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Colombians went to the polls Sunday in a tight presidential race that many didn’t expect would be so close just a few months ago.
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A prison riot in northern Mexico left two inmates dead and 10 wounded, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging countries in the Gulf region to support Iraq’s newly created government as she prepares to head to an international forum on development and the environment.
Mexican police arrested five heavily armed men and one woman near Cancun as the nation marked its bicentennial year.
The value of shares in a British company drilling for oil off the Falkand islands halved Monday, after it revealed the existing supply may not be commercially viable.
Mexico’s arrest of drug cartel suspects has become fairly commonplace. On Thursday, it was six suspected members of La Familia, based in Michoacan. A day earlier, it was a man identified as a top leader of the ruthless Zetas.
Six months after an earthquake devastated Haiti, a United Nations representative on the ground there says many challenges still lie ahead in the aftermath of the “worst living disaster.”
A “major gunbattle” between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.
Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
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Manuel Gonzalez was eager to get the rescue operation under way as he descended the shaft to the darkness where 33 miners had been trapped since August 5.
The two remaining miners trapped underground in Ecuador since part of a mine collapsed last week have been found dead, the mine’s president said Wednesday.
The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said.
He comes from one of the most seductive cities on earth and makes art that demands to be touched, yet Ernesto Neto wishes the world was less sexy.
Mexican federal police interrupted a weekend massacre-in-the-making in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, motel and captured two hit men working for a major cartel in the city, a spokesman for the federal police told CNN Monday.
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