President Barack Obama will meet with his top security officials Tuesday to get an update on the inquiry into security lapses that allowed a bombing suspect to board a U.S.-bound flight.
Relief supplies were heading into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from ships docked at a reopened pier Thursday, brought into the city on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.
The Uruguayan Ministry of Defense confirmed Sunday it has opened an investigation into an alleged assault in Haiti involving at least five Uruguayan troops deployed in the Caribbean nation as United Nations peacekeepers.
The Chihuahua attorney general’s office said Friday it is investigating whether the car in which two photojournalists were shot Thursday in northern Mexico belonged to a human-rights activist who may have been the intended target.
Mexico’s government will present a new strategy for preventing the kidnapping of migrants Tuesday, the nation’s interior ministry said.
The cemetery was mazelike before the earthquake, but now it’s impossible to navigate, with many of the narrow passages blocked by rubble. It takes Vladimir Duthiers an hour to reach his destination.
American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, believed to be one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug traffickers, was captured Monday, Mexican authorities said.
The Haitian government has declared the search-and-rescue phase over for the survivors of the massive quake, the United Nations said Friday.
As Tropical Storm Igor spins across the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters say the the storm will probably strengthen and become a hurricane later Saturday.
Fourteen people — four of them dance students between the ages of 9 and 19 — were killed late Sunday in northeastern Argentina when a shuttle van and a cargo truck collided, the state-run Telam news agency reported Monday morning.
Experts are examining the exhumed remains of men who fought for Mexico’s independence as part of the country’s bicentennial celebration.
About 300 Indians from eight different ethnic groups have taken about 100 workers hostage on the banks of the Aripuana river to protest the building of a hydroelectric dam over what they consider to be a holy site, Brazilian state media reported Sunday.
Cheering “Viva Chile,” workers early Monday completed the installation of steel tubing to reinforce the path that will be used to bring 33 trapped miners to the surface.
It has appeared repeatedly on Venezuelan state television, government ads, and the even the president’s Twitter account. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new populist slogan.
In the first four months of this year, more than 20,000 illegal migrants boarded the “train of death” at the railhead in Arriaga, southern Mexico, according to diplomats in the region. They all had one aim: “El Norte”, the United States.
A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet’s nucleus.
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