
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. "I believe that ...
Brazilian must register gay unions as marriages
Brazilian notary publics must register same-sex civil unions as marriages if the couple requests it, the country's National Council of Justice said ...

Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks
Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters ...

Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize
A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a ...

Mexico arrests 2 men in Malcom X grandson's death
Mexico City prosecutors say they have arrested two men in connection with the death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X.

Carlos the Jackal: Ex-enigma now mired in court
Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is appealing his ...

AP IMPACT: Cars made in Brazil are deadly
The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's ...

Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to ...

A look at new saints canonized by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has made hundreds of new saints at his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Here is a look at the people receiving the ...

Prison for ex-dictator soothes Guatemala
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt spent his first full day as a convict Saturday in a 16-by-13 foot cell with a small bed, bathroom and ...

World grapples with rise in cyber crime
International law enforcement agencies say the recent $45 million dollar ATM heist is just one of many scams they're fighting in an unprecedented wave ...

Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and ...

Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico City
Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday.

Developments in Guatemala trial of Rios Montt
In 1999: Guatemalan non-governmental organization Association for Justice and Reconciliation files a complaint against army officials, including ...

Rios Montt: From army to dictatorship to courtroom
Efrain Rios Montt ruled as Guatemala's dictator, served as president of Congress, preached as an evangelical pastor and now, at 86, has become the ...

Bloodless bank heist impressed cybercrime experts
A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the ...

Cuban spy officially stripped of US citizenship
A Cuban intelligence agent who served 13 years in a U.S. prison has officially been stripped of his American citizenship. Rene Gonzalez said Friday ...

Post-attack, top reporter worries his cover blown
His exclusives have triggered some of Colombia's biggest scandals, leading to the dismissals, arrests and prosecutions of dozens of crooked, sometimes ...

Global network of hackers steals $45M from ATMs
The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples ...

AP PHOTOS: Eerie ghost town comes up for air
A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.
NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote
Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here : voting. He'd lived through ...

Ex-dictator denies he ordered Guatemala genocide
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt denied on Thursday that he ordered the extermination of Ixil Mayas as he testified for the first time at ...

Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining ...
Uruguay general gets 28 years in prisoner's murder
Uruguay has convicted an active general for dictatorship-era human rights violations for the first time. Gen. Miguel Dalmao was sentenced to 28 years ...
IRS teams with Australia, UK, to expose tax cheats
The U.S. is teaming up with Australia and the U.K. in an effort to expose tax cheats from around the world. Tax agencies from the three countries have ...