The State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere because of heightened security risks related to drug violence.
Argentina became the first Latin American country on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage.
At least 18 prisoners were killed during a long prison riot and a second, shorter riot in northeast Brazil, officials said Tuesday.
A military jury at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday recommended a 14-year prison term for Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese man who served as cook and driver for Osama bin Laden.
She is coming to power holding the hand of a powerful man. Replacing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1 is 63-year-old Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to govern this South American country of more than 200 million people.
So many doctors are answering Haiti’s call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem: organizing and finding good use for them all.
Each week, Global Connections takes two countries and asks you to find connections between them. In our first week, we chose Brazil and Nigeria.
Cuban authorities have released political activist Darsi Ferrer from prison after court officials waited almost a year to bring him to trial.
We’re definitely on the home straight, but things aren’t easy due mainly to lack of sleep and the miles that we still have to walk by our self-imposed deadline of Monday 9th.
The former Haitian president forced to flee office during the violent uprising of 2004 has announced that he is ready to return home to help rebuild his earthquake-shattered country.
Jose Vega may be 70 years old but, he’s fit and wiry. He’s uncomfortable sitting still and is constantly on the move.
At least 83 people were killed and several more were injured in a fire that broke out after a riot at a prison in Chile, the country’s president, Sebastian Pinera, told CNN Chile on Wednesday.
Mexico’s leading opposition party captured most of the 12 governorships at stake in Sunday’s elections, but that doesn’t mean the party is assured of victory in the 2012 presidential election, analysts said Tuesday.
Mexico’s interior secretary is expressing concern over a mob action in Mexico City that left dozens of police officers injured.
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