Raymond Thomas is a jolly man who laughs easily and likes to say “Forget it” a lot.
The parents of a Pakistani man charged in Chile with illegally possessing explosives say his case is the result of a misunderstanding.
Cuba is set to further empty its jails, adding at least another nine inmates to a list of those it plans to free, a human rights leader said Monday.
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims’ suffering.
Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean is not on the list of candidates approved by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council to run in this year’s presidential election.
Federal aid is flowing to rain-ravaged areas of northeastern Brazil and the number of missing has diminished to less than 140, but more than 150,000 people remained homeless or displaced Friday, the government said.
Jamaica’s prime minister Wednesday rejected allegations that he was “a known criminal affiliate” of a suspected drug lord, calling them “libellous,” “scurrilous” and “malicious.”
At least 35 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a wreck in Ecuador, the Red Cross said Friday.
In an effort to ramp up pressure for Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon, an indigenous rights organization has released what it says are photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that is threatened by the logging across the border.
It was the type of move that only a head of state could get away with.
Far from the happy, melodic sway of the “Girl from Ipanema” stereotype, life is no beach for women in Brazil.
The United Nations Security Council has approved a proposal to send an additional 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers to quake-ravaged Haiti, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
A high-level Venezuelan official wanted by Spain in connection with links to a Basque terrorist group was due to testify Wednesday in a Venezuelan court looking into his extradition, the South American nation’s top prosecutor said.
An Organization of American States human rights commission has asked a court to look into the 1994 disappearance of a Dominican Republic opposition leader shortly after he was taken into custody, the agency said Monday.
Tuesday, January 19
The death toll has risen to at least 1,344 in the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has sickened nearly 57,000 people, the Haitian government said Monday.
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