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President Barack Obama praises the "valour" of those who responded to the deadly attacks at a US army base in Texas.
The head of a press association complained of governments' revoking broadcast licenses, fostering hostility toward journalists and giving a free hand to government supporters.
At each stage, the camps of the ousted president and of the acting president have been on different pages.
Two cities suffer blackouts as rationing is brought in following water shortages at an Ecuadorean hydro-electric plant.
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
Police in the US city of Orlando arrest a gunman who opened fire in an office, killing one person and injuring five others.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal to resolve the country's political crisis is "dead".
The US economy lost 190,000 jobs in October, taking the jobless rate above 10% for the first time since 1983.
Paraguay's president sacks the head of the armed forces, warning officers were plotting a coup against him.
The new commanders were sworn in a day after President Fernando Lugo abruptly removed the leaders of the army, navy and air force amid speculation of a possible coup attempt.
Mexicans, despite their reputation for formality, curse like sailors, a recent survey found. But exactly what is considered a bad word can require some interpretation.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO -- The number of minors swept up in Mexico's drug wars -- as killers and victims -- is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic culture of fast money, drug abuse and murder is creating a "lost generation."
Businesspeople say four months of political turmoil have caused long-term economic damage, isolating a country that had only recently drawn international investment and tourism.
The opening minutes of the soccer game brought a quick goal, and Rubén Bres and the 15 guests who had joined him around his battered TV erupted in cheers. But they were happy not just for their team. They were happy they could even watch.
Honduras's deeply fractured political forces signed an agreement Friday that could reinstate the president ousted in a coup four months ago and end a crisis whose impact has spread far beyond the poor banana-growing country, igniting partisan battles in Washington and threatening to polarize the ...
Honduras's deeply fractured political forces signed an agreement Friday that could reinstate the president ousted in a coup four months ago and end a crisis whose impact has spread far beyond the poor banana-growing country, igniting partisan battles in Washington and threatening to polarize the ...
SOUTH AMERICA In a private, low-key ceremony in Bogota on Friday, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers signed a pact to expand Washington's military presence in Colombia, a deal that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has called a threat to the region's security.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti reached an agreement late Thursday to resolve a months-long standoff over who should lead the country and appears to open the door for Zelaya to return to power.
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS)- As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel.
ST GEORGE'S, Oct 30 (IPS)- Grenada Today did not have the staff nor circulation associated with most major Caribbean publications.
PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov 6 (IPS)- While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident "brings the war home".
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS)- The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch his fraudulent reelection, IPS has learned.
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (IPS)- Four months ago, the Barack Obama administration announced that it would appoint an ambassador to Syria, ending a four-year freeze on diplomatic relations between the two countries.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4 (IPS)- The U.N. body responsible for monitoring human rights violations is investigating why hundreds of thousands - and possibly millions - of people in the United States are condemned to live on the streets.
HAVANA, Oct 16 (IPS)- Cuban President Raúl Castro is willing to risk unpopular measures to free the state from its excessive burden of subsidies and for-free services, as part of a programme to adjust public expenditure to shrunken government revenues and balance the budget.
HAVANA, Oct 12 (IPS)- While the Cuban government has intensified its protests against the U.S. embargo, typically hostile signals between the two nations have been mixed with hints of a more relaxed tone since U.S. President Barack Obama took office.
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS)- The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.
SANTO DOMINGO, Oct 23 (IPS)- The Dominican Republic passed the 38th version of its constitution Thursday evening, amending more than 40 articles that drew public protests and opposition from civil society groups and many average Dominicans.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 26 (IPS)- Caribbean media groups have drawn a line in the sand, warning regional governments that they will face strenuous opposition to proposed legislation requiring media workers to obtain a license to practice their profession in the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) grouping.
HAVANA, Oct 29 (IPS)- Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.
After a rough start, Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman in the presidency, is winding up her term as one of the country's most popular leaders.
MANAGUA, Nov 6 (IPS)- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has been accused before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of responsibility for a series of violent incidents, which in the view of some analysts and civil society organisations have harmed democracy in the country.
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (IPS)- After two years of work, 20 former presidents of Latin American countries have issued policy recommendations that they hope "will greatly improve the lives and social mobility of Latin America's poor, will produce a new dynamic for economic growth, and will strengthen Latin America's still-fragile democratic institutions".
SANTIAGO, Nov 5 (IPS)- The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 6 (IPS)- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead."
CARACAS, Nov 4 (IPS)- The activities of Colombian armed groups across the border in western Venezuela are aggravating the diplomatic conflict between the two governments, which are ideological opposites, and some analysts have begun to wonder just how far the tension will escalate.
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 5 (IPS)- A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward in terms of social policy.
MIAMI -- One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a new memoir that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly after the United States' failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.
PAKISTAN The Pakistani army claimed advances in its eight-day-old offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Sunday, while the militants' chief warned of more terrorist attacks around the country unless the military halts the assault.
ORLEANS, CALIF. -- W hat does a tough Mexican army major barking orders in the outlaw hills of the Sierra Madre have in common with the laconic sheriff detective from the north woods of California who puts a marijuana sticker on his truck as a joke?
U.S. authorities arrested 303 people Wednesday and Thursday in a nationwide sweep targeting the distribution network of La Familia, a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel known for its violence, messianic culture and control over the methamphetamine trade, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced...
MEXICO CITY -- Gustavo de la Rosa looks over his shoulder, notes suspicious license plates, changes his routine. As one of the most prominent human rights officials in Ciudad Juarez, he says he would be a fool not to. On Wednesday, his home town reached a milestone: more than 2,000 people slain this...
The Supreme Court set aside the objections of the Obama administration and said Tuesday that it will consider whether judges have the power to release Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States if they have been deemed not to be "enemy combatants."
MEXICO CITY -- When the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez penned his most recent novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," the wily old master knew he was being provocative.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn't take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends...
In the three months since soldiers expelled Honduras's leftist president, the Obama administration and the rest of the world have shunned the Central American country, cutting off aid and travel visas. But the isolated Honduran leadership has found one lifeline: Republicans on Capitol Hill.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chávez's government says Julio Cesar Rivas is a violent militant intent on fomenting civil war.
Despite a personal endorsement from President Obama, Chicago is eliminated from consideration early while Rio de Janeiro is awarded the 2016 Summer Games.
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