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The drive into Concepcion couldn’t have been more dramatic. We turned the corner through a dense morning fog onto a main street and a small crowd moved into the streets against traffic. It’s just two days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake toppled walls and collapsed buildings, but people are looting.
A car bomb rocked the headquarters of the Tamaulipas State Public Safety complex in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, the agency said Thursday. No one was hurt; two police cars were damaged, it said in a news release.
Rescue operations were set to continue Thursday in Peru after a possibly overloaded ferry capsized in the Amazon River, killing at least 12 of the officially listed 152 people on board, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
Tropical Storm Tomas formed in the Atlantic Friday and could strengthen into a hurricane by late Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
As Tropical Storm Igor spins across the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters say the the storm will probably strengthen and become a hurricane later Saturday.
Tomas weakened to a tropical storm Sunday and was churning in the Caribbean after pounding the island of St. Vincent with gusty winds and heavy rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
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.
A missing 4-year-old Mexican girl, whose body was found under a mattress in her bedroom, died of asphyxiation, officials said.
Mayors from around the world have signed a voluntary pact committing them to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions at a climate summit in Mexico City.
A war between drug gangs was behind this weekend’s massacre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that left 16 dead, including 10 teenagers, an official told CNN Tuesday.
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Rogue national police who held Ecuador’s president captive for 11 hours last week talked about killing him, according to an audio recording the state-run Andes news agency said were police radio transmissions.
A bus crashed into the side of a mountain Tuesday in western Bolivia, killing at least 13 people and injuring another 26, the government news agency reported.
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