Latin America & Caribbean
Costa Rica volcano spews ash in most powerful eruption in 20 years
Costa Rica\'s Turrialba volcano belched a column of gas and ash up to 3,280 feet (1 km) into the air on Thursday ...US woman says her boyfriend killed her mother in Indonesia
An American woman charged with premeditated murder in the death of her mother on Indonesia\'s Bali island told a court Wednesday that ...US and Cuba re-establish direct telephone calls
The United States and Cuba have re-established a direct telephone link, the Cuban state telecommunications company said Wednesday, in the latest step ...Mind your manners, Venezuela tells U.S. official Jacobson
Venezuela\'s top diplomat called a senior U.S. official "petulant" and ill-mannered on Wednesday in response to her contention that sanctions were intended ...Colombia to temporarily halt bombing of FARC rebels
Colombia will stop air raids on Marxist FARC rebels for a month, President Juan Manuel Santos said, a major stride in a ...French sports stars among 10 dead in Argentina helicopter crash
Two helicopters carrying passengers filming a popular European reality show crashed Monday in a remote area of northwest Argentina, killing eight French ...U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials
The United States on Monday declared Venezuela a national security threat and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in ...Chile president meets 14-year-old girl asking for permission to die
Chile\'s President Michelle Bachelet on Saturday visited a 14-year-old girl suffering from cystic fibrosis who made a heart-wrenching video appeal to be ...Argentine judge dismisses criminal case against President Fernandez
There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran\'s purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge ...Guatemalan ex-president released from prison in bribe case
Former President Alfonso Portillo flew home Wednesday after being released from a six-year prison term in the U.S. for accepting $2.5 million ...