Eight people died early Monday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when a city bus and a police ambulance collided, the government news agency reported.
Should Mexican drug cartels be considered terrorist organizations? They murder, plot, kidnap, and dismember bodies. They’re also responsible for shootouts, explosions, fires and other atrocities.
Seven Colombian national police officers were killed Sunday in an attack by suspected guerrillas in northern Colombia, defense ministry spokesman Javier Flores told CNN.
U.S. and Mexican authorities were scouring the seas Monday for five people missing more than a day after a tourist boat carrying 43 people capsized off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
There’s a post-9/11 atmosphere in Kingston, Jamaica, local residents say, after a failed police assault on the stronghold of a suspected drug kingpin wanted by the United States.
The World Bank will support Central American security efforts with $1 billion in loans for the next two years, Guatemalan state media reported Wednesday.
For the last 15 years, Victoria Vigo has been trying to find the truth about her infertility. After her third child was born dead, the 49-year-old leadership skills instructor who lives in Lima, the Peruvian capital, was never able to conceive again.
The International Monetary Fund whittled the candidate pool for its top post Monday, saying it would consider just two contenders, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and Mexican Central Bank chief Agustin Carstens.
A municipal police officer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was burned alive by unknown attackers in broad daylight in front of several witnesses who said they saw the officer writhing as he died, officials said Tuesday.
A journalists’ organization has called on the Mexican government to rescue four journalists believed held hostage by a drug cartel.
A 14-year-old American citizen has been found guilty in a Mexican court of torturing and beheading at least four people and kidnapping three others.
The mother of three Mexicans jailed in Malaysia for allegedly manufacturing drugs is pleading for authorities to intervene in their case. They face death by hanging if convicted.
Mario Santos likely never made it to the United States.
A large oil drilling platform arrived Thursday at the Chilean mine where 33 trapped miners are awaiting rescue.
An accused international arms dealer known as “The Merchant of Death” is expected to make a court appearance Wednesday afternoon in New York after his extradition from Thailand.
The Ecuadorian government on Tuesday declared the U.S. ambassador in that country, Heather Hodges, persona non grata and asked her to leave as soon as possible, the state-run Andes news agency reported. The decision was based on a State Department cable made public by WikiLeaks, it said.
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