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Canada’s Cabinet ministers are in hot water for their government’s plans to spend nearly $2 million building a man-made lake for this month’s G20 summit.
An explosion in a house in southern Pakistan killed six people Friday morning, police said.
Authorities were working to determine Saturday what caused a helicopter crash that killed nine people in southeastern Mexico.
Dancers have put on a dazzling display atop extravagant floats at the legendary annual Rio Carnival. Thousands of revelers cheered as dancers shimmied and shook their colorful costumes through the streets of the Brazilian capital.
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In the 10 weeks since an epidemic erupted in Haiti, cholera has killed more than 3,000 people — partly because the distribution of health supplies remains a logistical nightmare.
On her way to Haiti, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the United States wouldn’t cut aid to the economically and politically unsettled Caribbean nation — despite major concerns about its recent and upcoming presidential elections.
Two hostages freed by a Colombian rebel group reunited with their family members in the country’s capital Friday.
Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina’s last dictator, who is on trial on charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s.
Two fugitive brothers wanted in the much-publicized slaying of a Guatemalan lawyer last year were being held at a military base Tuesday, one day after they surrendered to authorities from a special United Nations commission, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has declared a state of emergency for the South American nation’s electricity supply and announced a series of billing sanctions and rewards based on a customer’s energy use.
In August, icon is all about music. Presenter Monita Rajpal travels to the Swiss resort of Montreaux which has, for more than four decades, been home to the annual jazz festival.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has reinstated subsidies on petroleum products after protests over higher fuel prices, the state-run news agency ABI reported Friday.
Chilling video captured by a security camera shows more than a dozen armed men carrying out a shooting spree in broad daylight that left eight people dead last month in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s government staged rival demonstrations Sunday in the streets of the capital to mark the anniversary of a popular revolt that overthrew a dictatorship in the South American country in 1958.
In the country that ranks second in the harvest of coca, the plant whose leaves are used in the production of cocaine, the idea to get Peruvian farmers to plant alternative crops is not new.
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