Hurricane Rick weakened to a Category 3 storm early Monday as it churned toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, forecasters said.
Chile on Wednesday reopened a national park scorched by a major wildfire that broke out last week, the country’s president said.
Teams searched early Wednesday for nine workers still trapped in a mine in northern Mexico after an explosion, Mexico’s labor secretary said.
An accused teen hit man has been detained in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
Violence in the United States is not related to illegal Mexican immigrants, but violence in Mexico is connected to vast shipments of weapons from the United States, Mexico’s foreign minister told CNN Thursday.
High ranking officials in North Korea on Wednesday paid their respects during the state funeral of the country’s second-highest ranking military officer, Jo Myong Rok, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Officials working to free 33 trapped miners in northern Chile denied Thursday they are under political orders to rescue the men ahead of President Sebastian Pinera’s planned mid-month trip to Europe.
As Sunday night fell on Chile, heavily populated parts of the country were without water and electricity, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.
A weakened Tropical Storm Tomas could re-intensify into a rare November hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Colombian politician Marcos Baquero was released by the FARC Colombian rebel group after one year and seven months of captivity, according to CNN affiliate Caracol TV.
Snubbing the United States, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned home from exile Friday, just ahead of a critical runoff election.
Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.
Authorities have found what appears to be a severed human foot this week, the 11th found in waterways in British Columbia in the past four years.
In the first four months of this year, more than 20,000 illegal migrants boarded the “train of death” at the railhead in Arriaga, southern Mexico, according to diplomats in the region. They all had one aim: “El Norte”, the United States.
Authorities in Ecuador have banned alcohol sales in an emergency measure to stop contaminated drinks from reaching consumers after at least 21 people died.
Ophelia is now a hurricane as it continues to gain strength in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday afternoon.
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