on the block,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said this weekend’s G8 and G-20 summits in Canada should be about “more than big talk.”
The death toll from a powerful car bomb Wednesday morning in Buenaventura, Colombia, rose to six as the day went on, with at least 42 people wounded, authorities said.
Pediatrician Elizabeth Bellino was supposed to start work in Africa this week. Instead, she found herself trying to save lives Wednesday at a field hospital in Haiti’s capital.
A human skull covered in a checker-board pattern; the middle third of a car removed with surgical precision; a claustrophobic elevator with a lowered ceiling.
Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
He’s the face and voice of Mexico’s strategy against drug trafficking and organized crime. In his capacity as national security spokesman, Alejandro Poire has the unenviable task of telling Mexicans — and the world — about his government’s fight against organized crime, which have been widely criticized. CNN’s Rafael Romo asked Poire 10 questions about the status of Mexico’s war on drugs.
She is coming to power holding the hand of a powerful man. Replacing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1 is 63-year-old Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to govern this South American country of more than 200 million people.
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