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Wife sees American jailed in Cuba, fears he'll die
The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a trip to Cuba to see her husband, and is fearful he will not survive ...
APNewsBreak: US halts Mexico flights for migrants
The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a ...
16 bodies found in truck in southern Mexico state
Police in southern Guerrero state found 16 bodies left in a truck in a region plagued by drug violence. The bodies were found in Coyuca de Catalan, ...
Rebel deserter helps free hostage in Colombia
A deserter from a Colombian guerrilla army has led an Ecuadoran hostage to freedom. The rebel, whose name was not released, led Orlando Sigifredo ...
9th prisoner dies at Guantanamo; cause under study
Another prisoner has died at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday, two days after the man was apparently found ...
Ninth prisoner dies at Guantanamo
A prisoner has died at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday, two days after the man was apparently found ...
Power back in Cuba after massive blackout
Power was restored to millions of people early Monday after a blackout that cut the lights in much of western Cuba, including the capital Havana.
US rum subsidies hammer Caribbean producers
Rum, the sugar-based liquor that has fueled the development of the Caribbean for centuries, has become the focus of an increasingly bitter dispute ...
Power failure plunges western Cuba into darkness
Millions of people were plunged into darkness after power went out across a large swath of western Cuba. The outage affected a wide area including the ...
Coldplay, Rihanna, Jay-Z close London Paralympics
Farewell, London. Good luck matching that, Rio. Coldplay, Rihanna and Jay-Z rocked the Olympic Stadium on Sunday night to give the biggest-ever ...
Ex-candidate quits Mexico's main leftist party
The man who led Mexico's main leftist party in the past two presidential elections announced Sunday he is leaving it behind and may start a new party, ...
No sign of killings in isolated Amazon village
Venezuelan officials and journalists investigating reports of a possible massacre in a remote indigenous village in the Amazon have found people ...
Adopting Daniel: US couple tests new Guatemala law
It should have been good news. The U.S. Embassy called to say the Guatemalan government would begin to authorize adoptions five years after a scandal ...
Murdered schoolboys shake Salvador's gang truce
The schoolboys went missing on a Thursday, and it took nearly three weeks for police to discover the mass grave. On July 11, a police investigator, ...
Bermuda wary, but calm as storm likely to pass by
Tropical Storm Leslie swirled northward in the Atlantic late Saturday toward Bermuda, and forecasters said it might strengthen into a hurricane again ...
NGO disputes official report on Honduras shooting
A U.S.-based non-governmental organization on Saturday criticized Honduras' official investigation of a fatal shooting during a drug interdiction ...
Bolivia's VP and journalist marry in Aymara rites
The nation's vice president and his bride chose for their Saturday nuptials a temple of stone walls that the ancient Aymara people constructed some ...
Pistorius ends games with 1st individual 2012 gold
Oscar Pistorius completed his groundbreaking dual-games trip to London by finally winning an individual gold, defending his Paralympic 400 meters ...
Nicaragua evacuates 3,000 as volcano spews ash
The San Cristobal volcano spewed out a column of ash and gas 2½ miles high Saturday, leading Nicaraguan authorities to evacuate about 3,000 people ...
Questions and answers on the 9/11 war crimes trial
The U.S. is for a second time attempting to prosecute five prisoners held at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for planning and aiding the Sept.
Tweets of false shootouts cause panic in Mexico
Mothers rushed to pull their kids out of school, shopkeepers slammed down their metal gates, and bus drivers radioed one another about streets to ...
Jamaica beats US 2-1 in World Cup qualifier
After Clint Dempsey scored the fastest U.S. goal in World Cup qualifying, the Americans played a listless game, lost to Jamaica for the first time and ...
FARC upbeat on peace talks despite differences
After nearly five decades of violent struggle and failed attempts at detente, there is plenty of mistrust and bad blood between Colombia's government ...
Korean War vet gets belated honors in Puerto Rico
A Puerto Rican retiree who served in some of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War received a belated appreciation Friday from the U.S.