On the eve of the country's impeachment trial, 51 of the 54 Senators needed to permanently remove suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff from office had already committed to vote for impeachment when the vote is held next week... More
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Three Central American presidents have announced that they are forming a joint force to combat gangs and organized crime. ... More
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U.S. weapon manufacturers have made bigger contributions to the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a major turnaround after years of backing the Republican ticket.... More
A strong earthquake hit central Italy early Wednesday, killing scores and leaving large areas destroyed or damaged.... More
The investigation over Argentinean President Maurico Macri's offshore firm, as revealed in the Panama Papers, has put prosecutors on the trail of three Brazilian firms directly linked to his company, Fleg Trading.... More
Pro-Palestine organizers and activists in Ecuador's capital, Quito, converged on the nation's second-largest bank, Banco del Pacifico, calling on it to end its contract with the British-based security company G4S.... More
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis in Washington... More
Until as recently as last year, Peru’s national police force harbored a “death squad” that is responsible for the extrajudicial killings of at least 20 people over a four-year period... More
In the United States, former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a lawsuit alleging top Fox News executives punished her after she reported being sexually harassed by former Fox News Chair Roger Ailes.... More
Relatives of the dozens of victims killed in a massacre at the hands of Mexican federal police in the state of Michoacan last year are renewing their appeals for justice after the release of a scathing report that concluded that 22 of the murders were tantamount to “arbitrary executions.” ... More
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