Latin America & Caribbean
Air strike kills 13 suspected militants in central Yemen
Thirteen people, including three civilians, were killed on Saturday in a U.S. drone attack on suspected al-Qaeda rebels in the central Yemeni ...Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings
A powerful, magnitude-7.5 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey said it was centred northwest of the ...Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez dies at 87
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who was praised as the most popular Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, died Thursday in Mexico City ...Chile declares disaster as fire storms historic port city
Four people have died in a fire raging in Chile, whose President Michelle Bachelet has declared a disaster area as the conflagration ...Strong earthquake rocks Nicaragua
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Volcano erupts in Ecuador
The Tungurahua volcano just outside of the Ecuadorian capital Quito has erupted, sending a plume of ash up to 10 kilometers into ...Strong 7.8-magnitude aftershock strikes near northern Chile day after powerful earthquake
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in northern Chile Wednesday, U.S. seismologists reported, just a day after another powerful tremor off the South ...Powerful earthquake strikes off Chile, triggers tsunami
A magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile\'s northern coast on Tuesday night, causing landslides and setting off a small tsunami that forced an ...Brazil forces occupy favela ahead of World Cup
More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro\'s international airport before ...Cuba approves law aimed at attracting foreign investment
Cuban parliament on Saturday approved a new foreign investment law aimed at attracting badly needed capital through tax cuts, a measure officials ...




