Mexican father confesses to killing children, prosecutors say
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A Mexican father who said his two young children had been kidnapped — and later told authorities he had sold them to pay a debt — confessed after their bodies were found that he had killed them, prosecutors say.
As criticism of his war on organized crime mounts, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is under increasing pressure to introduce a new security policy.
In case anyone questioned the permanence of Fidel Castro’s recent return to the national stage, this should answer doubts: The former Cuban leader has called the National Assembly into special session Saturday.
After a final day together, in the relative comfort of the regional hospital here, three of the 33 miners who lived trapped together for more than two months were discharged Thursday night, CNN Chile reported.
For years, small groups of Cuban dissidents have taken their demands to the streets, calling for political freedom as they get pushed around and shouted down by swarms of government supporters.
Survivors still emerged from collapsed buildings in Haiti’s devastated capital Sunday, nearly five days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished island nation.
Paraguay’s president is expected to meet with human rights groups Sunday to clarify the effects of a law that temporarily suspends constitutional rights in the north of the country.
Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.
In Chile’s dry Atacama desert, folklore mixes with superstition and superstition blends with religion.
A state of emergency has been declared in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz state, one of four states in the nation battling wildfires, the state-run news agency reported.
In the latest sign of compromise between Cuba and the island’s church leaders, Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church says the government has agreed to free one jailed dissident and relocate six others to prisons closer to their homes.
A Haitian judge will decide Wednesday the fate of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the devastating earthquake in January.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
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.
Three men suspected of being part of a homegrown Canadian terror group participating in terrorist activities are in custody, Canadian law enforcement officials said Thursday.
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