Post-9/11 mood descends on Jamaican capital after gunbattles
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There’s a post-9/11 atmosphere in Kingston, Jamaica, local residents say, after a failed police assault on the stronghold of a suspected drug kingpin wanted by the United States.
As state authorities in Mexico asked federal prosecutors to take over the case of a 14-year-old accused of working as a drug-cartel hit man, the head of a children’s rights organization criticized authorities’ handling of the teen’s detention.
The United Nations planned to issue an apology Tuesday for peacekeeping troops breaching a Port-au-Prince university during an anti-government protest that turned violent.
More than half of the passengers survived after an airplane crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.
The wife of one of the 33 men trapped 2,300 feet below ground in Chile gave birth Tuesday to a daughter, a relative said.
During her darkest hours in captivity, former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt considered death preferable to her ordeal, she said in an interview with CNN’s “Connect the World.”
A suspected leader of a Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico, along with four other alleged cartel members, the Mexican military said.
A hero’s welcome awaits them when they get to the top, not because they did anything markedly noble — besides defy odds — but because they showed us there is hope even when the worst seems certain.
Yasuni National Park in Ecuador’s Amazon region is thought of as the most biologically diverse forest in the world.
Costa Rica’s president has declared Friday and Saturday national days of mourning after mudslides buried homes and killed at least 20 people in the Central American country, officials said.
A decision on whether bail would be granted for 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti may have been delayed Monday because of quake-related electrical problems at the courthouse.
Chilean officials were awaiting the arrival of a main drill and other equipment to begin boring a rescue shaft in a months-long operation to reach 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks.
A high-level Venezuelan official wanted by Spain in connection with links to a Basque terrorist group was due to testify Wednesday in a Venezuelan court looking into his extradition, the South American nation’s top prosecutor said.
Fourteen people were shot and killed at a soccer field in northern Honduras, a police spokesman said Saturday.
Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a prominent Mexican politician kidnapped in May, was released and back at his home Monday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing a party official.
Chile’s Atacama Desert is no place to live. At night it’s a freezing moonscape and when the sun comes up it becomes as hot as a burning skillet.
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