Brazil’s official football federation, CBF, fired its national team’s coach and his technical commission just hours after the arrival of the team’s flight at the Rio de Janeiro Airport on Sunday.
The body of a girl whose disappearance triggered a public outcry in Argentina was found naked inside a garbage bag in Buenos Aires Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
An Argentinian court is expected to render its verdict Wednesday in the trial of a former dictator on charges of human rights abuses during the nation’s right-wing rule from 1976-83, the government’s Judicial Information Center said.
“Chino! Chino! Chino!” is a familiar refrain at the rallies for Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, who on Sunday won the right to participate in a runoff election this June.
An Argentina federal court released a 423-page decree Tuesday detailing the facts against a former dictator sentenced last month to 25 years in prison for violating human rights.
Only three bodies have been found near the site where a boat carrying about 100 migrants capsized off the Dominican Republic’s coast, authorities said Monday.
More than 3,500 people took refuge in 19 Veracruz state shelters and school classes were canceled Monday in 11 municipalities after flooding caused by Hurricane Karl, which made landfall Friday in southeastern Mexico, the government-run news agency said.
In the latest sign of compromise between Cuba and church leaders, Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church says the government has agreed to free one jailed dissident and relocate six others to prisons closer to their homes.
Two members of the U.S. Olympic delegation — both gold medalists from previous Olympics — suffered minor injuries Sunday in an accident as they were traveling in Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade, the White House said.
Venezuela’s state-run television network aired video images Tuesday of President Hugo Chavez meeting with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez’s face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-age man who has seen suffering and miracles at once.
NASA experts will present options and recommendations Friday evening after assessing the situations and needs of the 33 miners trapped far below the surface of the Earth.
A Brazilian court has upheld the 30-year sentence of a rancher convicted in the 2005 killing of an American nun who dedicated herself to protecting the Amazon rain forest.
A 4-year-old U.S. citizen who was unable to enter the country this month because of a possible communications mix-up is expected to attempt the journey again on Wednesday, according to her lawyer.
The head of Cuba’s Catholic Church urged Havana to reconcile differences with its nemesis Washington as one step in averting the worst crisis that has befallen the communist island in recent times.
Guatemalans head to the polls Sunday in a presidential election that could put a retired army general in power.
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