The Mexican Federal Police captured eight people involved in a daylight shootout that paralyzed three sections of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday afternoon, authorities say.
Gunmen shot and killed the mayor of the Mexican town of Guadalupe as his wife and child watched, the mayor of nearby Ciudad Juarez told CNN.
The Brazilian Air Force on Friday dropped eight 500-pound bombs on a clandestine airstrip in the jungle near the Colombian and Venezuelan borders, part of wide military operation that goes beyond targeting drug traffickers.
Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro denounced on Thursday what he says is the inevitable U.S.-backed invasion of Libya by NATO to get its hands on that country’s oil.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Cuba Wednesday and called on developing countries to unite against “imperialism and capitalism.”
The head of Cuba’s Catholic Church urged Havana to reconcile differences with its nemesis Washington as one step in averting the worst crisis that has befallen the communist island in recent times.
It was the type of move that only a head of state could get away with.
An empty chair will represent Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas Wednesday when the European Parliament awards him a top human rights prize.
Unless you live in Whistler, you wouldn’t know that a certain segment of the community is opposed to hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics.
A jury in Kingston, Ontario, resumes its deliberations Sunday in the “honor” murder trial of three members of a Montreal family who are accused of killing four relatives.
The depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic region “has reached an unprecedented level,” a loss of 40% from the beginning of the winter to late March, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
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.
Remnants of Tropical Storm Colin, located about 520 miles south of Bermuda, have regenerated in the Atlantic Ocean back into a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center said.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Friday he “deplores” an early morning attack Friday at a bar in a Medellin suburb that killed at least eight people.
As state authorities in Mexico asked federal prosecutors to take over the case of a 14-year-old accused of working as a drug-cartel hit man, the head of a children’s rights organization criticized authorities’ handling of the teen’s detention.
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