A mistrial has been declared in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from actor John Travolta.
The man being detained in the disappearance of an American woman in Aruba will appear in court on Monday, the country’s solicitor general said Friday.
Sixteen people were killed in a plane crash Wednesday morning in Recife, Brazil, the country’s air force said.
A prison riot in northern Mexico left two inmates dead and 10 wounded, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
A Mexican father who said his two young children had been kidnapped — and later told authorities he had sold them to pay a debt — confessed after their bodies were found that he had killed them, prosecutors say.
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a coup nearly two years ago, returned to his homeland Saturday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a new Twitter account name — FelipeCalderon. Not terribly catchy but an improvement over his previous moniker — presidente_FC.
Walid Makled Garcia, accused of being one of the world’s top drug lords, was extradited from Colombia to Venezuela on Monday, Venezuelan state media said.
A 17-year-old boy was among the seven people killed in a noon shootout Friday on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, police said Saturday.
Armed men kidnapped 23 oil workers in eastern Colombia Monday, the country’s army said in a statement.
There are days working for CNN when you feel like you are in the final scene of the film “Hotel Rwanda,” hurtling toward an uncertain salvation from a disaster of epic proportions.
Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights will investigate last week’s reported abduction of two Honduran diplomats, the agency said.
An explosion left 14 miners trapped inside a mine shaft in the heart of Mexico’s coal mining region Tuesday, officials said.
Two prominent Cuban dissidents who had refused to leave prison were released against their wishes on Saturday as the Cuban government continues to free opposition activists arrested during a notorious crackdown in 2003.
Two people were confirmed dead when an airplane carrying at least 47 passengers and crew members crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, but there were survivors, government and hospital officials said.
The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince’s St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.
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