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UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients
The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients.
updated: Feb 9th - 7:32am

Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of Tijuana gang
Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders Monday, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years.
updated: Feb 8th - 10:56pm

UN: some Haitian hospitals are charging patients
The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients, saying it had learned some are levying fees for drugs.
updated: Feb 8th - 10:13pm

Doctor: Kirchner recovers well from artery surgery
Former President Nestor Kirchner is recovering well from emergency surgery on an important artery feeding blood to his brain, one of his doctors said Monday.
updated: Feb 8th - 9:29pm

Quake shakes southern Mexico, felt in capital
A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City.
updated: Feb 8th - 9:09pm

Bolivia expects 5,000 foreigners at climate forum
Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change.
updated: Feb 8th - 9:03pm

Venezuela declares emergency amid energy crisis
President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree declaring an energy emergency in Venezuela to facilitate his government's efforts to ease severe energy shortages.
updated: Feb 8th - 6:58pm

Chavez hosts new radio show _ at any moment
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a new radio program in which he can take to the airwaves at any time of the day or night.
updated: Feb 8th - 6:46pm

US Baptists' attorney in Haiti: Clients innocent
The new lawyer for 10 American Baptists charged with child kidnapping said Monday he believes they had paperwork to take 33 children out of the country after Haiti's devastating earthquake.
updated: Feb 8th - 5:53pm

Ex-mayor absolved in journalist's slaying in Peru
A Peruvian court on Monday absolved the former mayor of a jungle city in the 2004 killing of a reporter who accused him of cocaine trafficking.
updated: Feb 8th - 5:22pm

Report: Alligator kills 11-year-old girl in Brazil
A 13-foot (4-meter) alligator has reportedly attacked and killed a girl who was swimming in a Brazilian jungle river.
updated: Feb 8th - 2:53pm

Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti
More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the Bahamas will be returned directly to the earthquake-ravaged country, the Bahamian prime minister said Monday.
updated: Feb 8th - 2:13pm

Costa Rica elects 1st woman president in landslide
Costa Ricans have elected their first woman president as the ruling party candidate won in a landslide after campaigning to continue free market policies in Central America's most stable nation.
updated: Feb 8th - 2:20am

Smarter farming key to saving Amazon rainforest
Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender.
updated: Feb 8th - 12:00am

Amid drug war, Mexico less deadly than decade ago
Decapitated bodies dumped on the streets, drug-war shootings and regular attacks on police have obscured a significant fact: A falling homicide rate means people in Mexico are less likely to die violently now than they were more than a decade ago.
updated: Feb 8th - 12:00am

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