Prosecutors want 25-year sentence for former Argentine dictator
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Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina’s last dictator, who is on trial on charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s.
All that glitters may not be gold, but for Colombia’s narco-molls the most important thing is that it glitters.
Haiti’s capital seemed to spring back to life Wednesday, more than a week after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened many parts of the city and killed tens of thousands.
A French doctor’s report suggests that the strain of cholera ravaging Haiti may have originated with U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, but U.N. officials and others cautioned that the report was inconclusive.
They delay televised football matches in Brazil and have even brought forward prayer meetings where they are watched abroad.
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.
The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California said Monday he is asking the federal government for a natural disaster declaration after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook the region.
Brazil’s new president-elect vowed to continue her predecessor’s move to fight against inequality and promote human rights and fight poverty in her victory speech Sunday night.
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The latest round of United Nations climate change talks begins Monday in the coastal resort city of Cancun, Mexico.
Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that the Communist Party will hold a long-delayed congress next April as the country struggles to reshape its Soviet economic model.
Tropical Storm Tomas killed at least five people on the island of St. Lucia, and the death toll may rise, an emergency official said Tuesday.
A former police chief known for battling drug gangs in the Mexican border city of Tijuana has been named the new top cop in Ciudad Juarez, another city plagued by cartel violence.
Bolivian President Evo Morales was in a hospital Tuesday, three days after knee surgery, but has started physical rehabilitation, the state-run ABI news agency reported.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Tacna in the southern border of Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said.
They traded in their coveralls for suits, but many of the 33 miners who were trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine still sported their protective sunglasses when they appeared at the Chilean presidential palace Monday to accept awards for their ordeal.
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