A former Colombian model wanted on drug trafficking charges was captured Wednesday in Argentina, a spokesman for the Argentina Airport Security Police said.
Hurricane Igor weakened late Monday, but maintained its status as a powerful Category 4 storm as it churned in the open waters of the Atlantic.
The U.S. military said Wednesday it plans to send 4,000 more troops to Haiti.
At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.
The United Kingdom has “no doubt” about its sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, a British government minister said Tuesday.
A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti’s capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.
Passengers, angry about slow service, took out their frustration on trains in Sao Paulo, Brazil, bashing windows and damaging at least 17 train cars Tuesday, an official told the national broadcaster.
Aid and increased security were flowing Wednesday into hard-hit areas of Chile, but some residents complained that they still had not received food or water since Saturday’s massive earthquake killed more than 800 people.
A small passenger plane crashed Monday into a hill outside the capital of Honduras, killing all 14 people aboard, officials said.
Thirty-three miners trapped underground in Chile sent a note on Sunday saying they are alive, raising hopes for the first time in the nearly three weeks since the mine collapsed, but officials cautioned it could take months to rescue the workers.
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.
At least 11 passengers were killed and eight others injured Sunday night when assailants set fire to a mass transit bus in San Salvador, El Salvador, police said.
Homicide police in San Diego, California, are investigating Monday’s death of a Mexican man who was beaten and tasered by U.S. border agents three days earlier, officials said.
Police in La Paz, Bolivia, fired tear gas Wednesday to disperse merchants participating in a two-day protest against a proposed law with tough sanctions for selling contraband.
Heavy rains and flooding Wednesday prompted the closing of the Panama Canal for only the third time in its storied 96-year history.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
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