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A power outage in Toronto, Canada, Monday afternoon left some 200,000 customers without electricity, stalled electric-powered passenger trains between stations and stopped much of the city’s downtown, authorities said.
Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in Saturday as Colombia’s new president, vowing to unify his country around the goals of prosperity for all and of thwarting the nation’s leftist rebels.
Fidel Castro appeared publicly in his trademark olive green shirt on Saturday for the first time since he fell ill and renounced power four years ago, according to a state-run website.
A trial started Wednesday for a former Costa Rican president and eight others accused of taking bribes to award a $149 million government mobile phone contract.
Mexico’s government will present a new strategy for preventing the kidnapping of migrants Tuesday, the nation’s interior ministry 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.
Teachers protested for a second day Tuesday and bus drivers staged a partial strike as the general Bolivian population expressed indignation at a sharp spike in gasoline and diesel prices.
Relatives and a lawyer for a Paraguayan soccer player who was shot in the head in Mexico nearly a year ago reject a suspect’s claim that he was not the triggerman.
Photographs obtained by a United Nations-backed justice group in Guatemala could be the smoking gun in a case against a former interior minister and other officials accused of extrajudicial killings, an official said.
Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take 33 children out of Haiti appeared in a preliminary hearing with a judge on Tuesday, court officials said.
Ten Mexican federal police were killed and several others wounded in an ambush on a convoy Monday, the government said.
A rescue drill is 40 meters (about 130 feet) away from reaching 33 trapped Chilean miners and should get to them within 24 hours, the nation’s mining minister said Friday afternoon.
On the heels of an exiled despot’s arrival in Port-au-Prince, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says he is ready to return to help his troubled homeland, an idea welcomed by some and reviled by others who fear a deepening crisis.
Impassable roads, a bottleneck at the damaged airport, an unreachable dock and not enough equipment to unload supplies kept much of the world’s help Friday from desperate Haitians.
A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez’s face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-age man who has seen suffering and miracles at once.
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