Drilling has begun as part of an effort to reach the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile for more than three weeks, authorities said Tuesday.
A Colombian rebel group is expected to release three hostages Sunday — one more than previously announced — according to a former senator who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them.
Haiti’s political crisis will not be resolved until well into spring as the nation’s election panel announced a timetable for a runoff and subsequent vote tally.
Venezuela routinely violates human rights, often intimidating or punishing citizens based on their political beliefs, an Organization of American States commission said in a report released Wednesday.
Aid is reaching earthquake-torn Haiti, but getting it to the people who need it remains a challenge.
The heady smell wafts through the air at the distillery just north of the Haitian capital. Inside, almost four months of unwelcome silence ended recently when conveyor belts began rolling again, churning out thousands of bottles of pure sugar-cane rum.
Once it clears the Yucatan Peninsula, Tropical Storm Karl could emerge in the Bay of Campeche and became a hurricane by Friday, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday evening.
Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded.
Elementary and middle school classes in the Mexican state of Nayarit will end Friday, three weeks early, due to concerns over safety, the governor announced.
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations brought his country’s complaints about neighbor Colombia to the U.N. secretary-general Monday in the form of a letter explaining his government’s decisions.
A strike in southern Chile over a hike in natural gas prices ended Tuesday after the federal government and city leaders reached an agreement.
The bodies of at least 20 people were found in various sectors of the municipality of Ciudad Madero, Mexico, south of Tamaulipas, state news agency Notimex reported Friday.
A U.S. citizen granted conditional release this week after being jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels could have her sentence commuted and be expelled from the country, a top government official said Thursday.
Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday he regretted the death of a prisoner after a prolonged hunger strike, even as human rights activists reported 30 people were detained on the way to the dissident’s funeral.
The killings of seven journalists in Honduras so far this year have not been seriously investigated by authorities, creating an atmosphere lawlessness and impunity, concluded a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists released Tuesday.
The last agent on the police force in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe is missing, a government official said Wednesday.
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