Brazil “will not bend” to U.S. pressure to seek sanctions against Iran, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brasilia.
Tropical Storm Matthew battered Honduras with heavy rains and winds Friday night, bringing with it a threat of flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.
Guatemalans headed to polls Sunday in a presidential election that could put a retired army general in power.
Guatemalans voted Sunday in a presidential election that could put a retired army general in power.
Canada officially renounced the expiring Kyoto Protocol on Monday, a day after international negotiators agreed to extend the treaty’s limits on carbon emissions blamed for a warming climate.
An Argentine Dirty War-era general has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of five people during the dictatorship.
Rina strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane off the coast of Central America on Monday, as officials in Nicaragua searched for more than two dozen missing storm evacuees.
Once a tropical storm, Colin was downgraded Sunday to a tropical depression before dissipating entirely, the National Hurricane Center said.
Fidel Castro is planning to speak to students at the University of Havana Friday morning, state media reported.
Brazil “will not bend” to U.S. pressure to seek sanctions against Iran, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brasilia.
Rio de Janeiro’s special forces moved quickly and didn’t stop to chat Monday as they peered in windows and knocked on doors in Rocinha, the city’s biggest shantytown.
A third suspect has been arrested in the massacre of 15 people at a house party last month in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican official said Saturday.
Two American pilots involved in a plane collision over the Brazilian Amazon that resulted in the deaths of 154 people were sentenced to community service, a Brazilian judge ruled.
Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednesday to all the charges against him in the 2010 killing of a Peruvian woman.
Investigators say they have a video that may hold clues to how unidentified men managed to drive two open-back trucks filled with 35 bodies through rush-hour traffic and then abandon them, blocking traffic and leaving bodies on the highway.
An Organization of American States human rights commission has asked a court to look into the 1994 disappearance of a Dominican Republic opposition leader shortly after he was taken into custody, the agency said Monday.
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