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Venezuela will name a government representative to the board of opposition broadcaster Globovision, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in speech Tuesday.
The heady smell wafts through the air at the distillery just north of the Haitian capital. Inside, almost four months of unwelcome silence ended recently when conveyor belts began rolling again, churning out thousands of bottles of pure sugar-cane rum.
A weeklong cold snap that has killed at least eight people in Argentina is expected to continue Monday, state media reported.
Tens of thousands of residents began evacuating Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami following Chile’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
A note, written in red and recovered on August 22, filled a nation with hope.
Aid agencies were scrambling Thursday to move as many people as possible into storm shelters as Tropical Storm Tomas approached Haiti with the potential to deal a disastrous blow to a nation still struggling to its feet after a devastating January earthquake.
Heavy rains and flooding Wednesday prompted the closing of the Panama Canal for only the third time in its storied 96-year history.
Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, will head a new U.N. agency created to promote gender equality around the world, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
Mexican authorities have had significant successes against drug traffickers, President Felipe Calderon said in his fourth annual state-of-the-nation speech Thursday, noting that three major kingpins have been captured or killed in the past year.
Fourteen people died and another 25 were arrested Wednesday in drug-gang violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, military police said Wednesday.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom called for calm as a volcanic eruption spread ash over the capital, prompting evacuations and shutting down the city’s international airport.
Authorities launched a massive sweep of the Alemao favela complex in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday morning.
Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take children out of Haiti met with people they thought were a Haitian policeman and a Dominican official the week before being stopped at the border, said interpreters who worked with the group.
A U.S. citizen granted conditional release this week after being jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels could have her sentence commuted and be expelled from the country, a top government official said Thursday.
A former U.S. congressman was among a group of American attorneys accompanying former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he spoke in the country’s capital Friday.
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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