Colombia president: Two national police officers held by FARC rescued
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Brazil’s new president-elect vowed to continue her predecessor’s move to fight against inequality and promote human rights and fight poverty in her victory speech Sunday night.
A weapon that was used in the fatal attack on a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico originated in the United States, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Tuesday.
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year — 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.
Thirty-three miners trapped underground in Chile sent a note on Sunday saying they are alive, raising hopes for the first time in the nearly three weeks since the mine collapsed, but officials cautioned it could take months to rescue the workers.
Pediatrician Elizabeth Bellino was supposed to start work in Africa this week. Instead, she found herself trying to save lives Wednesday at a field hospital in Haiti’s capital.
Mexican officials are revealing details of a recently announced agreement that ends a 16-year trucking dispute between Mexico and the United States.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrapped up a week-long trade mission to Cuba Thursday, a trip in which he also pursued another goal — bringing about the release of a jailed U.S. contractor.
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Drug violence in the Mexican state of Chihuahua left 24 people dead in the span of 24 hours this weekend, the state attorney general’s office said Sunday.
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