A third suspect has been arrested in the massacre of 15 people at a house party last month in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican official said Saturday.
A Venezuelan journalist who has been held for two years without a trial reported that he has gone on a hunger strike, saying he wants the judge in his case to recuse himself.
In response to severe flooding in northeastern Brazil that has left 46 people dead, the government on Thursday announced the release of 500 million reais (U.S. $277 million) to help victims, national civil defense officials said.
The mayor of a small town in western Mexico and his personal secretary were found dead Monday in the official’s truck, the government-run news service said.
Nearly a third of the patients at a makeshift hospital in earthquake-ravaged Haiti will die without immediate surgery, a doctor warned Saturday.
Heavy rains and flooding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and surrounding areas Tuesday killed 93 people and injured at least 93, fire officials said.
Thirty one countries have abolished the death penalty but China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Yemen remain amongst the most frequent executioners, according to a new report from Amnesty International released Monday.
Chilean business executive Roberto Baudrand was found dead in his Havana apartment on Tuesday, the Cuban government announced in a statement Friday.
Several hundred people have died in heavy rains and flooding in Brazil, civil defense officials said Thursday.
The peace process in the Middle East may be stalled, but the balance between Israel and the Palestinians continues to shift in other ways. In the last month, four Latin American countries have added their names to the list of nations officially recognizing a Palestinian state, and more are on the horizon.
Five presumed drug gang members and one soldier were killed in shootouts Thursday and Friday after criminals blocked thoroughfares in two northern Mexico states to prevent military reinforcements from arriving, authorities said.
After dealing a walloping blow to Haiti, where at least six people died and a number of homes were destroyed, Tropical Storm Tomas weakened rapidly Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Chileans gathered in a candlelight vigil early Sunday morning to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that killed 521 people and left thousands homeless in the South American nation.
Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday.
Stung by criticism that aid hasn’t been getting into earthquake-ravaged Haiti quickly enough, U.S. officials say they are taking steps to rectify the problem and the perception.
A bus traveling south of Ecuador’s capital lost control Sunday, killing 42 people and injuring 11 others, officials said.
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