The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Tuesday it had filed two applications with a regional human rights court to move forward on two South American cases.
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.
Authorities in the Mexican border city of Tijuana have seized 105 tons of marijuana, the largest bust in years, the state news agency reported Monday.
I had been standing on the street with Jaime Lerner for less than one minute when a stranger stopped to greet him.
Police in Jamaica have more than 500 people in custody, the government said Wednesday, after a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin resulted in violence that left dozens of people dead.
At least six people have died in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon from rain associated with former Hurricane Alex, which stormed ashore late Wednesday, the government news agency said Friday.
High up in the Peruvian Andes an experiment has begun to revitalize an extinct glacier.
For the Hijos de Acosvinchos soccer team, there was a lot at stake in their match Sunday against Sport Ancash.
Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano erupted Saturday, sending ash and lava spewing nearly a mile into the sky.
Seventeen people were killed and 10 injured in an attack on a party in Torreon, Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex reported, citing a representative of the federal attorney’s general office.
Family members of the deposed Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are reportedly in Canada, a development now being denounced by some in the Tunisian community there.
Carine Exantus should be sitting in her college communications class. Instead, the 22-year-old is teaching herself how to avoid being attacked by the men who live in her new neighborhood — a maze of makeshift shelters spaced so close together that it is hard to get between them but easy to get inside.
She is coming to power holding the hand of a powerful man. Replacing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1 is 63-year-old Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to govern this South American country of more than 200 million people.
An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months, was arrested over the weekend, officials said.
Laws must be obeyed, even if you’re the mayor of one of the largest cities in South America.
Brazil’s new president-elect vowed to continue her predecessor’s move to fight against inequality and promote human rights and fight poverty in her victory speech Sunday night.
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