Some freed Cuban dissidents can apply for immigration, U.S. says
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Freed Cuban political prisoners and their families are invited to “explore their options” for possible immigration to the United States, a U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday.
Calling Haiti’s cholera outbreak “an extremely serious situation,” a United Nations official expressed concern Monday that the infectious disease that has already killed more than 250 people could spread and grow to “tens of thousands of cases.”
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit Puerto Rico on Friday, rattling residents but causing no immediate reports of damage.
Three Americans died in weekend violence in the area of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official said.
The death toll from the eruption of a volcano in Guatemala has risen to at least three people, an official said Friday.
In the wake of his decision to devalue Venezuela’s currency, President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he would put the military on the streets to ensure that business owners don’t raise prices.
Far from the happy, melodic sway of the “Girl from Ipanema” stereotype, life is no beach for women in Brazil.
Tropical Depression Karl continued dissipating across southern Mexico on Saturday, but threats of flash floods and mudslides remain, forecasters said.
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations brought his country’s complaints about neighbor Colombia to the U.N. secretary-general Monday in the form of a letter explaining his government’s decisions.
A defiant Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa returned safely to the presidential palace late Thursday after spending hours held by police inside a hospital room outside Quito.
A new drill in Chile that could speed the rescue of trapped miners arrived at the rescue scene on Friday with great jubilation from families of the workers.
Faced with international criticism over hunger-striking dissidents, President Raul Castro on Sunday said Cuba refused to give in to blackmail and accused the United States and Europe of launching “the most ferocious” media campaign against the island nation in decades.
It was like a tsunami from the sky in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state as flood water gushed through hill towns and giant boulders catapulted from hillsides instantly crushing cars and houses.
The thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than two weeks in a Chilean mine are alive and in a shelter, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday.
A judge in Haiti said he expects to make a decision soon on the possible release of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the earthquake in January.
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