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All 64 students and crew on a Canadian ship that sank 300 miles from the Brazilian coast have been rescued, a Canadian air force officer said Friday afternoon.
His return heralded by a siren’s blare and the cries of a happy nation, the first of 33 Chilean miners emerged into a cool desert night early Wednesday after being trapped underground for 69 harrowing days.
The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said.
A special military task force is scheduled to occupy three of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious slums on Sunday in an effort to gain control of the communities from drug gangs.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Cuba Wednesday and called on developing countries to unite against “imperialism and capitalism.”
U.S. contractor Alan P. Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state.
Authorities in Ecuador have banned alcohol sales in an emergency measure to stop contaminated drinks from reaching consumers after at least 21 people died.
The shooting death of a Mexican journalist last week was not due to his work but was related to a “personal problem,” a Chihuahua state attorney’s office spokesman said Monday.
On the first day of school after the earthquake, Medlika Rameau told her classmates about how she was trapped in the rubble of her house with her mother and little sister.
His fate uncertain, Manuel Noriega is being returned Sunday to Panama, nearly 22 years after the former dictator was forcibly removed from office by U.S. forces.
As Mexico approaches its bicentennial, Mexico’s president says his country is fighting significant security problems — many of which are fueled by U.S. policies.
The mayor and a council member were gunned down Wednesday in a city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in the third occurrence of political assassinations in the past two weeks, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
A 23-day hunger strike by Venezuelan students demanding the release of people they identified as political prisoners came to an end Tuesday, the strike’s leader said. CNN affiliate Globovision reported that the strikers reached a deal with the Venezuelan government to free seven prisoners.
The death toll from a powerful car bomb Wednesday morning in Buenaventura, Colombia, rose to five, with at least 30 others wounded, authorities said.
A young woman was found decapitated in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Tuesday, local officials told CNN.
Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after United Nations officials ordered a medical team to evacuate the area out of security concerns.
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