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An Aeromexico flight from France to Mexico was diverted to Montreal, Canada, Sunday because a “person of interest” was on board, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said.
A large oil drilling platform is on its way to the Chilean mine where 33 trapped miners are awaiting rescue and is expected to arrive later Thursday or Friday, an engineer overseeing the drilling said.
Cuba is releasing two more political prisoners who will be sent straight from prison to exile in Spain, the Roman Catholic Church said Friday.
A 23-day hunger strike by Venezuelan students demanding the release of people they identified as political prisoners came to an end Tuesday, the strike’s leader said. CNN affiliate Globovision reported that the strikers reached a deal with the Venezuelan government to free seven prisoners.
A former Uruguayan military officer suspected of participating in Argentina’s “Dirty War” was extradited from Brazil to Argentina to face charges, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported.
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Winds and rain associated with Hurricane Igor lashed Bermuda on Sunday ahead of the storm’s arrival, forecasters said, as the island braced for a potential direct hit.
Venezuelan inspectors, aided by the military, shut down 70 stores Monday as a sanction for allegedly adjusting prices in the wake of a currency devaluation last week, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported, citing the inspection agency.
A team with Los Angeles County Search and Rescue answered Saturday the desperate, but futile, pleas of a mother who believed her young daughter was trapped alive beneath the rubble of a day care center in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Long lines formed under the watchful eye of American and multinational troops as a wide-scale food distribution effort reached capacity Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
More than 3,500 people took refuge in 19 Veracruz state shelters and school classes were canceled Monday in 11 municipalities after flooding caused by Hurricane Karl, which made landfall Friday in southeastern Mexico, the government-run news agency said.
Mexico’s leading opposition party captured most of the 12 governorships at stake in Sunday’s elections, but that doesn’t mean the party is assured of victory in the 2012 presidential election, analysts said Tuesday.
The permanent council of the Organization of American States has approved a resolution asking troops to withdraw from the disputed border area between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Slashing red tape or ignoring ordinarily required paperwork, officials in the United States and the Netherlands have cleared the way for scores of Haitian orphans to leave their earthquake-ravaged homeland, according to officials from the two countries.
A photographer for El Diario newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was gunned down Thursday, the paper said on its website. A second photographer was injured in the shooting.
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