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A law allowing same-sex weddings took effect Thursday in Mexico City, one day after the second same-sex marriage was performed in Argentina.
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.
Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will be granted safe passage to the Dominican Republic as a guest, resolving a diplomatic impasse that kept him trapped in Honduras, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez told CNN Wednesday.
Lelly Laurentus thought he was doing the right thing when he handed his two young children over to an American woman who promised to take them to a better place.
Jean Baptiste Vanise suffers the anguish no mother should have to bear.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They’re at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
The devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck poverty-stricken Haiti just over a week ago offers a unique opportunity for reforming the country’s economy and institutions, a former U.S. envoy to Haiti said Thursday.
The only thing that seemed to frighten Pedro Munoz that dark morning was that a guilty conscience would haunt him if he did nothing.
In most places, when 16 people are gunned down, the local media reports the incident without missing a beat.
Gunshots rang out and the smell of tear gas filled the air in a crowded tent city outside Haiti’s destroyed presidential palace Monday night in one of the most serious confrontations since an earthquake decimated the city.
Thirty-three Haitians were released Thursday from immigration detention facilities in Florida, more than two months after they arrived in the United States lacking proper immigration papers in the aftermath of their country’s devastating earthquake.
Wolves should be reintroduced in U.S. national parks to help restore damaged ecosystems, according to a new report.
Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina’s last dictator, who is on trial on charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s.
She gingerly walked from the car and shuffled up the small hill, her eyes welled in tears.
Cuba has begun moving some of its jailed dissidents to prisons that are closer to their homes, according to Elizardo Sanchez, head of Cuba’s independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
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