Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been diagnosed with a brain condition called chronic subdural collection, her spokesman said Saturday.
Tropical Storm Karen apparently will not become a hurricane, but the storm still means a soggy weekend for parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Tropical Storm Karen apparently will not become a hurricane, but the storm still means a soggy weekend for parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The FBI traced the man accused of running Silk Road -- the Internet's most extensive criminal marketplace -- after he allegedly posted his Gmail address online.
Ten military police officers in Brazil are accused of torturing and killing a 47-year-old brick layer -- and then hiding his corpse.
A hurricane watch is in effect for parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast after Tropical Storm Karen formed in the southeastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico.
More than $1 million tossed from a plane in Bolivia
The parents of a 2-year-old girl in Monterrey, Mexico, have filed complaints after, they say, their daughter was expelled from day care because they're gay.
Here's an in-depth look at the life of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Here's a look at what you need to know about Venezuela, one of the top oil-producing countries in the world.
Here's some background information about the 2016 Summer Olympics scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the first time the Olympics will be held in South America.
Mexican police on Monday rescued 73 people who were being held hostage in the border city of Reynosa.
Venezuela's president said Monday that he is expelling three U.S. diplomats for their alleged involvement in acts of sabotage to destabilize the country.
Venezuela's president says his right-wing opponents have unleashed a new weapon: an imitation of Hugo Chavez's voice.
Colombian president: Rebels' decision to release American captive to Jesse Jackson 'media spectacle'
The Cuban government will allow its athletes to seek pro contracts abroad, a first. Athletes will have a tough time cashing in in the United States.
An American held by Colombian rebels will be released "imminently," U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Saturday after meeting with rebel leaders.
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he wants to create a new court system to bring the United States to trial.
Venezuelan authorities announce additional arrests in connection with a massive shipment of cocaine in an Air France flight to Caracas that landed in Paris.
Four police officers have been arrested in the mass kidnapping and killing of 13 young bar-goers in Mexico City.
An Irish woman and a Scottish woman accused of trying to smuggle 25 pounds of cocaine from Peru to Europe pleaded guilty to the charges, a court says.
The death toll from widespread flooding in Mexico in recent days has increased to 110 people, the country's interior minister said Sunday.
Venezuela takes over a toilet paper plant, with its vice president saying the government won't "allow hoarding or failures in the production" of essential goods.
The death toll from several storms that hit Mexico this week rose to 101, authorities said late Friday.
U.S. officials said Friday that -- contrary to Venezuelan claims -- the aircraft of Venezuela's president is cleared to enter U.S. airspace on a flight to China.
Manuel weakened into a tropical storm, but was still bringing heavy rains to Mexico Thursday.
Venezuela accused the United States on Thursday of denying President Nicolas Maduro's plane permission to enter U.S. airspace -- a claim that a State Department official denied.
An American Airlines plane flying from Costa Rica to Miami made an emergency landing on Colombia's San Andres Island, CNN affiliate Caracol TV reported.
Dozens of people are missing after a mudslide that buried homes as Hurricane Manuel pounded the country's Pacific coast, Mexico's president said Wednesday.
A passenger train collided with a double-decker city bus in Ottawa on Wednesday, leaving at least six dead.
The United States and Brazil jointly agreed on Tuesday to postpone Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's state visit to Washington next month due to controversy over reports the U.S. government was spying on her communications.
Mexico grappled Monday with a deadly double-punch of tropical weather.
Rivers overflowed their banks, mudslides buried houses and roadways flooded as tropical storm systems hit opposite sides of Mexico, killing at least 21 people.
Residents of Mexico's central state of San Luis Potosi felt the first signs of Hurricane Ingrid's outer bands Saturday.
Jonathan Trappe, who aimed to cross the Atlantic Ocean suspended from 370 helium-filled balloons, ends his mission 12 hours and about 470 miles into the journey
After a student made obscene comments about her on Twitter, a high school teacher in northern Mexico taught a lesson with an online post of her own.
Mexican authorities say they've arrested three additional suspects connected to the kidnapping of 13 youths from a bar in the country's capital.
Amid NSA spying claims that have roiled Brazil, the country's foreign minister was in Washington Wednesday as part of a push to get answers from the U.S.
September 11 has been somewhat eclipsed in the last decade by a more notorious anniversary, but it remains a date etched in Chileans' minds: in 1973, this was the day General Augusto Pinochet seized power from the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende. Forty years after that sudden coup, and 23 years since its return to democracy, Chile is still recovering from the effects of Pinochet's brutal rule.
Forty years have passed since the military coup in Chile that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship.
Argentine authorities called a man's survival after months in the frigid Andes a miracle. Now Chilean prosecutors say he's wanted in a child sex abuse case.
Authorities have arrested a man they say was the leader of a kidnapping cell responsible for raping and torturing victims along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Venezuelan legislator Adel El Zabayar is in Syria supporting President Bashar Al-Assad.
Tropical Storm Gabrielle was downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday, but Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic were still likely to get heavy rain.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
She calls herself "Diana, the Hunter." Authorities say the elusive woman has killed at least two bus drivers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The pope pulled out the Vatican's ambassador to the Dominican Republic after a report connected him to child abuse. Now authorities are investigating.
Diana Nyad on Monday became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, willing her way to a Key West beach just before 2 p.m. ET.
The U.S. National Security Agency directly targeted the communications of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, according to a Brazilian news report.
The suspected leader of Mexico's New Juarez Cartel has been arrested, the Notimex news agency reported, the latest in a series of high-profile drug arrests.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the Mexican Drug War. The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006. At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for control of territory. More than 60,000 people have been killed.
Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was better than halfway across the strait separating Cuba from the Florida Keys on Sunday afternoon, her support team reported.
Diana Nyad, 64, began her fifth and last bid to swim from Cuba to the United States on Saturday morning.
Eight bus drivers in Paraguay have nailed themselves to crosses and gone on a hunger strike to protest their firings.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday the deployment of 50,000 soldiers to patrol the streets of Bogota, the capital, after violent protests.
An Ontario mom is speaking out after a family received an anonymous letter imploring them to move or euthanize their autistic son.
Cuban weapons found in July aboard a North Korean ship trying to cross the Panama Canal violated United Nations weapons sanctions, Panamanian officials said.
World Cup and Olympics preparations: Rio's high-tech master control of the city, the Operations Center, is paving the way for a sustainable future.
At least six people died when a building collapsed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, a state security spokeswoman said.
Here's some background information about Operation Fast and Furious. From 2009 - 2011, under Operation Fast and Furious, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Phoenix Field Division, along with other partners, allowed illegal gun sales believed to be destined for Mexican drug cartels in order to track the sellers and purchasers.
Revenge was the motive in the killings of youths kidnapped from a Mexico City bar, authorities said Monday; 10 bodies were recovered from a shallow grave
Antonio Patriota, Brazil's foreign minister, stepped down Monday night amid a diplomatic row with neighboring Bolivia.
Mudslides killed at least 13 people after Tropical Storm Fernand slammed into the east of coast of Mexico.
The death toll from a cargo train derailment in Mexico climbed to six on Monday as authorities continued searching the scene of the wreck for victims.
Colombian Army says 13 of its troops were killed Saturday in a rebel attack.
Tropical Storm Fernand is expected to make landfall early Monday, just hours after it formed over the western Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.
A cargo train with stowaway migrants on board derailed in southern Mexico on Sunday morning, killing five people and injuring 17 more, officials said.
Five of the bodies found this week in a shallow grave near Mexico City are those of teens who were kidnapped from a bar three months ago, authorities said.
A prison brawl and fire left 29 inmates dead and dozens injured in eastern Bolivia, state media reported Friday.
A clandestine mass grave found near Mexico City may hold the answer to what befell 12 youths who were kidnapped from a bar in the capital back in May.
Authorities are mulling criminal charges against the writer of letter to an Ontario family urging them to move or "euthanize" their autistic son.
Carmelo Flores Laura and his family say he is 123 years old. A research organization says he is 107. Either way, the government of Bolivia is honoring him.
Sandra Avila Beltran, known as the Queen of the Pacific, was deported Tuesday from the United States to Mexico, where she will face money-laundering charges.
Views on marijuana are shifting, but nearly everywhere it is too early to talk about substantive changes to drug policies. Not so in Uruguay.
A suspected leader of Mexico's Gulf Cartel has been arrested near the U.S. border, a Mexican official said Sunday.
Aeromexico airline and an advertising company apologized for a commercial casting call that said "dark-skinned" people would not be allowed to audition.
Police say 40 ball pythons were confiscated from a single motel room on Thursday in Brantford, Ontario, about 65 miles southwest of Toronto.
Scientists at the Smithsonian announced Thursday the discovery of a mammalian species called the olinguito.
Alan Gross, a U.S. State Department contractor jailed in Cuba, received his first visit by American doctors, Gross' attorney said Thursday.
Less than a week after drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was released from prison because of procedural errors, the Mexican government wants him locked up.
Here's some background information about Cinco de Mayo which commemorates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on May 5th every year.
A Scottish and an Irish woman arrested in Peru on suspicion of drug trafficking are expected to appear before a judge Wednesday.
Melissa Reid of Scotland and Michaella McCollum Connolly of Ireland are arrested in Peru on suspicion of drug trafficking.
A month after Panamanian authorities intercepted a North Korean ship with military equipment hidden on board, U.N. inspectors were ready to take a look.
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake was reported Tuesday morning in South America, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Firefighters were battling a blaze at a Venezuelan refinery Sunday after a lightning strike, a top official in the country's state oil company said.
Two arrests have been made in the case of a 17-year-old girl who hanged herself after she was allegedly gang-raped and bullied online, Canadian officials said.
Community mourns two brothers killed by a 100-pound python while they slept at a friend's home.
Rafael Caro Quintero, wanted in the U.S. for the torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, has been ordered released from a Mexican prison.
Costa Rican officials plan to close the country's public zoos and open the cages where animals have been kept.
The two boys apparently killed by a 100-pound African rock python in Canada, likely died from asphyxiation, according to preliminary autopsy results.
A bus plunged off a bridge outside Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, killing at least six people, state-run Agencia Brasil reported.
The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd., the train company involved in the deadly crash last month in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that left at least 42 people dead, filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Canada, the railway said Wednesday.
Venezuela's Supreme Court has upheld the country's presidential election results, ruling Wednesday against the opposition candidate's challenge.
They call them piranhas. Some say thieves are attacking women in Venezuela with scissors, stealing their hair.
Two boys were found dead Monday morning in a Canadian town. Their suspected killer is a python.
Leaking gas was likely to blame for an explosion that killed at least 12 people in Argentina Tuesday.
Internet access becomes a reality for some Cubans, with 118 government-supervised "navigation halls" now open and charging $4.50 an hour to go online.
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