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Six of the suspected gunmen responsible for the killings of 72 migrants in Mexico have been identified, Mexican authorities said Monday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
Even as a relative calm settled Friday over much of Haiti after days of charged protests, the United Nations’ top official in the Caribbean nation warned that demonstrators threatened to worsen a cholera outbreak that has already killed at least 1,100 people.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
Mexican President Felipe Calderon travels to Washington on Thursday to meet with President Barack Obama, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and others during a two-day visit likely to include discussions on organized crime, immigration and commerce.
The 33 miners trapped far below the surface of the Earth appear in mind and spirit to be as strong as “solid rock” and are working well together as a team, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Thursday.
Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal miner, but on the morning of February 19, 2006 he had to go down into the Pasta de Conchos mine near here to fix a broken cart that couldn’t haul the coal out.
Heavy rains and flooding Wednesday prompted the closing of the Panama Canal for only the third time in its storied 96-year history.
Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in Chile are depending on food, medicine and supplies being dropped to them through a 4-inch-wide tube.
Images appearing to show former Cuban President Fidel Castro surfaced Saturday on a pro-government blog, which claims the photos were taken Wednesday.
A 13-year-old boy has been detained in Argentina in connection with a beating death Tuesday during the national Day of Spring celebrations, the official state-run news agency said Thursday.
Cubans hit the polls across the country Sunday, voting in municipal assembly elections that the government hopes will soften criticism about democracy — or lack thereof — in the communist nation.
At least 19 people died and 23 were injured in a Tuesday morning crash between a truck and a bus on a highway near Chile’s capital, officials said.
Brazilian officials have said they will continue to crack down on farms accused of forcing workers into slave-like conditions, the country’s labor ministry said after authorities rescued nearly 150 workers.
The mayor of El Naranjo, Mexico, in the central state of San Luis Potosi was gunned down and killed inside his office Wednesday, officials said.
Fifteen Mexican defendants charged in the United States with crimes ranging from murder to money laundering to drug trafficking have been extradited to the U.S., the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Alex became a minimal hurricane with top winds of 75 mph Tuesday night as it headed toward the Gulf Coast near the U.S.-Mexico border, the National Hurricane Center reported.
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