A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Saadi Gadhafi, a son of the deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, tried to travel secretly to Mexico with false documents, Mexico’s interior minister said Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Tomas formed in the Atlantic Friday and could strengthen into a hurricane by late Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Officials in Guatemala have found 27 bodies, the majority of which were decapitated, at a farm in the northern region of Peten, Col. Rony Urizar, an army spokesman, said Sunday.
Rina weakened to a tropical storm as it neared some of Mexico’s most popular beaches Thursday.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile early Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Another of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s Cabinet members is under scrutiny for alleged corruption following an exposé in the magazine Veja.
Police in Bolivia used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who took to the streets protesting a hike on the price of fuels Monday.
Two major droughts in Brazil’s Amazon region in the last six years threaten to undermine its role as the planet’s most important carbon sink and a vital brake on climate change, according to new research.
Brazil’s Supreme Tribunal has affirmed a decision by the country’s former president to reject the extradition of Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti. The court ruled that Battisti should be freed from Brazilian prison immediately.
The Panama Canal reopened Thursday after heavy rains and flooding prompted its closing for only the third time in its storied 96-year history.
A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.
Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
For almost half a century the chewing of coca leaves, a practice dating back thousands of years, has been banned internationally. Now, Bolivia is urging countries to back a campaign to have coca removed from a United Nations list of banned drugs.
Gunshots rang out and the smell of tear gas filled the air in a crowded tent city outside Haiti’s destroyed presidential palace Monday night in one of the most serious confrontations since an earthquake decimated the city.
Tropical Storm Hermine is expected to cross into Texas on Tuesday after striking the Mexican coast about 40 miles south of the U.S. border Monday night, the National Hurricane Center reported.
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