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Brazilian football star Adriano appeared before a prosecutor on Wednesday and denied accusations of associating with a top Rio de Janeiro drug gang, state officials and Adriano’s lawyer said.
A group of heavily armed men opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal police spokesman.
A bore hole reached 33 trapped Chilean miners Friday, officials said, but it must be widened before the miners can squeeze through — a process that should take a few weeks.
Having spent its fury on Haiti, Tomas strengthened Saturday back into a hurricane as it spun into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Peru and Yale University have reached an agreement that will return a massive collection of pre-Columbian Inca artifacts to the South American country — a settlement that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.
While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has sparked debate in America on the merits of deepwater drilling, 90 miles away Cuba’s offshore plans are quietly taking shape.
Six jailed Cuban dissidents will be moved to prisons closer to their homes in “the coming hours,” the island’s Roman Catholic Church said Thursday.
A state of emergency has been declared in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz state, one of four states in the nation battling wildfires, the state-run news agency reported.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They’re at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
Argentine authorities rescued 12 people who had become trapped in rubble after a gym in Buenos Aires collapsed Monday. Rescuers continued to search in the debris, but they said they didn’t expect to find anyone else.
The painstaking process of hoisting 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile below ground for more than two months in northern Chile was completed Wednesday night, less than a day after it began, ending a saga that gripped a nation that never gave up hope.
For the second time in less than week, Venezuela has announced the nationalization of a manufacturing plant, this time a privately owned steel mill.
Some of the families camped outside the San Jose mine, waiting for rescuers to reach 33 workers trapped underground, fear Chilean President Sebastian Pinera may be playing politics with the rescue operation in an effort to boost his popularity.
Freed Cuban political prisoners and their families are invited to “explore their options” for possible immigration to the United States, a U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday.
Each morning, millions of city dwellers across the world embark on a mission to beat traffic jams and congested roads, via a variety of transport ranging from modern high-speed trains to noisy tricycles — and even horse and cart.
A heat wave of historic proportions could strike some northeastern states as forecasters warn of prolonged triple digit temperatures that could trigger “a dangerous situation,” the National Weather Service advised Monday.
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