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Guatemala court removes attorney general amid corruption allegations

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Guatemala’s Constitutional Court removed the country’s new attorney general Thursday night — just days after the president appointed him to the post.

A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Rain pours down on rescue workers and volunteers as they zip yet another body into a bag before hoisting it into a waiting helicopter.

Mexican police arrested five heavily armed men and one woman near Cancun as the nation marked its bicentennial year.

Six children were shot in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, neighborhood, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing police.

Fifteen suspects were killed Tuesday in a shootout with soldiers in the tourist town of Taxco, Mexico, the national defense secretary said in a news release.

Two major droughts in Brazil’s Amazon region in the last six years threaten to undermine its role as the planet’s most important carbon sink and a vital brake on climate change, according to new research.

Foreign governments should urgently accept Haitian orphans on humanitarian grounds following this week’s devastating earthquake, an orphanage director in Haiti and adoptive parents said Friday.

The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday’s ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.

The process of extracting 33 miners from a Chilean mine, where they have been trapped for more than two months, is going better than expected, the nation’s health minister told reporters Wednesday.

As many as seven people, including at least one minor, were killed in an explosion at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Sunday, police said.

A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.

The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported.

For the Hijos de Acosvinchos soccer team, there was a lot at stake in their match Sunday against Sport Ancash.

Six Haitian orphans, seized by national authorities last week as they prepared to journey to the United States, will be able to leave the earthquake-devastated country Wednesday.


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