Americas
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MEXICO CITY—One day after Mexico angered U.S. officials by publishing an entire 751-page U.S. case file against former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, the Mexican prosecutors who ...
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GUATEMALA CITY—Guatemalan soldiers blocked part of a caravan of as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants Saturday at a point not far from where they entered the ...
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MILAN—Italy is suspending flights from Brazil, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Saturday, in response to a new coronavirus variant. Anyone who has transited Brazil in ...
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The Trump administration on Monday re-designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism and will impose new sanctions in the coming days. Secretary of State Mike ...
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TOKYO—A new coronavirus variant has been detected in four travelers from Brazil‘s Amazonas state, Japan‘s Health Ministry said on Sunday, the latest new mutation of the ...
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NEW YORK—U.S. federal prosecutors have filed motions saying that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took bribes from drug traffickers and had the country’s armed forces protect ...
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MEXICO CITY—A fire struck Mexico City’s downtown subway headquarters early on Saturday, officials said, as smoke billowed out of the multi-story building roof, causing at least ...
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The United States will not allow a group of migrants that is readying a trip north from Honduras to travel to the U.S. border.
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MEXICO CITY—Unidentified gunmen burst into a wake in the central Mexican city of Celaya late on Thursday and shot dead nine people, authorities said, one of ...
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BOGOTA—Colombia’s capital will enter a strict quarantine until Tuesday due to rising coronavirus infection numbers and suspicions a new variant of the virus is circulating, Mayor ...
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Officials in Mexico are ready to provide political asylum to Wikileaks’ co-founder Julian Assange after a British court ruled the Australian publisher won’t be extradited to ...
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WASHINGTON—The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Venezuelan judge and a prosecutor over their roles in the trial of six former executives of U.S. ...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Volcanoes that have been quiet for decades are rumbling to life in the eastern Caribbean, prompting officials to issue alerts in Martinique and ...
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It’s not just America, now the Canadians are also giving taxpayer money to Chinese state-owned companies as part of the COVID-19 subsidy. Some of the companies ...
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The United States is sanctioning a Venezuelan tech company for its involvement in the Maduro regime’s allegedly fraudulent elections earlier this month. The Treasury Department is ...
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The U.S. Department of State and Treasury Department on Friday took action against a Venezuelan election systems company for supporting socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s allegedly fraudulent ...
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MEXICO CITY—Two gas explosions struck an oil refinery belonging to Mexican state oil company Pemex on Thursday, the governor of northern Nuevo Leon state said, but ...
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Scientists working off the western coast of Mexico say they have found a previously unknown species of whale. Three beaked whales were spotted last month by a team of ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Commercial flights with Boeing 737 MAX jetliners resumed Wednesday for the first time since they were grounded worldwide following two deadly accidents nearly two ...
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WASHINGTON—A new report by a National Academy of Sciences committee has found that “directed” microwave radiation is the likely cause of illnesses among American diplomats in ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO—A bus careened off an overpass in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on Friday, killing at least 10 people, according to the Twitter ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO—More than 20 armed robbers stormed a bank in a small Brazilian town on Wednesday, taking hostages, exchanging gunfire with police in the streets, ...
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WASHINGTON—The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Chinese firm China National Electronics Import & Export Corporation (CEIEC), accusing it of supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s ...
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Nov. 29 that he is aware of “a lot of fraud” in the U.S. presidential election.
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Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge and immediately sentenced to prison.
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Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, widely regarded as one of the game's greatest ever players, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, his lawyer said.
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SAO PAULO—At least 40 people died in Brazil on Wednesday after a crash between a bus and a truck in the state of Sao Paulo, the ...
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TEGUCIGALPA/MEXICO CITY—The death toll from storm Iota is slowly rising in Central America as authorities on Thursday said they had recovered more bodies buried in landslides ...
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TEGUCIGALPA/MEXICO CITY—Storm Iota unleashed devastating floods across Central America on Wednesday in areas already waterlogged, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in a ...
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A former Mexican minister accused of drug trafficking and money laundering may have his case investigated in Mexico and charges dropped in the United States, officials ...
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