Family of slain woman hopes Van der Sloot’s trial brings healing
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The family of a Peruvian woman slain in Lima last month said it hopes the eventual trial of Joran Van der Sloot can ease its pain and that of another family thousands of miles away.
He comes from one of the most seductive cities on earth and makes art that demands to be touched, yet Ernesto Neto wishes the world was less sexy.
Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in the Mexican capital.
One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and split into two when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
A defiant Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa returned safely to the presidential palace late Thursday after spending hours held by police inside a hospital room outside Quito.
Piercing air horns sounded out Tuesday over the site where workers, drilling to reach 33 Chilean miners, passed the halfway point to the trapped men.
Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, known as “the voice of Latin America” for her songs about the plight of the poor, died Sunday, according to an announcement on her Web site. She was 74.
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.
A popular presidential candidate whose supporters took to the streets of Haiti to protest what they deemed a fraudulent election proposed Tuesday that a fresh round of voting take place.
Peru’s president says Yale University has agreed to return artifacts to the South American country — a move that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.
Officials in Brazil say they fear the death toll may rise after four days of flooding left at least 33 people dead and thousands homeless.
You hear it all the time in Port-au-Prince: “That’s Haiti,” people tell you when things move slowly, when the electricity goes off or traffic mysteriously comes to a halt. Some say it was like that even before a devastating earthquake reduced most homes to a few hours of power from a generator and made some streets impossible to pass.
Tropical Storm Paula, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, has formed in the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
It can be an odd feeling, returning to a place you once lived. Odder still, when that place belonged to the man who trafficked you across continents.
Describing himself as the “new kid on the block,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said this weekend’s G8 and G-20 summits in Canada should be about “more than big talk.”
The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.
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