The world marks International Women’s Day on Monday, an annual celebration that highlights their economic, political and social achievements.
Tropical Storm Alex is expected to strengthen into a hurricane but is heading away from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Carlos Vielmann, a former Guatemalan interior minister wanted on charges of extrajudicial killings, turned himself in to authorities in Spain Thursday morning, his attorney told CNN.
What was Hurricane Karl weakened Friday to a tropical storm after making landfall, but the heavy rain it spawned could still cause mudslides and flash floods in the Mexican interior, forecasters said.
Much of Chile was in the dark Sunday after a blackout knocked out power to 90 percent of the country, CNN’s sister network in the country reported.
Hope dawned with the new day Wednesday as a red, white and blue capsule lifted miners from the dark bowels of the earth into the light.
Tubes packed with flashlights, water and oxygen were being sent Monday morning to 33 Chilean miners trapped for nearly three weeks in an underground shelter, said national Mining Minister Laurence Golborne.
The United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti condemned Tuesday violent anti-U.N. clashes that broke out the previous day in two northern Haitian cities, charging that the riots may be politically motivated.
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is injecting his cachet as a newly minted Nobel Prize winner into the political sphere, in a strong criticism of the political aspirations of the daughter of a disgraced former president.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to make his third visit in a little over a month Tuesday to the troubled border city of Juarez, where three people associated with the U.S. Consulate were killed over the weekend.
One person was killed and four police officers were wounded Saturday when police in Brazil traded fire with gunmen who fled into a luxury hotel and took people hostage, police said.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha is growing, with 123 reported killed in Guatemala, 17 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
Twenty-two Colombian guerrillas were killed Sunday in an airstrike, the country’s defense minister said.
Faced with international criticism over hunger-striking dissidents, President Raul Castro on Sunday said Cuba refused to give in to blackmail and accused the United States and Europe of launching “the most ferocious” media campaign against the island nation in decades.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
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