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About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday.
At least 35 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a wreck in Ecuador, the Red Cross said Friday.
An icy cold front that swept through northern Mexico over the weekend left 65 zoo animals dead, the zoo’s owner told CNN on Monday.
Police discovered Sunday the remains of five men discarded along the highway between Monterrey and Reynosa, in northern Mexico, Notimex reported. The state news agency said the bodies were naked, except for plastic bags.
The deadly cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 1,100 lives in Haiti has now spread to yet another vulnerable community: the largest prison in the country.
As Tunisia adjusts to a new government, Selma Beji is cautiously optimistic about the future — and freedoms — of her fellow Tunisians.
Search-and-rescue efforts at a supermarket in Haiti’s capital have ended after teams determined no one else was alive beneath the rubble, an official told CNN Wednesday.
Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, faces termination because she failed to show up for work on Monday, the day that a personal leave she was given expired.
Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter.
The lawyer for Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch national accused of killing a 21-year-old woman in Lima, Peru, last year, said Monday he has asked the court to charge his client with the lesser offense of manslaughter.
What was trumpeted as an expected photo-finish in last Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia turned out to be not so close, something that caught the two leading campaigns off guard, their respective candidates told CNN.
As delivery of aid to Haiti is hampered by damaged ports and an overwhelmed airport, another conduit into the earthquake-ravaged nation — its border with the Dominican Republic — has become a challenging crossing itself, a United Nations situation report says.
A 16th person has died from burns suffered in a Sunday night arson attack on a mass transit bus in El Salvador, authorities said Friday. Two other people were shot to death in a separate attack on another bus around the same time.
Charges have been dropped against nine of the American missionaries held in Haiti earlier this year, according to a spokesman for Idaho Sen. Jim Risch.
Rescuers plan to begin hoisting the 33 miners trapped since August 5 nearly half a mile below the surface of the Earth on Wednesday, but the start of the operation could slide into early Thursday, Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Monday.
The foggy desert morning quickly gave way to a sizzling afternoon at the San Jose Mine in northern Chile — not the typical place one would think to partake in independence day festivities. But for the families of the 33 miners who have been trapped in the mine since August 5, it provided the community spirit needed to make the best of a difficult situation.
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