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Mexican federal authorities say they have arrested a major trafficker of animals in danger of extinction and confiscated 196 birds and other wildlife.
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.
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.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic church has identified 12 more jailed dissidents who are expected to be freed in what would be the largest Cuban prisoner release in more than a decade.
Hurricane Igor ballooned into a major Atlantic Ocean hurricane on Sunday with top winds of 135 mph (215 km/h), but remained far from land, forecasters reported.
Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have been blamed for 171 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, officials said Wednesday.
Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, faces termination because she failed to show up for work on Monday, the day that a personal leave she was given expired.
A new drill in Chile that could speed the rescue of trapped miners arrived at the rescue scene on Friday with great jubilation from families of the workers.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday after strengthening into a hurricane earlier in the day, forecasters said.
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a law allowing for adoption by gay couples in Mexico City is legal.
Seven Cuban former political prisoners started new lives Tuesday in Spain, saying they see their release as the next step toward bringing democracy to their island nation.
Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who controls the impoverished West Kingston enclaves now blockaded by gang members, is likened by experts to both Robin Hood and Pablo Escobar.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Dominican Republic early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
At least 18 prisoners were killed during a long prison riot and a second, shorter riot in northeast Brazil, officials said Tuesday.
Chile is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Honduras more than a year after a coup sent the Central American country into political crisis, Chile’s foreign ministry announced Friday.
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