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Mexico’s leading opposition party captured most of the 12 governorships at stake in Sunday’s elections, but that doesn’t mean the party is assured of victory in the 2012 presidential election, analysts said Tuesday.
A news helicopter for Buenos Aires, Argentina, TV station C5N crashed Friday, killing both men on board, the station announced.
More than 111,000 people died in last week’s massive earthquake in Haiti, the government announced, even as it officially ended the search-and-rescue phase of its response to the disaster.
A Peruvian police report leaked Monday says the alleged victim of Joran van der Sloot was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Stephany Flores’ body was found.
A drive-by shooting killed a Juarez, Mexico police officer and wounded two others early Friday, according to the Juarez mayor .
The world marks International Women’s Day on Monday, an annual celebration that highlights their economic, political and social achievements.
Rain associated with Tropical Storm Tomas began falling on Haiti on Thursday afternoon as aid agencies scrambled to move as many people as possible into storm shelters.
The mayor of Piedras Negras, Mexico, and the secretary of public works and transportation in the state of Coahuila were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
At least 17 people were killed after a bus carrying more than 50 passengers plummeted into a ravine and plunged into a river in Peru, state media reported.
The sun had not risen yet on that February day in 1986 when Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s eight-vehicle motorcade of luxury cars and jeeps arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport, then named for his father.
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.
The death toll from heavy floods and mudslides in Mexico has increased to 38, a government agency announced Tuesday.
Steel tubing has begun to be placed to reinforce the path that connects the 33 miners trapped in Chile to the surface, the final step before the extraction of the miners can begin, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Sunday.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital.
The United Nations stepped up its defense Thursday of its beleaguered boss with high-level staffers speaking out in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Like cholera itself, Haiti’s protests against the United Nations spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets on Thursday, demanding the global body get out of their country.
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