The world marks International Women’s Day on Monday, an annual celebration that highlights their economic, political and social achievements.
Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said all emergency measures should be in place by Tuesday, three days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake destroyed large swaths of the central and southern parts of the nation.
Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has arrived at the Lima police headquarters in Peru, where he is facing charges that he killed a Peruvian woman.
More aftershocks rocked parts of Chile early Thursday, five days after a massive earthquake that killed more than 800 people.
There’s a post-9/11 atmosphere in Kingston, Jamaica, local residents say, after a failed police assault on the stronghold of a suspected drug kingpin wanted by the United States.
Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.
Residents of a center-city neighborhood in Guatemala City, Guatemala, are still in shock after a massive sinkhole opened last weekend, gobbling several buildings and nearly an entire intersection, according to local officials.
Chilean business executive Roberto Baudrand was found dead in his Havana apartment on Tuesday, the Cuban government announced in a statement Friday.
The world marks International Women’s Day on Monday, an annual celebration that highlights their economic, political and social achievements.
Gas accumulation triggered by intense heat caused a garbage dump explosion Tuesday in central Mexico, damaging about 100 homes but leading to no known fatalities, the state-run news agency reported.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
Tuesday, January 19
Bolivia plans to take back the nation’s railroad system in 2010, 14 years after selling its trains and tracks to the private sector, a government official says.
At least three people were killed and 17 injured when an avalanche struck a snowmobile competition in western Canada, authorities said.
Heavy rains and flooding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and surrounding areas Tuesday killed 95 people and injured at least 93, fire officials said.
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