An Organization of American States commission condemned Monday the slayings last month of three Honduran political activists opposed to a military-led coup that removed the elected president in June.
Thousands packed Havana’s Revolution Square on Saturday for International Workers’ Day, drawing hordes of Cuban demonstrators, spectators, and trade unionists from around the world — including the United States and the United Kingdom.
Heavy rains and flooding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and surrounding areas Tuesday killed 95 people and injured at least 93, fire officials said.
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As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, in the early hours of Sunday morning and opened fire, killing at least 13 people and injuring 13 others in one of the deadliest attacks the city has seen this year, a police official said.
After more than a month in a Haitian jail, an American missionary was free Monday night, looking forward to a hot shower and a long night in bed on home soil.
Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.
We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month, not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon vowed Wednesday that his government “will act to the maximum of our capabilities” to restore order to the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Daisy Cuevas suddenly became an international celebrity after touching on a hot topic during Michelle Obama’s visit to her school last week.
Haitians took recovery efforts into their own hands Thursday as aid workers trickled into the quake-battered capital where impassable roads, damaged docks and clogged airstrips slowed the arrival of critically needed assistance.
Rescuers searched for survivors Monday as crews sought to deliver food and water and prevent looting after the fifth strongest earthquake in 100 years ravaged central and southern Chile.
Two Canadian fighter jets on Saturday escorted a Cathay Pacific Airways flight into Vancouver International Airport in response to a “potential threat” to the flight, according to a NORAD official.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile Saturday was similar in intensity to the fifth most powerful quake recorded since 1900.
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