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Brazil’s environment minister has declared a state of emergency in 14 states and the capital’s federal district because of a large number of fires, the government’s Agencia Brazil news outlet reported Wednesday.
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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and his wife, Sandra Torres de Colom, have filed for divorce in an attempt to clear the way for the first lady to run for the presidency, Guatemalan Judge Mildred Roca told CNN.
At least 27 people were killed and 52 injured after an oil pipeline exploded Sunday morning in central Mexico, the state-run news agency said.
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A Venezuelan military aircraft crashed Wednesday, but the two-person flight crew parachuted to safety and there were no known fatalities, a civil protection official said.
The United Nations planned to issue an apology Tuesday for peacekeeping troops breaching a Port-au-Prince university during an anti-government protest that turned violent.
Brazilian officials have said they will continue to crack down on farms accused of forcing workers into slave-like conditions, the country’s labor ministry said after authorities rescued nearly 150 workers.
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Rogue national police who held Ecuador’s president captive for 11 hours last week talked about killing him, according to an audio recording the state-run Andes news agency said were police radio transmissions.
Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
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