Peru's justice minister removed amid scandal over pardoning of convicted media executive President Alan Garcia fired Peru's justice minister Tuesday amid questions over the pardoning of a former media executive convicted of taking payoffs to provide favorable coverage for a previous government. ...
A new party accused of ties to far-right criminal bands has emerged as a surprising force in Colombian politics, adding to worries that President Alvaro Uribe has failed to weaken drug-funded paramilitaries in the provinces. Voters made the Party of National Integration, ...
Costa Rica's president-elect says she will launch crackdown on drug trafficking gangs Costa Rican President-elect Laura Chinchilla says fighting drug trafficking will be one of her government's priorities. Chinchilla said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday that she wants ...
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, greets Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko upon his arrival at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Monday, March 15, 2010. Lukashenko is on a three-day official visit to Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Copyright 2010 AP News
Belarus president offers to help Venezuela strengthen military defenses to deter threats Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko offered to help Venezuela strengthen its military, saying Tuesday that President Hugo Chavez's government should not have to worry about foreign threats. Addressing lawmakers inside Venezuela's ...
SAN BARTOLO, Peru (Reuters Life!) - Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca. Pianezzi, 44, has ...
International Rugby Board (IRB) president Bernard Lapasset is backing Argentina's integration into the Tri-Nations tournament by 2012. In September, Argentina were "conditionally" invited to join the Tri-Nations by SANZAR, the organising body representing South Africa, New Zealand and Australia that runs the ...
Chile government says earthquake and tsunami killed 700, worst economic disaster ever The earthquake and tsunami that struck Chile last month killed 700 people and caused damages of nearly $30 billion, according to the government. And the ground hasn't stopped shaking. A ...
Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Brazil's president made a case Monday for playing a larger role in Mideast diplomacy, despite ...
The Holocaust memorial head, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, asked Brazil's president on Tuesday to help arrange a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel's arch-foe. "As a child of Buchenwald, I want to meet him so that he hears ...
