Church: Cuba to free dissident, transfer six others
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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.
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The first time I heard anything about people living in the sewers in Colombia was back at the beginning of the ’90s. The sewage system running under Bogota’s streets was filled with packs of kids living waist-deep in human waste and taking in copious amounts of glue and crack in order to cope.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging countries in the Gulf region to support Iraq’s newly created government as she prepares to head to an international forum on development and the environment.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was meeting Tuesday morning with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 40 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
Describing himself as the “new kid on the block,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said this weekend’s G8 and G-20 summits in Canada should be about “more than big talk.”
Environmentalists and indigenous-rights supporters gathered in the Brazilian capital Tuesday to protest a hydroelectric dam project that they say would be devastating to the Amazon region.
A military jury at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday recommended a 14-year prison term for Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese man who served as cook and driver for Osama bin Laden.
A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti’s capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Tacna in the southern border of Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey 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.
The foggy desert morning quickly gave way to a sizzling afternoon at the San Jose Mine in northern Chile — not the typical place one would think to partake in independence day festivities. But for the families of the 33 miners who have been trapped in the mine since August 5, it provided the community spirit needed to make the best of a difficult situation.
It’s 7:55 a.m. and miner Javier Avarca arrives in the early morning chill to the San Jose mine in Chile to begin a 12-hour shift.
More than 2 million people were affected by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile early Saturday, President Michelle Bachelet said in a televised news conference.
The nearly 100 children living at an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, are hungry and thirsty, and desperately waiting for aid, a member of the orphan’s foundation told CNN on Saturday.
An Argentinean court has charged and ordered the arrest of a man who allegedly fathered ten children with his daughter, a local government agency reported Saturday.
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