Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who is serving time in prison for crimes committed during his rule, was taken to a hospital, Panamanian police said Sunday.
U.S. and Mexican authorities were scouring the seas Monday for at least five people — and possibly as many as eight — missing more than a day after a tourist boat carrying more than 40 people capsized off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
The director of a battered women’s shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was being held Wednesday on charges that she trafficked and prostituted the women she cared for and allegedly forced them to commit sex acts with strangers, local authorities told CNN.
Two Canadian fighter jets on Saturday escorted a Cathay Pacific Airways flight into Vancouver International Airport in response to a “potential threat” to the flight, according to a NORAD official.
An American who set up a school for homeless street boys in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, could face nearly 20 years in prison after he admitted sexually abusing some of the same children he sheltered, clothed and educated.
Ten Americans held in Haiti on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of the country could have their first court hearing Monday afternoon, a preacher associated with the missionaries told CNN.
Less than a year after his predecessor was removed from power in a military-led coup, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo says he has found out that some political opponents want to overthrow him, a statement from the president’s office reported.
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Hurricane Dora weakened to Category 1 strength as it continued to churn in the Pacific Ocean off the northwest coast of Mexico on Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.
At least 13 people, including children and adults, were killed Thursday in a school shooting in Rio de Janeiro, CNN affiliate Record TV reported, citing civil police.
The Organization of American States voted Wednesday to readmit Honduras into the regional body.
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.
In the central plaza, there was once an orgy of music, street dancing and revelry unmatched by any other nation in the Americas, Haitians say.
Eduardo Ravani Jr. was photographing a wedding reception early Saturday at Las Terrazas dela Reina on the hills overlooking Santiago, Chile, when the party disc jockey told him: “Hey, I think the building is moving.”
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