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Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will be granted safe passage to the Dominican Republic as a guest, resolving a diplomatic impasse that kept him trapped in Honduras, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez told CNN Wednesday.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of calamity in 28 of the nation’s 32 states Thursday due to heavy rains and flooding that have affected 1.2 million people.
Violence in and around the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday and Saturday left 23 people dead, including two police officers ambushed while on routine patrol, authorities said.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.
The mother of a Cuban political prisoner who died after a prolonged hunger strike a year ago has been detained ahead of the first anniversary of his death, according to family.
A subtropical depression formed Wednesday in the western Atlantic Ocean, but was not expected to pose a threat to land, forecasters said.
Panama and the United Arab Emirates are crucial trade hubs thanks to two of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century — Dubai’s Jebel Ali port and the Panama Canal.
Emilio Massera, a former admiral who was part of a military junta that ruled Argentina in the 1970s, died Monday in the hospital were he had been for some time, the state-run Telam news agency reported.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital.
The Brazilian government “remains highly sensitive to public claims suggesting that terrorist or extremist organizations have a presence” or are active in the country, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
At least 35 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a wreck in Ecuador, the Red Cross said Friday.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile Saturday was similar in intensity to the fifth most powerful quake recorded since 1900.
Each week, Global Connections takes two countries and asks you to find connections between them. In our first week, we chose Brazil and Nigeria.
A nation of desperate and grieving people showed the fervency of their faith Saturday in this earthquake-ravaged capital.
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