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Brothers sought in slaying of high-profile Guatemalan lawyer

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Guatemalan authorities have issued arrest warrants for two prominent brothers in connection with last year’s slaying of a lawyer who left behind a videotape saying President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him, the suspects’ attorney confirmed Wednesday.

Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday.

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.

Eleven children from the same extended family died over the weekend in a lake in Brazil after the boat they were in overturned, police said.

Brazilian voters head to the polls Sunday in a general election that spans across all levels of government, from the presidency to local offices.

Day 1: Resolute Bay

After intensifying into a hurricane, Tomas lashed the islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent with heavy rains and gusty winds Saturday, forecasters said.

A top leader of a leftist guerrilla group in Colombia may have been killed during a bombing of a rebel camp, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.

Tropical Storm Hermine is expected to cross into Texas on Tuesday after striking the Mexican coast about 40 miles south of the U.S. border Monday night, the National Hurricane Center reported.

Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday after becoming a hurricane earlier in the day and intensifying to Category 2 strength, forecasters said.

Hurricane Tomas could unleash more rain on Haiti and the Dominican Republic as it moves farther away from Hispaniola this weekend.

Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in the Mexican capital.

Federal authorities arrested a second person in connection with last weekend’s massacre at a house party in southern Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that killed 15 people, government officials said Saturday.

Tensions rippled through Jamaica’s capital on Tuesday, with security forces squaring off against some residents who want to prevent the extradition of an alleged drug dealer to the United States.

The president of a Venezuelan TV station that has been critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday at an airport on charges that he abused his right to free speech.

Child slavery has escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans, according to an advocate who works in the Caribbean nation.


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