Tensions rippled through Jamaica’s capital on Tuesday, with security forces squaring off against some residents who want to prevent the extradition of an alleged drug dealer to the United States.
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 have begun to assume different roles to help them survive what could be a months-long effort to bring them to the surface from 2,300 feet below ground, rescue officials said Thursday.
Already devastated this year by a killer earthquake and a deadly cholera outbreak, Haiti felt the brute force Friday of Hurricane Tomas, which could dump up to 15 inches of rain and trigger flash floods and mud slides.
Tropical Storm Tomas — which killed at least five people on St. Lucia — “could pose a significant threat” to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.
Russia plans to help Venezuela build a nuclear power station, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday.
The Chinese government could embrace Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo with pride and respect “with a little twist of the mind,” actor and activist Richard Gere told a small group of activists at a New York rally in honor of Liu, who has been imprisoned by Beijing.
An Argentine pilot accused of participating in “death flights” during the nation’s “dirty war” in the 1970s and ’80s has been extradited from Spain and will face charges Friday, the government’s Judicial News Service reported.
Hundreds of Mexican federal police officers from two opposing groups clashed in Ciudad Juarez over the weekend over allegations of corruption within their ranks.
Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They’re at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
The toll from torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala moved higher Monday, with disaster officials reporting 44 dead, 56 injured and 16 missing.
A fourth earthquake in 24 hours rattled coastal Chile early Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
At least 16 people died and another 22 were injured Wednesday in a fire at a juvenile detention center in El Salvador, said Mauricio Ramirez Landaverde, the interim chief for the national civil police force.
A former Colombian model wanted on drug trafficking charges was captured Wednesday in Argentina, a spokesman for the Argentina Airport Security Police said.
Canadian authorities say they will hold a hearing Wednesday for a man who was removed from a plane Sunday at the request of U.S. authorities for an unspecified warrant.
As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, in the early hours of Sunday morning and opened fire, killing at least 13 people and injuring 13 others in one of the deadliest attacks the city has seen this year, a police official said.
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