Police: 11 dead after attackers set fire to bus in El Salvador
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At least 11 passengers were killed and eight others injured Sunday night when assailants set fire to a mass transit bus in San Salvador, El Salvador, police said.
A judge ordered the release Thursday of a popular Mexican singer accused of raping a teenager on grounds that not enough evidence existed for trial, state media said.
Battered by a devastating earthquake, left for nearly a year without real homes, promised aid that failed to arrive, the people of Haiti now face a new killer, and the littlest children are among the hardest hit.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro initially rejected a colostomy procedure when he fell ill in 2006, putting his own life at risk, according to an unnamed medical source quoted by U.S. diplomats in cables released by WikiLeaks.
Utility crews struggled early Tuesday to stem the flow from a sewage line near Arizona damaged by suspected drug smugglers who were attempting to dig a tunnel under the Mexico-U.S. border, officials said.
At least eight people have died in a cold snap in Argentina in the past several days, the nation’s state-run news agency reported.
Tens of thousands of residents began evacuating Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami following Chile’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has asked the nation’s Senate to amend the law so that military suspects would be liable in civilian courts for cases involving forced disappearances, torture and rape.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Monday asked congress to overturn his own controversial presidential decree that critics said would have provided amnesty to human rights violators.
Voters in Venezuela headed to the polls Sunday to decide 165 seats out of 167 in the country’s National Assembly.
The former Haitian president forced to flee office during the violent uprising of 2004 has announced that he is ready to return home to help rebuild his earthquake-shattered country.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert for Jamaica on Friday, citing unconfirmed reports of criminal gang members amassing in Kingston and the mobilization of Jamaican defense forces.
Lelly Laurentus thought he was doing the right thing when he handed his two young children over to an American woman who promised to take them to a better place.
Haiti’s former first lady will face President Rene Preval’s handpicked successor in a presidential runoff in January, the country’s Central Election Commission reported Tuesday.
Haiti’s death toll continued to rise Monday as six new deaths from the cholera outbreak were confirmed by an aide to the Haitian health minister.
In an interview with CNN Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated her earlier characterization of the weekend shooting rampage outside an Arizona supermarket as an example of “extremism.”
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