Costa Rica’s first female candidate held a two-to-one lead in the country’s presidential election, as the second-place candidate, Otton Solis of the Citizen’s Action Party, conceded defeat.
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.
The creation of new power capacity from renewable energy has exceeded new fossil fuel power generation in the United States and Europe for the second year running, according to two United Nations reports published Thursday.
A helicopter rescued 18 people from a city in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state after rains caused devastating flooding and mudslides in the mountainous region, the country’s Air Force said.
Tropical Storm Colin lost some strength overnight, with its maximum sustained winds reaching only 45 mph throughout the morning, the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. Friday update.
Costa Rica will take its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court Tuesday.
Cuba commemorated the 57th anniversary Monday of the attack that started Fidel Castro’s revolution, but President Raul Castro did not speak, unlike in the previous three years.
Teams of rescuers in Haiti’s capital rushed to the city’s Caribbean Market on Tuesday after a machine used to clear rubble caused a secondary collapse, trapping at least one Haitian in the rubble.
A broad array of international donors pledged nearly $10 billion in long-term assistance to Haiti’s earthquake recovery efforts during a daylong conference at United Nations headquarters.
Mexican authorities have had significant successes against drug traffickers, President Felipe Calderon said in his fourth annual state-of-the-nation speech Thursday, noting that three major kingpins have been captured or killed in the past year.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging countries in the Gulf region to support Iraq’s newly created government as she prepares to head to an international forum on development and the environment.
Violence including clashes between police and drug gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro has killed 23 people since Sunday, with 188 people arrested or detained so far, military police said Thursday.
At a nesting area for green sea turtles on a beach in western Cuba, scientists dig for baby sea turtles.
A bus crashed into the side of a mountain Tuesday in western Bolivia, killing at least 13 people and injuring another 26, the government news agency reported.
After a final day together, in the relative comfort of the regional hospital here, three of the 33 miners who lived trapped together for more than two months were discharged Thursday night, CNN Chile reported.
Haitian officials declared the country’s national elections a success — just hours after two-thirds of the candidates in the presidential race called for an annulment of the vote due to irregularities.
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