Colombia mine explosion kills 11, traps 61, official says
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A coal mine explosion in northwest Colombia has killed at least 11 miners and trapped 61 others, a state government official said Thursday.
At least three people were killed and 17 injured when an avalanche struck a snowmobile competition in western Canada, authorities 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.
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims’ suffering.
Ten people were killed and 18 injured in clashes between “criminal gangs” in a southwestern Mexican town, Mexico’s federal government said Saturday.
Experts are examining the exhumed remains of men who fought for Mexico’s independence as part of the country’s bicentennial celebration.
The death toll from a powerful car bomb Wednesday morning in Buenaventura, Colombia, rose to six as the day went on, with at least 42 people wounded, authorities said.
The death toll from heavy floods and mudslides in Mexico increased Tuesday to 41, a government agency announced.
Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.
Violence in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez left 17 people dead Friday, including two police officers ambushed while on routine patrol.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba Tuesday night with sustained 100 mph winds, forecasters said.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his months-long hunger strike Thursday after the nation’s Roman Catholic Church announced that 52 political prisoners will be released soon, his doctor and other dissidents told CNN.
Once it clears the Yucatan Peninsula, Tropical Storm Karl could emerge in the Bay of Campeche and became a hurricane by Friday, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday evening.
Dozens of people attended a memorial in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, commemorating the one-year anniversary Sunday of a house party massacre that left 15 people dead.
A lawyer for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former Haitian leader living in exile in South Africa, on Saturday pressed the government his client once led to show it is actively taking steps to bring him home.
An American couple in Belize struggled Tuesday to figure out their future, their dreams literally up in smoke after a mob of indigenous Mayans burned down their animal sanctuary in the belief the foreigners fed two missing children to crocodiles on their property.
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