A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
On the day of the funeral of a prominent social activist in Chihuahua, Mexico, a business she had ties with was burned down by a group of armed men, according to witnesses.
The United Nations planned to issue an apology Tuesday for peacekeeping troops breaching a Port-au-Prince university during an anti-government protest that turned violent.
They delay televised football matches in Brazil and have even brought forward prayer meetings where they are watched abroad.
The United Nations criticized the international response to the Haiti cholera outbreak as inadequate on Saturday, saying donors had pledged only about ten percent of the money needed to curb the disease.
Nearly a month after false rumors on Twitter about school attacks caused car crashes when parents panicked on the streets of Veracruz, Mexico, state lawmakers there approved new regulations Tuesday making disturbing the peace a crime.
Officials in Petionville, Haiti, on Saturday prepared to move the first people out of a ballooning tent city — one of many erected in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake that devastated the country in January — and into a displacement camp as the rainy season gets under way.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro initially rejected a colostomy procedure when he fell ill in 2006, putting his own life at risk, according to an unnamed medical source quoted by U.S. diplomats in cables released by WikiLeaks.
All 33 of the rescued miners in Chile may be released from the hospital over the weekend, with three awaiting release on Thursday, a hospital official said.
Ariel Sigler is the latest of 21 Cuban political prisoners to fly into exile after being freed from jail in Cuba.
A gubernatorial candidate in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was killed by gunfire Monday morning near Ciudad Victoria, a top government official reported.
At least 28 people were killed and 52 injured after an oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico, the country’s state-owned oil monopoly said.
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Thursday, January 21
Cuban President Raul Castro has replaced two high-level government ministers — citing errors and incompetence — in the latest round of replacements at top-level government posts.
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