Has Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, been lost to the drug cartels?
A landslide in western Guatemala killed at least three people and 10 are missing, officials said Tuesday.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.
A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
At least 45 people, most of them voodoo priests, have been lynched in Haiti since the beginning of the cholera epidemic by angry mobs blaming them for the spread of the disease, officials said.
Federal police have arrested a man they believe is responsible for coordinating the kidnappings of more than 70 migrants later found dead in northern Mexico last year, authorities said Friday.
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After dealing a walloping blow to Haiti, where at least six people died and a number of homes were destroyed, Tropical Storm Tomas was weakening rapidly Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Amnesty International said Monday that a newspaper editor whose decapitated body was found over the weekend in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo appears to have been targeted by a drug gang carrying out a reprisal for her work on social networks.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba Tuesday night with sustained 100 mph winds, forecasters said.
Cuban President Raul Castro has replaced two high-level government ministers — citing errors and incompetence — in the latest round of replacements at top-level government posts.
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.
One lucky boy in Canada can say without a doubt that he has his own personal guardian angel — not of the spiritual kind, but of the furry.
Mexico’s lower chamber of Congress has voted overwhelmingly to strip a lawmaker accused of ties with drug traffickers of his legislative duties, opening up the possibility of prosecution.
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