Latin America & Caribbean
Blatter defies calls to quit as FIFA scandal widens
The corruption charges engulfing soccer\'s governing body have heaped shame and humiliation on the game, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday, ...Pressure mounts on FIFA’s Blatter to resign after arrests
FIFA\'s veteran president Sepp Blatter faced angry demands to resign after US indictments and arrests of top lieutenants engulfed the football supremo ...World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft
A major corruption storm that engulfed FIFA sent shock waves around world football Wednesday and led to calls to suspend a vote ...FARC peace negotiator killed in Colombia strike
The Colombian armed forces\' aerial bombing campaign against leftist guerrillas killed a member of the rebel negotiating team who had participated in ...Mexico and Texas struck by deadly storms
At least 13 people died and dozens more were injured after a freak tornado ripped through the northern Mexican city of Ciudad ...Colombian government, FARC rebels resume peace talks
The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas resumed peace talks Monday in Havana amid heightened tensions following air strikes that killed dozens of ...Tornado, floods leave deadly trail at Mexico-US border
A tornado ripped into a town in northern Mexico on Monday, killing at least 13 people and flattening hundreds of homes in ...Arab air strikes hit military bases in Yemen
Saudi-led air strikes hit three military bases in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday and the Yemeni government in exile expressed reservations ...39 dead in Mexico clash between police, armed civilians
At least 37 armed civilians and two federal police officers were killed in a clash Friday in western Mexico, a region torn ...Gap between rich and poor widens
The gap between the rich and poor in most of the world\'s advanced economies is at record levels, according to an OECD ...




