Santos declares victory in Colombian presidential runoff
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Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos declared victory Sunday in Colombia’s presidential runoff, winning more than 69 percent of the votes with nearly all votes counted.
The Army may have known months ago about serious misconduct — including the apparently unprovoked murder of a civilian — by members of a platoon in Afghanistan but failed to act on it before at least one other murder occurred.
A quickly intensifying Hurricane Igor is poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm — the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s government staged rival demonstrations Sunday in the streets of the capital to mark the anniversary of a popular revolt that overthrew a dictatorship in the South American country in 1958.
Military choppers are on standby to swoop into the heliport. Motorcycle police are on alert to escort a fleet of ambulances. And a throng of electric beds with crisp white sheets stand vacant and ready.
After soaking Bermuda, Hurricane Igor was set to brush by the tip of Newfoundland, Canada, on Tuesday, packing torrential rains and high winds, forecasters aid.
The painstaking process of hoisting 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile below ground for more than two months in northern Chile was completed Wednesday night, less than a day after it began, ending a saga that gripped a nation that never gave up hope.
A police investigation continued Thursday into a Catholic abuse scandal in Brazil, which erupted last week when a network aired a video that it said showed a priest having sex with a 19-year-old altar boy.
Daisy Cuevas suddenly became an international celebrity after touching on a hot topic during Michelle Obama’s visit to her school last week.
Still reeling from the January earthquake, Haiti is now in the grip of a deadly cholera outbreak. Aid organizations, already struggling to provide the most basic necessities, now face the possibility of a catastrophic epidemic.
A former Bolivian dictator has been arrested on a charge that he exposed himself to a group of children and has been sent to a drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency reported.
French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake devastated much of the country.
One person was taken to a hospital after part of a parking deck collapsed Thursday in Windsor, Ontario, police officials told CNN.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has promised Haitians he is focused on maintaining donor solidarity as the quake-torn nation struggles to rebuild, the organization said.
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.
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