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State media: Cuban hunger striker ‘in danger of dying’

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Cuban opposition activist and longtime hunger striker Guillermo Farinas is “in danger of dying,” state media reported Saturday.

Gunmen opened fire at two different bars in northern Mexico, killing nine people and injuring 12, Mexico’s state news agency reported Sunday, citing the attorney general’s office.

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.

Has Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, been lost to the drug cartels?

Mexican federal police have arrested a man who authorities say could have been involved in the March shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the country’s public safety ministry said.

The family of a Peruvian woman slain in Lima last month said it hopes the eventual trial of Joran Van der Sloot can ease its pain and that of another family thousands of miles away.

Dozens of garbage pickers pounce on the black and white trash bags as they tumble out of the latest truck to dump its load at the summit of the Gramacho landfill.

Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.

An international scientific panel will investigate the cause of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Friday.

A young woman was found decapitated in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Tuesday, local officials told CNN.

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.

The United Kingdom is turning its sights to Latin America, a region that it has neglected, Foreign Minister William Hague said.

Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take children out of Haiti met with people they thought were Haitian and Dominican authorities the week before being stopped at the border, said interpreters who worked with the group.

Ten children, youths and young adults between the ages of 8 and 21 were gunned down, presumably by drug traffickers, in the northern Mexican state of Durango, the state’s attorney general said Monday.

Growing up, Jean-Michel Beauchamp attended no ball games with his grandfather. No barbecues, either, or bedtime stories.

Uruguayan officials say they will fully investigate a prison fire early Thursday that killed 12 people and sent eight to the hospital, three of them in critical condition.


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