Dozens dead, more than 500 in custody after violence in Jamaica
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Police in Jamaica have more than 500 people in custody, the government said Wednesday, after a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin resulted in violence that left dozens of people dead.
A Japanese man accused of operating a drug trafficking ring between Mexico and Japan was arrested in Mexico last week, the Ministry of Public Security said Saturday.
Argentina became the first Latin American country on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage.
Gilberto Angulos does not need to say a word to tell the tale of working 30 years in Chile’s mines. His broken body does all the talking for him.
A passenger on the Air Canada flight in which a young Asian man boarded disguised as an elderly man says she tried to warn the crew about the mask but was rebuffed.
Mexican officials are revealing details of a recently announced agreement that ends a 16-year trucking dispute between Mexico and the United States.
An icy cold front that swept through northern Mexico over the weekend left 65 zoo animals dead, the zoo’s owner told CNN on Monday.
An American who set up a school for homeless street boys in Cap-Haitien could face nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing some of the same children he sheltered, clothed and educated.
A strong aftershock rocked Haiti on Wednesday morning just as much-needed medical aid was set to reach the earthquake-ravaged nation.
The United Nations stepped up its defense Thursday of its beleaguered boss with high-level staffers speaking out in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in Chile are depending on food, medicine and supplies being dropped to them through a 4-inch-wide tube.
A spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that up to 3 million people may have been affected by Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti as aid organizations and governments deployed response teams and pledged resources to the disaster-stricken Caribbean nation.
A former Argentinian dictator and an ex-army chief are scheduled to go on trial this week on charges of human rights abuses during the nation’s right-wing rule from 1976-83, the government’s Judicial Information Center said.
American government contractor Alan Gross went on trial in Cuba Friday in a case that appears to have derailed a tentative rapprochement between the long-estranged countries.
Tropical Storm Alex is expected to strengthen into a hurricane but is heading away from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Two people were confirmed dead when an airplane carrying at least 47 passengers and crew members crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, but there were survivors, government and hospital officials said.
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