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US woman killed by gunshot in Mexican border city

AP - 2 hours 35 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY - A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. More »

  • Peru's Supreme Court has opened a three-day review into the 25-year prison sentence handed down to former president Alberto Fujimori, pictured, for human rights violations.

    Peru court reviews Fujimori's 25-year sentence

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    LIMA (AFP) - - Peru's Supreme Court has opened a three-day review of former president Alberto Fujimori's 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations.

  • Argentina's president urges Middle East peace

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's president says Israel and the United States should do more to push for peace in the Middle East.

  • Mexico City's famed dance-for-peso halls fading

    AP - Monday, November 23

    MEXICO CITY - Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house.

  • Thousands of Mexicans rallied to show support for

    Thousands back Mexico's shadow president

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    MEXICO CITY (AFP) - - Thousands of Mexicans rallied to show support for "shadow president" Manuel Lopez Obrador -- who believes his country's top job was stolen from him in 2006 -- at the mid-point of his would-be presidential term.

  • Venezuela: No direct talks with Colombia on bases

    AP - Monday, November 23

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela has no interest in talking directly to Colombia to end a monthslong crisis but would support an effort by other South American nations to broker a solution, a top government official said Sunday.

  • Venezuela to get 300 tanks, armored vehicles

    AP - Monday, November 23

    CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, and urging civilians to join government-organized militias to be ready to defend Venezuela from a foreign invasion.

  • Algeria court acquits 2 former Guantanamo inmates

    AP - Monday, November 23

    ALGIERS, Algeria - An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.

  • Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months.

  • Hundreds of people wave flags during a protest against President Daniel Ortega in Managua. Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital Saturday, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

    Thousands throng rival Nicaragua rallies, 12 hurt

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    MANAGUA (AFP) - - Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

  • Colombia's Uribe seeks to ease Venezuela tensions

    Reuters - Sunday, November 22

    By Jose Miguel Gomez

  • Venezuela captures wanted Colombian fugitive

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian official wanted for collaborating with outlawed right-wing paramilitary fighters.

  • Mexico says drug witness died in apparent suicide

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    MEXICO CITY - A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday.

  • Venezuelan police are pictured in May 2009. Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force, the interior minister announced Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors.

    Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary chief

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    CARACAS (AFP) - - Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force, the interior minister announced Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors.

  • A view of the Galeras volcano in 2005. A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

    1000 people evacuated after Colombia volcano erupts

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    BOGOTA (AFP) - - A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

  • Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.

  • Venezuelan soldiers prepare to blow up a footbridge that crosses the border between Colombia and Venezuela. Colombia warned its forces were on

    Colombia says its military on 'maximum alert'

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    BOGOTA (AFP) - - Colombia warned its forces were on "maximum alert" and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighboring Venezuela.

  • Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.

  • Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago _ even when they don't want to know their birth parents.

  • Guatemala reopening international adoptions

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan officials on Friday announced the resumption of international adoptions after a nearly two-year suspension prompted by the discovery that some babies were being sold.

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