U.S. postpones meeting with Cuban dissident families
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A meeting that U.S. diplomats had requested with relatives of some Cuban political prisoners has been put on hold, dissidents said Monday.
The U.N.’s human rights chief urged Mexican officials Friday to intensify their investigation into the disappearance of dozens of Central American migrants who were abducted while travelling north on a freight train.
A Cuban court Tuesday commuted the sentence of the nation’s only prisoner facing the death penalty, and instead sentenced him to 30 years in prison, according to the official Cubadebate website.
Haitian police shot and killed a man they suspected of stealing rice in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince on Thursday, leaving his body on the sidewalk for hours as his family mourned.
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Jose Reyes Ferriz, the mayor of violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, said the drug cartel war gripping his city is rooted in social decomposition such as broken homes.
The Chinese government could embrace Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo with pride and respect “with a little twist of the mind,” actor and activist Richard Gere told a small group of activists at a New York rally in honor of Liu, who has been imprisoned by Beijing.
A subtropical depression formed Wednesday in the western Atlantic Ocean, but was not expected to pose a threat to land, forecasters said.
Tropical storm conditions spread over Bermuda Sunday morning as Hurricane Igor remains on track to pummel the island later in the day.
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations brought his country’s complaints about neighbor Colombia to the U.N. secretary-general Monday in the form of a letter explaining his government’s decisions.
At least 14 people were killed in 48 hours in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, including the Tuesday deaths of a municipal police officer and a newspaper vendor who police believe was targeted because of her job.
Cuban President Raul Castro has replaced two high-level government ministers — citing errors and incompetence — in the latest round of replacements at top-level government posts.
Paraguay’s president is expected to meet with human rights groups Sunday to clarify the effects of a law that temporarily suspends constitutional rights in the north of the country.
Hurricane Karl made landfall in Mexico Friday while Igor, its partner in power, moved toward Bermuda, which is bracing for the worst when it strikes late Sunday.
Officials in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas have found two bodies that may be those of two men investigating the massacre of 72 migrants in the state.
The cake has been cut. The guests have all gone home. And now, even the honeymoon may be over.
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