An angry mob took 30 police officers hostage in Guatemala and threatened to kill them unless authorities release a farm leader who was detained last week, a police official said Friday.
Rescue teams on Friday found the wreckage of a plane that crashed Thursday night in the mountains of Venezuela, but none of the 46 people aboard survived, a searcher said.
The World Health Organization plans to send 2 million vaccines to Paraguay by Sunday after yellow fever emerged there for the first time in 34 years.
A plane that was reported missing with 46 people aboard Thursday night has crashed in the Andes Mountains, authorities said.
A ferryboat carrying more than 100 passengers collided with a barge loaded with fuel tanks and sank to the bottom of the Amazon River on Thursday, officials said.
At least 10 people have died and thousands have been left homeless after torrential rains inundated large parts of Ecuador, officials said Thursday.
Canada's Conservative government says the country's troops will leave southern Afghanistan in 2011.
Teachers walked off the job across Puerto Rico on Thursday, staging protests that led to several arrests and scattered clashes with police assigned to keep schools open.
Raúl Castro has lived all his life in the shadow of his older brother Fidel.
This is the text of a letter from Cuban leader Fidel Castro published Tuesday by the Cuban state-run newspaper Granma.
An angry mob took 30 police officers hostage in Guatemala and threatened to kill them unless authorities release a farm leader who was detained last week, a police official said Friday.
Rescue teams on Friday found the wreckage of a plane that crashed Thursday night in the mountains of Venezuela, but none of the 46 people aboard survived, a searcher said.
The World Health Organization plans to send 2 million vaccines to Paraguay by Sunday after yellow fever emerged there for the first time in 34 years.
A plane that was reported missing with 46 people aboard Thursday night has crashed in the Andes Mountains, authorities said.
A ferryboat carrying more than 100 passengers collided with a barge loaded with fuel tanks and sank to the bottom of the Amazon River on Thursday, officials said.
At least 10 people have died and thousands have been left homeless after torrential rains inundated large parts of Ecuador, officials said Thursday.
Canada's Conservative government says the country's troops will leave southern Afghanistan in 2011.
Teachers walked off the job across Puerto Rico on Thursday, staging protests that led to several arrests and scattered clashes with police assigned to keep schools open.
Raúl Castro has lived all his life in the shadow of his older brother Fidel.
This is the text of a letter from Cuban leader Fidel Castro published Tuesday by the Cuban state-run newspaper Granma.
While Fidel Castro historically mesmerized his countrymen with dramatic, extemporaneous speeches stretching over hours, brother Raul is known for his businesslike, even boring delivery, rarely bothering to look up from prepared texts.
Although the news that one of the longest-serving leaders in the world was officially stepping down sent ripples around the globe, Fidel Castro's resignation announcement barely registered in Cuba.
Before disappearing from public life in 2006 and officially stepping down as Cuba's president Tuesday, Fidel Castro ruled the country with an iron fist, despite numerous attempts by his enemies to do away with him.
On Tuesday, February 19, after almost 50 years of rule, Fidel Castro announced that he will step down as Cuba's president and commander in chief. Known for leading the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, embracing communism and carrying on tense relations with the United States, which led to a strict embargo, Castro is a highly contentious figure.
A former Argentine interior minister under military rule was detained Tuesday for questioning in connection with a criminal investigation of two dictatorship-era abductions, the state news agency said.
Fidel Castro's resignation does not mean the longtime ruler is bowing out of Cuba's political life, analysts say.
Relatives of 65 Mexican miners killed in an explosion two years commemorated the second anniversary of their deaths Tuesday with renewed demands that authorities recover the workers' remains.
A cashiered army lieutenant colonel and 14 soldiers were convicted Monday of murdering 10 elite counternarcotics police agents in an ambush that showed how deeply drug corruption threatens Colombia's security forces.
A Trinidadian judge on Monday upheld the extradition of three men charged with plotting to attack New York's John F. Kennedy airport, denying their latest effort to resist being sent to the United States to face trial.
German Chupina, a former Guatemalan police director wanted in Spain for crimes against humanity, died Sunday of health problems related to old age, family members said. He was 86.
The weddings of more than 200 couples from Canada and Britain who exchanged vows in the Dominican Republic were never officially recorded.
A homemade bomb that killed one person and wounded two near Mexico City's police headquarters was likely the work of organized crime and not leftist rebels, police said.
An appeals court in Aruba has ruled that a Dutch college student should not be rearrested in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday confirmed the freezing of $300 million (€205.7 million) in cash held by Venezuela's state-run oil company, finding it probable that Exxon Mobil will win its legal battle against the company.
Buses that carry women only are experiencing a smooth ride with passengers in Mexico's capital.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon acknowledged tensions between the U.S. and Mexico over illegal immigration but said Wednesday both countries have an interest in ensuring their citizens can cross the border legally and safely.
Venezuela's state oil company said Tuesday that it has stopped selling crude to Exxon Mobil Corp. in response to the U.S. oil company's drive to use the courts to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
A Cuban student who appeared in a video last week grilling a top Cuban official is denying reports that he was arrested afterward, and maintains that his questions were aimed only at bettering socialism.
President Evo Morales declared a national disaster Tuesday after weeks of heavy storms resulted in widespread flooding blamed for scores of deaths, particularly in northeastern Bolivia.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook southern Mexico on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Bolivia President Evo Morales declared a U.S. diplomat "undesirable" Monday amid allegations that the United States asked a visiting scholar and Peace Corps volunteers to keep tabs on Cubans and Venezuelans in Bolivia.
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez ousted his ministers of defense, foreign affairs and industry Monday, saying he was seeking a better team for his final two years in office.
Oil prices fell Monday, retreating after spiking to almost $93 a barrel on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's threat to cut off oil sales to the United States in retaliation for legal moves by Exxon Mobil to seize some of his country's assets.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened Sunday to cut off his country's oil shipments to the United States if a court ruling goes forward ordering Venezuelan assets be frozen in a case brought by Exxon Mobil.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic war" if Exxon Mobil wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic war" if Exxon Mobil wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars (euros) in Venezuelan assets.
Aruban authorities questioned Joran van der Sloot in the Netherlands about the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, the Aruban prosecutor's office said Friday.
A moderate earthquake rocked Baja California in Mexico, shutting down factories near the U.S. border and leaving about 400,000 people without power, authorities said Saturday. No major damage or injuries were immediately reported.
Bolivia's foreign minister says the world has an obligation to send aid to flood-ravaged areas of Bolivia, linking a disaster that has killed 49 people to global climate change.
Exxon Mobil has obtained a court order freezing up to $12 billion of Venezuela's state-owned oil company's worldwide assets after the government of President Hugo Chavez forced the company out of two joint ventures last year, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.
In a rare public expression of discontent, a video obtained by CNN shows Cuban students grilling a top official about low wages and why Cubans are barred from tourist hotels and from traveling abroad.
Samba group Beija Flor was declared Brazil's carnival champion for the fifth time in six years, wowing judges with gold-encrusted, winged dancers and green jungle display floats.
Reigning champion Beija Flor closed out Rio de Janeiro's Samba parade Tuesday with gold-encrusted and winged dancers in a pre-dawn pageant honoring the Amazon state of Amapa and its pre-Columbian civilizations.
Millions of Colombians wearing white T-shirts marched in their homeland and abroad Monday, to demand the country's largest rebel group stop kidnapping people and release those it holds.
A strong earthquake with a 6.3 magnitude struck northern Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Brazilian beauties wearing only sequins led carnival parades lasting until dawn Sunday as second-division samba groups used a kaleidoscope of colorful dancers and floats to launch the biggest part of Rio's five-day bash.
Aruba's chief public prosecutor has requested that a suspect in the Natalee Holloway case be arrested for a third time based on new evidence, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Aruban prosecutors said Friday that they are reopening their investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway after seeing secretly taped material from a Dutch journalist.
A charter jet flown by airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano was forced to make an emergency landing Friday in a flooded forest outside the eastern lowland city of Trinidad.
Venezuelan authorities confirm a man slain in the Andean city of Merida is Wilber Varela, one of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords, Venezuela's top counter-drug official said Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers clogged central Mexico City Thursday with their slow-moving tractors, protesting the entry of cheap imported corn from the United States and Canada.
A judge issued an order Thursday prohibiting a Rio de Janeiro samba group from parading during carnival with a float depicting naked bodies of Holocaust victims.
A judge issued an order Thursday prohibiting a Rio samba group from parading during carnival with a float depicting naked bodies of Holocaust victims.
Aruban prosecutors said Thursday that authorities are investigating new evidence in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway provided by a Dutch crime reporter.
Acting President Raúl Castro -- not his older brother Fidel -- was the top vote-getter in Cuban parliamentary elections, according to official results Wednesday.
Heavily armed police cracking down on gangs ahead of Rio de Janeiro's famed carnival celebrations engaged in shootouts in two slums Wednesday, killing at least seven suspects.
Colombia has ratified a global treaty outlawing nuclear test explosions, officials said Wednesday, hailing the move as a significant step toward bringing the accord into force.
Police on Wednesday tried to determine what charges to file against the men who held up to 52 hostages in a botched bank robbery in central Venezuela before being detained.
Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.
Canada will extend its military mission in Afghanistan only if another NATO country puts more soldiers in the dangerous south, the prime minister said Monday, echoing the recommendation of an independent panel to withdraw without additional forces.
Ten people died and more than 100 were injured in Argentine road accidents Monday, police said.
A Canadian aid worker detained in North Korea has been freed, a Canadian diplomat said Monday, after the man reportedly spent three months in captivity accused of trying to start a church.
Colombia's problems with violence -- particularly labor strife -- could get worse unless Congress approves a free-trade deal with the country, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
A suspect in last month's brazen theft of two paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari told detectives the paintings were to be delivered to a Saudi collector, authorities said Friday.
An American man and a Uruguayan woman were sentenced to prison Tuesday night for their roles in deadly bombings at two hotels in Bolivia, the Bolivian news agency reported.
One of the reputed leaders of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was formally charged Wednesday and transferred to the same maximum-security prison from which his boss escaped in a laundry cart seven years ago.
An alleged top cocaine smuggler has been captured, Mexican authorities said Monday.
Paraguay's ruling party nominated a woman as its presidential candidate on Monday, a first for the South American nation.
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to take over farms or milk plants if owners refuse to sell their milk for domestic consumption and instead seek higher profits abroad or from cheese-makers.
A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday designated actor and activist George Clooney a U.N. "Messenger of Peace."
A volcano erupted in southwestern Colombia on Thursday night, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of about 8,000 people.
Four police officers were wounded Thursday in an hours-long police shootout at a suspected safe house for criminals in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, a state official said.
Unknown assailants opened fire at a bar in South America's biggest city Thursday, killing seven people and injuring two, authorities said.
A satchel of letters carried out of the jungle by two women freed by Colombian rebels details the heart-wrenching suffering and deprivation of the hostages still held captive.
Peru filed a demand Wednesday with the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, requesting its assistance to resolve a maritime border dispute with Chile.
Fidel Castro said Wednesday he is not ready physically to speak to Cuba's masses in person and will not campaign for Sunday's parliamentary elections.
Gunmen shot and killed three Tijuana police officers in a night of bloody violence just south of the U.S. border, Mexican officials said Tuesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday that she opposes Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's call for the European Union to strike Colombia's leftist rebels from its list of terrorist groups.
Guatemala's first leftist president in 50 years, Alvaro Colom, took office Monday with a pledge to help the poor.
The same leftist rebel group that released two long-held hostages three days ago has kidnapped six tourists at a remote beach on Colombia's Pacific coast, a spokeswoman for the Colombian navy said Monday.
Leftist rebel gunmen kidnapped six tourists from a Pacific island, Colombia's navy said Monday, adding to the more than 700 hostages it still holds for ransom or political leverage.
Colombia's child welfare agency has granted freed hostage Clara Rojas full custody of the 3-year-old son taken from her during her years in a rebel camp in the jungle, the agency's director said Sunday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Friday for Europe to remove from its list of terrorist organizations two Colombian groups -- including FARC, the group that freed two hostages Thursday in a mission Chavez organized.
Psychologists are teaching the 3-year-old son of a released hostage to recognize the mother he was snatched from, showing him photos ahead of their long-awaited reunion.
Three weeks after he was released from a Nicaraguan prison where he spent more than a year of his life, 28-year-old Eric Volz says it's still hard to feel free.
A woman who was held hostage for nearly six years in Colombia waited Friday for a dramatic reunion with her 3-year-old son.
Two hostages freed by Colombian rebels have landed in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where dozens of their friends and family carrying flowers clapped and embraced them.
Jorge Isaac Anaya, a former Argentine navy chief who was the leading proponent of the past dictatorship's ill-fated 1982 invasion of the Falklands Islands, has died at 81.
For the third time, a federal judge has rejected attempts to block former Panamanian leader Gen. Manual Noriega's extradition to France to face money laundering charges.
Philip B. Agee, the former CIA agent who broke with the agency 40 years ago and then published a book about it, has died in Havana, Cuba's state-run newspaper Granma reported Wednesday.
Stolen paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari returned home to applause Wednesday, while police tried to find out who masterminded the robbery at a Brazil museum.
A high-ranking rebel leader who opposed peace talks with the Colombian government has been captured, authorities said.
Bolivian government representatives will meet with breakaway governors next week in a bid to avert a political split that threatens to tear the Andean country in half.
At least three U.S. residents were among 10 suspects arrested in a deadly shootout between Mexican authorities and suspected criminals just across the border from Texas, officials said.
Two Venezuelan men pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from a supposed scheme to cover up the source of $800,000 allegedly sent to the campaign of Argentina's president in a suitcase.
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