Decision expected on American missionaries in Haiti
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A Haitian judge will decide Wednesday the fate of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the devastating earthquake in January.
The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
Cuba announced a Cabinet reshuffle Friday, sacking the construction minister for undisclosed “errors” and removing the communications minister in order to give him broader oversight over various ministries.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday a high-level drug-trafficking suspect wanted in the United States will be extradited to Venezuela, which also has asked that he be turned over to authorities in that country.
A Cuban court Tuesday commuted the sentence of the nation’s only prisoner facing the death penalty, and instead sentenced him to 30 years in prison, according to the official Cubadebate website.
An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months was arrested over the weekend, officials said.
Haitian officials have postponed a runoff election, originally scheduled for January 16, to decide the troubled nation’s next president.
The Brazilian government “remains highly sensitive to public claims suggesting that terrorist or extremist organizations have a presence” or are active in the country, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
In what authorities described as an ambush-style, noontime attack by armed gunmen, three police officers were killed Wednesday in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, while patrolling outside an elementary school, a municipal police spokesman told CNN.
Ten people, including Americans and Dominicans, carrying 33 children were arrested along the Haitian-Dominican Republic border Saturday, according to Mario Andresol, chief of Haitian National Police.
Violence against journalists in Mexico continues with impunity and has resulted in self-censorship that threatens Mexicans’ right of freedom of expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report released Wednesday.
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.
Police in Bolivia used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who took to the streets protesting a hike on the price of fuels Monday.
It was reality television at its best.
Like any girl her age, Julia Lira likes playing with her friends and siblings but one of her passions has put her center stage in a Brazilian national debate.
Rescue operations were set to continue Thursday in Peru after a possibly overloaded ferry capsized in the Amazon River, killing at least 12 of the officially listed 152 people on board, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
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