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Communities in northeastern Mexico found themselves flooded and isolated Tuesday as Mexico’s National Water Commission tried to manage high levels at area reservoirs due to Hurricane Alex.
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.
I had been standing on the street with Jaime Lerner for less than one minute when a stranger stopped to greet him.
The first thing you notice about Jessica Ochoa is her huge brown eyes.
Ecuador is the latest country to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
President Hugo Chavez’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela won the most seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but lost the supermajority that has allowed for quick passage of many of Chavez’s programs and controversial measures.
Three days after police officers protesting a new law physically attacked Ecuador’s president and allegedly held him at a hospital for hours, the country’s interior minister says the government remains convinced that the uprising was an attempted coup.
A 13-year-old boy has been detained in Argentina in connection with a beating death Tuesday during the national Day of Spring celebrations, the official state-run news agency said Thursday.
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 have begun to assume different roles to help them survive what could be a months-long effort to bring them to the surface from 2,300 feet below ground, rescue officials said Thursday.
Candidates wound up a flurry of election campaigning before a midnight deadline Friday night amid reports of a violent attack on one of the candidates’ campaigns.
Police in Rio de Janeiro are searching for a high-profile soccer player accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of a pregnant woman believed to have been a former lover, officials said Wednesday.
The mother of a Cuban political prisoner who died after a prolonged hunger strike a year ago has been detained ahead of the first anniversary of his death, according to family.
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.
I’ve seen very few dead people in my life. I saw my grandparents and a few friends who passed away, but all of them looked peaceful resting in their coffins. But I had never seen murdered people until recently: lying on the sidewalk, face-down in puddles of their own blood.
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