At least 16 people died and another 22 were injured Wednesday in a fire at a juvenile detention center in El Salvador, said Mauricio Ramirez Landaverde, the interim chief for the national civil police force.
A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez’s face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-age man who has seen suffering and miracles at once.
Venezuela’s lame-duck National Assembly has granted President Hugo Chavez the power to pass laws by decree for the next 18 months, the website of state-run Venezuelan Television reported Friday.
Joel Rathon had two missions Friday: bury his wife and save his son.
A compressor exploded Tuesday morning inside a government-owned oil refinery in northeastern Mexico, forcing the evacuation of the facility’s workers, state-own oil company Pemex said.
Two trains collided head on Tuesday morning in northwestern Mexico, leaving at least 10 dead and five injured, state news agency Notimex reported.
A weapon that was used in the fatal attack on a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico originated in the United States, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Tomas was slowly re-intensifying early Tuesday, and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen further over the next couple of days.
Four Americans were killed in a small plane crash in northwestern Mexico, the president of the volunteer organization Flying Samaritans said Saturday.
Bermuda, which hasn’t seen a major hurricane in some seven years, is about to get walloped by Igor, which forecasters termed large and dangerous Saturday night.
Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
A bus crashed into the side of a mountain Tuesday in western Bolivia, killing at least 13 people and injuring another 26, the government news agency reported.
Six jailed Cuban dissidents will be moved to prisons closer to their homes in “the coming hours,” the island’s Roman Catholic Church said Thursday.
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.
President Hugo Chavez’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela won a majority of seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, the National Electoral Council said early Monday.
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