The family of a former Mexican presidential candidate and senator asked authorities Friday to stand back from the case to allow negotiations for his release.
Bruno de Souza, Flamengo’s goal keeper, turned himself in to police Wednesday for questioning related to the kidnapping and murder of a woman believed to have been the goalie’s former lover, Rio de Janeiro police said.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile Saturday was similar in intensity to the fifth most powerful quake recorded since 1900.
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.
High up in the Peruvian Andes an experiment has begun to revitalize an extinct glacier.
Authorities launched a massive sweep of the Alemao favela complex in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday morning.
A new drill in Chile that could speed the rescue of trapped miners arrived at the rescue scene on Friday with great jubilation from families of the workers.
The United Nations Security Council has approved a proposal to send an additional 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers to quake-ravaged Haiti, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
NASA experts will present options and recommendations Friday evening after assessing the situations and needs of the 33 miners trapped far below the surface of the Earth.
Cuba’s sugar harvest this year is the worst it’s been since 1905, the country’s state-run daily newspaper reported.
Canadian authorities say they will hold a hearing Wednesday for a man who was removed from a plane Sunday at the request of U.S. authorities for an unspecified warrant.
On the same day friends and family buried slain photographer Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, the newspaper he worked for, El Diario, in an unprecedented move published an open letter to the drug cartels operating in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Extending U.S. trade preferences for Haiti could create as many as 100,000 jobs that would boost the earthquake-ravaged country’s recovery, former President Bill Clinton said during a visit to the Haitian capital Monday.
The United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti condemned Tuesday violent anti-U.N. clashes that broke out the previous day in two northern Haitian cities, charging that the riots may be politically motivated.
Heavy rains and flooding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and surrounding areas Tuesday killed 95 people and injured at least 93, fire officials said.
Cuba announced a Cabinet reshuffle Friday, sacking the construction minister for undisclosed “errors” and removing the communications minister in order to give him broader oversight over various ministries.
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