A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, the regional military said Thursday.
Egidio Torre Cantu, brother of slain Mexican gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was chosen by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, to take his place on the ballot, a PRI official told CNN.
Canada’s House of Commons voted 156-145 on Friday on a no-confidence resolution aimed at the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, triggering the dissolution of Parliament and elections in the next few weeks.
Uruguayan officials say they will fully investigate a prison fire early Thursday that killed 12 people and sent eight to the hospital, three of them in critical condition.
Eco-friendly floating restaurants serving sustainable seafood are on the menu for marinas around the world, in a bid to tackle the crisis caused by commercial over-fishing.
Rina weakened to a tropical storm as it neared some of Mexico’s most popular beaches Thursday.
All 64 students and crew on a Canadian ship that sank 300 miles from the Brazilian coast have been rescued, a Canadian air force officer said Friday afternoon.
A 14-year-old American citizen has been found guilty in a Mexican court of torturing and beheading at least four people and kidnapping three others.
The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.
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Environmental activist Philippe Cousteau is to explore the Arctic with CNN to show how scientists in the wilderness are studying climate change in one of the coldest places on the planet.
Police said they were preparing for more disruptions Sunday after groups of protesters burned cars, hurled bricks and smashed windows as they tried to penetrate the fence surrounding the G-20 summit.
A top Panamanian official was negotiating Friday with banana plantation strikers, one day after violent confrontations with federal troops in Bocas del Toro province left one protester dead and more than 100 injured, a government spokesman said.
The mayor-elect of a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz was abducted and killed Monday, the government-run news agency reported.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked reports that his country is building missile launchers in its territory with the help of Iran.
Rio de Janeiro’s special forces moved quickly and didn’t stop to chat Monday as they peered in windows and knocked on doors in Rocinha, the city’s biggest shantytown.
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