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Jamaica’s prime minister Wednesday rejected allegations that he was “a known criminal affiliate” of a suspected drug lord, calling them “libellous,” “scurrilous” and “malicious.”
Pope Benedict XVI will appoint a special envoy to run a Mexican Catholic order whose founder abused minor-age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the Vatican said Saturday.
Tropical Storm Matthew formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
In this corner of Mexico, people don’t mention the devil by name. So if you hear the phrases “Triple X” (el Triple Equis) or “The Letter”, (La Letra) you know people are obliquely referring to the warring factions in one of Mexico’s most brutal drug war battlegrounds.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Monday castigated Venezuela for its recent record on freedom of expression in a letter sent to the country’s foreign minister.
A heat wave of historic proportions could strike some northeastern states as forecasters warn of prolonged triple digit temperatures that could trigger “a dangerous situation,” the National Weather Service advised Monday.
Aid is reaching earthquake-torn Haiti, but getting it to the people who need it remains a challenge.
Canadian authorities say they will hold a hearing Wednesday for a man who was removed from a plane Sunday at the request of U.S. authorities for an unspecified warrant.
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine since August 5 have been told “clearly,” for the first time, that they will be stranded in the mine for three to four months, given the current rescue plan timetable, Andre Sougarret, the head of the rescue operation, said Friday.
Anxious family members and exhausted rescue workers reveled in joyful relief after a drill pierced the roof of an underground mine in Chile where 33 men have been trapped since August 5.
The sun had not risen yet on that February day in 1986 when Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s eight-vehicle motorcade of luxury cars and jeeps arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport, then named for his father.
A right-wing paramilitary leader in Colombia was killed in a police operation on Christmas Day, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Wednesday.
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.
A number of Latin American countries have rushed to offer their support to Argentina in its long-running territorial dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
A French doctor’s report suggests that the strain of cholera ravaging Haiti may have originated with U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, but U.N. officials and others cautioned that the report was inconclusive.
A Swiss law that took effect Tuesday blocked millions of dollars held in bank accounts belonging to former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who made a stunning return to his homeland last month.
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