Mexico's highest court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold women's right to abortion in the capital.
Mexico's Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck at sea just west of Vancouver Island, Canada, on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Environmental officials are looking for the cause of an oil slick that has killed scores of penguins in southern Brazil.
An effort to overturn a law passed last year decriminalizing abortion in Mexico's capital appears doomed, an observer said Wednesday.
Hurricane Gustav weakened to a tropical storm as it aimed for Caribbean waters Tuesday evening after crossing onto Haiti's southern peninsula as a Category 1 storm that killed at least one person.
Three decapitated bodies were found Tuesday in an empty lot outside Tijuana, the federal attorney general's office said.
Cuban police have arrested dissident musician Gorki Aguila on a charge of "dangerousness," fellow band members said Tuesday.
A university student has been strangled to death by a captive 3-meter python at a park in Venezuela where the young man was working as an intern.
Tropical Storm Gustav continued on its path toward Haiti and the central Caribbean on Monday and threatened to reach hurricane strength before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said.
Mexico's highest court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold women's right to abortion in the capital.
Mexico's Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck at sea just west of Vancouver Island, Canada, on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Environmental officials are looking for the cause of an oil slick that has killed scores of penguins in southern Brazil.
An effort to overturn a law passed last year decriminalizing abortion in Mexico's capital appears doomed, an observer said Wednesday.
Hurricane Gustav weakened to a tropical storm as it aimed for Caribbean waters Tuesday evening after crossing onto Haiti's southern peninsula as a Category 1 storm that killed at least one person.
Three decapitated bodies were found Tuesday in an empty lot outside Tijuana, the federal attorney general's office said.
Cuban police have arrested dissident musician Gorki Aguila on a charge of "dangerousness," fellow band members said Tuesday.
A university student has been strangled to death by a captive 3-meter python at a park in Venezuela where the young man was working as an intern.
Tropical Storm Gustav continued on its path toward Haiti and the central Caribbean on Monday and threatened to reach hurricane strength before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said.
Nine of the 11 people killed in a weekend plane crash in Guatemala were members of a Utah-based antipoverty group, the organization announced Monday.
More than 200 people line an overpass above a stretch of Canada's busiest thoroughfare now known as the "Highway of Heroes" to pay final tribute to three soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Fidel Castro on Monday defended the Cuban taekwondo athlete who kicked a judge in the face at the Beijing Olympics, saying Angel Matos was rightfully indignant over his disqualification from the bronze-medal match.
A plane crash in eastern Guatemala on Sunday killed 10 people, including eight Americans, a Guatemalan official told CNN.
A small plane carrying U.S. humanitarian workers crashed in a field in eastern Guatemala on Sunday, killing 10 people, including five Americans, an aviation official and a survivor said.
A dog sheltered a newborn baby abandoned by its 14-year-old mother in a field in rural Argentina until the boy was rescued, a doctor said Friday.
The Dutch Navy said it has joined with the U.S. to seize 4.6 tons (4,200 kilograms) of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter that had set sail from Venezuela.
Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia was extradited to the United States on Friday to face racketeering charges, a year after his capture in a luxurious hide-out on the outskirts of South America's largest city.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors Thursday to create a plan to combat the nation's staggering rise in crime and kidnappings.
Paraguay's new president is replacing most of the country's top military leaders less than a week after taking office.
A moderate earthquake has shaken northern Chile, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
Five of Bolivia's nine states staged a civic strike Tuesday, protesting against President Evo Morales and demanding a larger share of the country's natural gas revenues.
In a nationwide measure, Argentina has granted gay couples the right to collect the pensions of their dead partners.
A news report says Peruvian President Alan Garcia has suspended civil rights in remote jungle regions where Indian groups are blocking highways and oil and natural gas installations in protest of laws that facilitate the sale of their lands.
Two babies were killed when a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay toppled an overcrowded bus, a U.N. official said Monday, denying reports that at least 30 passengers were feared dead.
At least 20 people including Italian tourists were killed Friday when two buses collided head-on in the Dominican Republic, an official said.
Leftist ex-bishop Fernando Lugo became Paraguay's president on Friday, ending six decades of one-party rule in a key step in the South American nation's democratic transformation.
Argentine authorities are investigating a possible link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine they were taking in a clinical trial.
A Paraguayan farmers group says landless protesters have invaded a northern hacienda, setting up tents and destroying crops to press their demands for terrain.
Pirates have hijacked a Thai cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast, the Kenya Seafarers Association said Thursday.
Tropical Storm Iselle slowly gained strength far off Mexico's southern Pacific coast on Thursday but was not expected to threaten land.
Ailing ex-President Fidel Castro marked his 82nd birthday in private on Wednesday, more than two years after he underwent emergency surgery and ceded power to his younger brother Raúl.
One of the first U.S. Army deserters from Iraq to seek refugee status in Canada has been ordered deported.
Canadian police have arrested a dozen teenagers for throwing rocks at police, just days after the police shooting death of Honduran teenager touched off riots in a Montreal neighborhood.
Stung by the kidnap-killing of a 14-year-old boy, the Mexico City government on Monday announced a program of anti-crime reforms, including more citizen involvement.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped slightly, but the overall rights situation remains "unfavorable" under President Raúl Castro's government with more brief detentions of dissidents, the island's leading independent human rights group said Tuesday.
A riot broke out and an officer was wounded in a neighborhood of Montreal where a young man had been shot and killed by police.
Robbers armed with machetes hacked a U.S. tourist to death and seriously wounded his wife in an attack aboard the couple's sailboat in northeastern Guatemala, the woman told The Associated Press.
When Americans go to the polls this November, there will be many factors that influence where they eventually decide to cast their vote:
A bold gamble by President Evo Morales to break a political deadlock and re-energize his leftist revolution paid off as Bolivia's voters resoundingly endorsed him in a recall referendum.
Police in Toronto, Canada, asked thousands of people to evacuate their homes Sunday after early morning explosions at a propane company sent balls of flames into nearby neighborhoods.
Tropical Storm Hernan turned into the fifth hurricane of the eastern North Pacific hurricane season Friday as its winds neared 75 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
Riot police used tear gas Wednesday as they blocked hundreds of Venezuelans protesting what they call new moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power.
The International Committee of the Red Cross expressed its concern Wednesday over what may have been the improper use of its emblem in the daring rescue last month of 15 hostages in Colombia.
Colombian military intelligence used the Red Cross emblem in a rescue operation in which leftist guerrillas were duped into handing over 15 hostages, according to unpublished photographs and video viewed by CNN.
Canada announced Wednesday that it will dispatch a warship to Somalia's coast to protect U.N. aid ships from pirate attacks.
Two people were killed, and at least 30 injured, in a confrontation between miners and police at a mine in central Bolivia, a Bolivian news agency reported.
The jury in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II began deliberating Monday at Guantanamo Bay, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
Brazilian authorities said the left arm of a British teen who was dismembered has been found along the banks of a remote river near the central city of Goiania.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner repeated her call this week to decriminalize personal drug use and crack down on traffickers and dealers.
A 40-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder Friday in connection with the stabbing and beheading death of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus, authorities said.
The Brazilian man accused of killing and dismembering a British teenager has confessed to the murder in a deposition to police attended by his lawyer.
An Ontario mayor said Friday that the savage beating and stabbing of a black Toronto man earlier this week has racial overtones.
President Hugo Chavez on Thursday ordered the nationalization of the Banco de Venezuela "to put it at the service of Venezuela" after denying approval for its sale.
As horrified travelers watched, a Greyhound Canada bus passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man who was sitting and sleeping beside him, a witness said Thursday.
A U.S. military judge allowed prosecutors to use a disputed interrogation as evidence at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial, ruling Thursday the defendant was not coerced into saying he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Police have accused a Brazilian man of dismembering his 17-year-old girlfriend, taking pictures of her body parts with his cell phone and stuffing her torso in a suitcase.
A government-controlled firm is forging ahead with plans to resume expansion of Brazil's nuclear power program.
The United States is losing access to one of its three counternarcotics bases in Latin America, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.
A chunk of ice spreading across 18 square kilometers (7 square miles) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.
DNA tests confirmed that a body found off the coast of Brazil is that of a priest who disappeared while flying over the Atlantic buoyed by hundreds of brightly colored party balloons, authorities said Tuesday.
Police have arrested the head of one of Colombia's main governing parties for alleged ties with far-right paramilitaries.
Hugo Chavez was on a hug-and-make-up visit to Spain on Friday, his first since last year's infamous exchange in which Spain's normally reserved monarch told the voluble Venezuelan leader to "shut up" at a summit in Chile.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday that it arranged for the release Wednesday of eight civilians held for a week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador's leftist president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017.
A former army commander in Argentina was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for his role in the kidnapping, torture and death of four activists in 1977.
A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists.
Colombia's minister of defense has admitted that two of the nine people involved in this month's daring rescue of 15 hostages held by Colombian rebels were pretending to be working for a Venezuela-based television news organization.
Two people who helped rescue 15 hostages from Colombian rebels posed as journalists from a real Venezuela-based television news organization, Colombia's defense minister said Wednesday.
Adoption officials said DNA tests indicate a Guatemalan baby reported stolen from her mother was being adopted by a U.S. couple, the first strong sign that the Central American nation's troubled adoption system relied in part on abducted children.
Argentina's state news agency said the president's top aide has resigned following the Senate's rejection of a government-backed export tax hike.
South Korean officials say five South Koreans who were kidnapped while driving in a Mexican border city have been set free.
Osama bin Laden's former driver knew the target of one of the hijacked planes on September 11, 2001, prosecutors said as the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan began Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow Tuesday to discuss a deal to spend billions on Russia weapons.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect the South American country from the United States.
The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan.
More than a million Colombians, clad in white and shouting "No more kidnapping," marked their independence day on Sunday with marches and concerts demanding freedom for hostages still held by leftist rebels.
Bus company authorities say 22 people have been killed in the crash of two buses north of Peru's capital.
One of five feet that have mysteriously washed up on the shores of British Columbia over the past year has been linked to a depressed man who disappeared a year ago, police said Saturday.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dropping an agricultural export tax that has provoked months of protests from farmers, a spokesman said Friday.
Tropical Storm Fausto has become a hurricane far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while two other tropical storms churn over the open ocean.
Colombian military intelligence apparently set up a Web site for a fake humanitarian group as part of a ruse to dupe leftist rebels into giving up 15 hostages this month.
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The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
Tropical Storm Fausto strengthened early Thursday well off the coast of the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, while Hurricane Elida weakened as it moved away from Baja California in the Pacific.
With Argentina's vice president casting the deciding vote, the country's Senate on Thursday narrowly defeated an increase on an agricultural export tax, which has provoked months of farmers' rebellion.
Argentina's Senate rejected a controversial grain-export tax package early Thursday, dealing a blow to the government on a key issue that has led to nationwide farm strikes and regional food shortages.
Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that the symbol of the neutral Red Cross organization was used in a hostage rescue mission that freed 15 people from leftist rebels two weeks ago.
The U.N.'s highest court on Wednesday ordered U.S. authorities to do everything in their power to halt the executions of five Mexicans on death row in Texas until their cases are reviewed.
A Bolivian navy captain says a boat has sunk after hitting another vessel during the night on Lake Titicaca. Six people are reported dead.
Tens of thousands of Argentine farmers and government supporters are staging dueling protests ahead of a Senate vote Wednesday on controversial farm taxes.
A 16-year-old Canadian prisoner weeps and buries his face in his hands in an interrogation video that provides the first public look at such an interview at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who stormed past barricades Tuesday near the National Palace during a rally to mark the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The highest-rated TV show in Colombia follows a rather grim plot line: Boy meets girl. Boy smuggles tons of cocaine. Longtime pals betray each other. Everyone ends up dead or in jail.
President Nicolas Sarkozy pinned the Legion of Honor -- France's highest award -- on former hostage Ingrid Betancourt on Monday, praising her courage and saying: "We love you."
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe took a stab at mending relations Friday after months of sniping that threatened billions of dollars in trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis between Latin America's top U.S. opponent and closest U.S. ally.
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