Chilean officials were awaiting the arrival of a main drill and other equipment to begin boring a rescue shaft in a months-long operation to reach 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks.
Rescuers in Chile expect to reach 33 trapped miners as early as mid-October — sooner than previously expected.
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Argentina’s foreign ministry slammed British officials Tuesday over Prince William’s upcoming deployment in the Falkland Islands.
Carlos Vielmann, a former Guatemalan interior minister wanted on charges of extrajudicial killings, turned himself in to authorities in Spain Thursday morning, his attorney told CNN.
A mistrial has been declared in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from actor John Travolta.
Temporary calm returned to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday as anxious residents remained locked in their homes, awaiting developments in the week-long conflict that has turned their picturesque city into a de facto war zone.
Not all of the earthquake-traumatized Haitians are receiving the aid they need, a U.S. general said Thursday, partly because displaced residents are moving from place to place.
Images appearing to show former Cuban President Fidel Castro surfaced Saturday on a pro-government blog, which claims the photos were taken Wednesday.
Aruba’s general prosecutor vowed Monday that investigators will keep working “to get to the bottom” of what happened to a Maryland woman last seen in early August, even after the only person held in connection with the disappearance likely leaves the Caribbean island.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned to the nation’s capital of Caracas from Cuba, state-run VTV reported Monday morning.
Tens of thousands of residents began evacuating Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami following Chile’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
For decades, Richard St. Denis has advocated for the rights of Americans who, like him, are living with a disability.
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.
At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
The Bolivian government expelled an Iranian minister to avoid a diplomatic rift with Argentina, the country’s foreign minister said.
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