The alleged leader of a regional branch of the Los Zetas drug cartel was arrested by the Mexican Army Wednesday, Mexico’s state news agency Notimex reported.
Hurricane Igor ballooned into a major Atlantic Ocean hurricane on Sunday with top winds of 135 mph (215 km/h), but remained far from land, forecasters reported.
Maria Jesus Mancha had just come from burying her son.
I’ve seen very few dead people in my life. I saw my grandparents and a few friends who passed away, but all of them looked peaceful resting in their coffins. But I had never seen murdered people until recently: lying on the sidewalk, face-down in puddles of their own blood.
Officials in Ciudad Juarez are looking for the perpetrators of a prison massacre, as details emerge about the late Monday incident that left 17 inmates dead.
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Venezuela’s telecommunications regulator, Conatel, fined private television broadcaster Globovision 7.5% of its gross income for alleged violations of the country’s media responsibility laws.
The chemistry of the world’s oceans is changing at a rate not seen for 65 million years, with far-reaching implications for marine biodiversity and food security, according to a new United Nations study released Thursday.
Mexican federal police interrupted a weekend massacre-in-the-making in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, motel and captured two hit men working for a major cartel in the city, a spokesman for the federal police told CNN Monday.
The Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has sued the Chilean government for more than $13 million, alleging his human rights were violated when Chile extradited him last year to Peru to face charges in the death of a Peruvian woman.
A brazen daylight shooting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday afternoon left four people dead and injured two others, including a 5-year-old boy, a Juarez municipal police spokesman told CNN.
Oil from a small leak in Brazilian waters — the second in less than two months — has reached the shores of Rio de Janeiro state, environmental authorities said.
Hurricane Irene whipped the northern coast of the Dominican Republic early Tuesday as the slowly strengthening storm continued its march through the northern Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said.
Haiti’s former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, said he is “ready” to return to the country from South Africa “today, tomorrow, at any time.” He did not offer any definite plans to go back to the ravaged country.
A top drug cartel leader may have been killed in clashes with police this week, a Mexican government spokesman said.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed a decree Tuesday requiring all ships navigating from Argentina to the disputed Falkland Islands to carry a government permit.
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