Brazil search of collapsed buildings intensifies; 7 dead
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Brazilian rescuers intensified their search for victims in the rubble of three collapsed buildings in Rio de Janeiro Friday, though they are yet to find any survivors.
Bowing to months of pressure and demonstrations from indigenous communities, Bolivian President Evo Morales has scrapped a plan for the construction of an international highway through a national park that is their ancestral homeland.
Joran van der Sloot on Friday asked for more time to “reflect” on what plea he will make during his murder trial.
Mexico’s government will present a new strategy for preventing the kidnapping of migrants Tuesday, the nation’s interior ministry said.
They delay televised football matches in Brazil and have even brought forward prayer meetings where they are watched abroad.
Hurricane Ophelia grew into a raging Category 4 storm late Saturday as it passed northeast of Bermuda, though it is predicted to weaken considerably before making landfall in Canada on Monday.
At least six people have died in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon from rain associated with former Hurricane Alex, which stormed ashore late Wednesday, the government news agency said Friday.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
Six Haitian orphans, seized by national authorities last week as they prepared to journey to the United States, will be able to leave the earthquake-devastated country Wednesday.
As the clock strikes midnight around the world Saturday, people will usher in a new year with fireworks and festivities, purpose and promises — and a string of resolutions they’ll no doubt break.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s stay in Cuba, where he is being treated for cancer, could last for months, the country’s vice president told a Colombian radio station.
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.
Hurricane Dora weakened to Category 1 strength as it continued to churn in the Pacific Ocean off the northwest coast of Mexico on Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.
The man who disguised himself as an elderly passenger on an Air Canada flight is an “ordinary citizen” from China who probably used a smuggling ring to obtain false documents and arrange the plan, his lawyer said Monday.
The Atlantic gained a second hurricane overnight as Tropical Storm Julia strengthened into a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center reported.
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