Town mayor killed in his office in central Mexico
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A town mayor was gunned down and killed in his office Wednesday afternoon in central Mexico, state and federal officials said.
A cholera outbreak in Haiti continues to spread to previously unaffected areas in rural communities, killing 442 people and hospitalizing 6,742 others, the Pan American Health Organization said Wednesday.
Mexican federal authorities have arrested three suspects accused of kidnapping three journalists last week, officials announced 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.
The Canadian coast guard began ferrying passengers on Sunday from a cruise ship that ran aground on an unmapped rock.
Tropical Depression Alex was expected to continue drenching states across Mexico even as it dissipated early Friday morning, forecasters said.
Police said they were preparing for more disruptions Sunday after groups of protesters burned cars, hurled bricks and smashed windows as they tried to penetrate the fence surrounding the G-20 summit.
Costa Rica and Nicaragua both must refrain from sending or maintaining civilians, security forces or police in a disputed border area, the International Court of Justice ordered Tuesday.
Lava and ash from Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano forced the closure of Guayaquil Airport until Saturday afternoon, an airport spokesman said Friday.
The Panama Canal reopened Thursday after heavy rains and flooding prompted its closing for only the third time in its storied 96-year history.
Police in Jamaica have more than 500 people in custody, the government said Wednesday, after a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin resulted in violence that left dozens of people dead.
A mistrial has been declared in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from actor John Travolta.
Two armed attackers burst into a kindergarten and set fire to the school building in the violence-plagued border city of Juarez, state media reported.
A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged apartments near a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country’s state-run Notimex agency reported.
As talks at the United Nations climate summit enter their final hours, hopes of progress on key issues including the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program appear to be fading.
A British navy ship abandoned and lost in Canadian Arctic waters since the mid-19th century has been found in relatively good shape at the bottom of a bay, the Canadian government says.
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