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One phone call brought the 41-year-old memory back to George Hopkins instantly, flooding him with the terror of having a .38-caliber pistol jabbed into his face.
Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi who fled Germany in 1961 and founded a cult-like commune in Chile, died Saturday in a prison hospital.
Search-and-rescue efforts at a supermarket in Haiti’s capital have ended after teams determined no one else was alive beneath the rubble, an official told CNN Wednesday.
Mexican Supreme Court of Justice minister Jesus Gudino Pelayo died from a heart attack Sunday while on vacation in England, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
Costa Rica’s president has declared Friday and Saturday national days of mourning after mudslides buried homes and killed at least 20 people in the Central American country, officials said.
The threat of an explosive device on board prompted the diversion of an Air France flight headed from Rio de Janiero, Brazil, to Paris, France, the airline said in a statement.
A bus traveling south of Ecuador’s capital lost control Sunday, killing 42 people and injuring 11 others, officials said.
Fifty-two Cuban political prisoners are set to be freed and will be allowed to leave the country, Cuba’s Roman Catholic church announced Wednesday in a written statement. It would be one of Cuba’s largest prisoner releases in recent history.
The toll from torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala moved higher Monday, with disaster officials reporting 44 dead, 56 injured and 16 missing.
One of a small number of women who have filled a void by becoming police chiefs in violence-torn Mexico was gunned down Monday, authorities said.
Sloths are fantastically weird animals, the junkies of the jungle who seem to spend their lives either nodding off or scratching and occasionally eating a bean or two before drifting back to what looks like a blissful sleep.
The man who disguised himself as an elderly passenger on an Air Canada flight is an “ordinary citizen” of the People’s Republic of China who probably used a smuggling ring to obtain false documents and arrange the plan, his lawyer said Monday.
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