Cuba lashes out at the U.S. over criticism of prisoner’s death
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The Cuban government defended its rights record and slammed the United States for its criticism over the death of prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza.
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A grenade blast in Monterrey, Mexico wounded 14 people Sunday, including eight minors, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing local officials.
The permanent council of the Organization of American States has approved a resolution asking troops to withdraw from the disputed border area between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Mexican authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Zetas drug cartel leader who was connected with the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this year.
He has influenced convicted terrorists such as Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber. His sermons were found in the apartment of suicide bombers who struck London, England, in 2005. Even one of the 9/11 plotters is said to have been a follower of Sheik Abdullah El-Faisal.
It’s a case that has become emblematic of the risks involved in international adoption.
A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet’s nucleus.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been asked to investigate whether Panama tortured an Ecuadorian citizen who was being held as an illegal immigrant, an official hemispheric human rights organization said.
Prince William splashed down a helicopter in a Canadian lake Monday, while his newlywed bride Catherine watched from shore — all part of a full slate of activities on Prince Edward Island on the fifth day of the royal couple’s Canadian tour.
In the clear shallow waters off Cancun in Mexico, 200 ghostly figures are slowly lowered to the seabed.
We had heard about a drug in Colombia that essentially eliminates free-will in humans. It is called scopolamine and it seemed to us to be so completely out there–like a plot device in an awful Jack Black movie. In fact, it sounded so horrible and strange that we wanted to go down and try it out. So the producers and I compiled a laundry list of embarrassing chores for me to complete while under the influence and, chuckling hysterically to ourselves, got on a plane and headed for Bogota, Columbia.
Disturbances broke out Thursday on the streets of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, as national police protested the government’s cancellation of bonuses and promotions, images on the official Ecuador TV showed.
There have been no reports of major damage or injuries in the wake of a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, according to the country’s leader.
Mexico’s interior secretary is expressing concern over a mob action in Mexico City that left dozens of police officers injured.
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