Rights activist: Cuba starts relocating jailed dissidents
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Cuba has begun moving some of its jailed dissidents to prisons that are closer to their homes, according to Elizardo Sanchez, head of Cuba’s independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
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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.
The family of a former Mexican presidential candidate and senator asked authorities Friday to stand back from the case to allow negotiations for his release.
Seven people, mostly tourists, were killed Thursday when a small plane crashed in southern Peru near the famous Nazca Lines, the official Andina news agency reported, citing Nazca police.
A fourth earthquake in 24 hours rattled coastal Chile early Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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.
More than two-thirds of the passengers survived an airplane crash Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his months-long hunger strike Thursday after the nation’s Roman Catholic Church announced that 52 political prisoners will be released soon, his doctor and other dissidents told CNN.
The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the government said.
Two fugitive brothers wanted in the much-publicized slaying of a Guatemalan lawyer last year were being held at a military base Tuesday, one day after they surrendered to authorities with a special United Nations commission, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said.
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In the best of times, the Champs de Mars square in downtown Port-au-Prince was an awe-inspiring sight for Haitians. The broad boulevard was home to the majestic presidential palace, the seat of the country’s power and prestige.
Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has arrived at the Lima police headquarters in Peru, where he is facing charges that he killed a Peruvian woman.
One of the key aspects to gaining control of the fast-moving cholera outbreak in Haiti is the simplest of human necessities, actor and activist Sean Penn told CNN’s “AC 360.”
The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state rose to 591 people Saturday, Brazil’s official news agency reported.
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