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The leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago is sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison.
Honduras interim leader Roberto Micheletti says he will step aside briefly ahead of polls scheduled for the end of the month.
Paulo Roberto Vieira stumbled into the Brazilian consulate on L Street NW bedraggled, nearly broke and at the end of his rope.
A tearful Oprah Winfrey announces her talk show will end in September 2011 after 25 years on the air.
A Brazilian transsexual prostitute linked to a sex row involving an Italian politician is found burned to death, officials say.
Police in Peru arrest members of a gang accused of killing dozens of people to sell their fat for use in cosmetics.
The de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti, said he would hand over power to his cabinet ministers for a week, but he had no plans to cede power to Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted from the presidency on June 28.
PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.
A review of US Army and Pentagon policies is ordered by the defence secretary in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings.
Raúl Castro imprisons people on the charge of being "dangerous" and refuses to free scores of people who were imprisoned years ago, Human Rights Watch said,
A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.
A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.
Some Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support unemployed relatives in the United States.
TOKYO -- White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig will step down from his post and be replaced by Bob Bauer, a prominent Democratic lawyer who is President Obama's personal attorney, the White House said Friday.
A binational task force on U.S.-Mexico border issues will call Friday on the Obama administration and Congress to reinstate an expired ban on assault weapons and for Mexico to overhaul its frontier police and customs agencies to mirror the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
TOKYO -- White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig is expected to announce his departure as early as Friday, people familiar with the situation said, ending an embattled tenure in which he struggled to lead the closure of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A huge power failure involving the world's largest operating hydroelectric plant exposed the vulnerability of Brazil's electricity infrastructure.
KABUL, Nov 18 (IPS)- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS)- Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history.
SAN DIEGO, California, Nov 19 (IPS/IFEJ)- Stephen Mayfield, the recently appointed director of the University of California at San Diego's Algae Biotechnology lab, is taking on a Texas-sized challenge - giving birth to a nascent alternative energy industry.
KABUL, Nov 19 (IPS)- In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, Caterpillar turbines custom-built in Germany and giant transformers flown in from Mexico hum away at a brand-new power plant.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 20 (IPS)- Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok"sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.
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.
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (IPS)- As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror".
ST GEORGE'S, Oct 30 (IPS)- Grenada Today did not have the staff nor circulation associated with most major Caribbean publications.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 9 (IPS)- On the morning of Nov. 7, 2008 shortly after 10 a.m. as the second period was beginning, College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-storey cinderblock school in the Nerette neighbourhood of Petionville, fell in on itself.
NEW YORK, Nov 10 (IPS)- Since his appointment last spring as United Nations special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been called, half-seriously, "president of Haiti" and "viceroy".
HAVANA, Nov 17 (IPS)- Women in Cuba cite a variety of reasons to explain their decision to have only one child, ranging from the housing shortage to the rising cost of living and the many work responsibilities they have to shoulder. But many say that if things were different they would have a bigger family.
With his nation plagued by power failures and water shortages, President Hugo Chávez has turned to lecturing about overconsumption.
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS)- The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.
VANCOUVER, Canada, Nov 20 (IPS)- In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
TEMUCO, Chile, Nov 20 (IPS)-"This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS)- Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
MANAGUA, Nov 19 (IPS)- Two national surveys and the latest report on perceptions of corruption by Transparency International support the view that a culture of graft continues to undermine the foundations of Nicaraguan society, in spite of efforts to fight the problem in the last few years.
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 19 (IPS)- Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.
MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 20 (Tierramérica)- Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
INDIA A major separatist leader in Indian-controlled Kashmir agreed Tuesday to take part in direct talks with New Delhi to settle a six-decades-long dispute over the Himalayan region.
VERAPAZ, EL SALVADOR -- Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Like her neighbors in Rio's elegant Flamengo district, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello enjoys the trappings of wealth, from riding show horses to escaping on weekends to a mountain estate north of the city.
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.
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."
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 ...
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.
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?
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