At least 11 people have been killed as massive wildfires have swept over central and Southwestern Chile, government officials said Saturday. President Michelle Bachelet declared a...
About 200 inmates escaped from a prison in south-eastern Brazil after riots, Agencia Brasil reported. The incident occurred on Tuesday around 8:30am in Bauru, in Sao...
Mario Soares, who was widely seen as the father of Portugal’s modern-day democracy, died at age 92 in Lisbon on Saturday. Soares, a Socialist leader who...
Police contend Greece’s ambassador to Brazil was killed by his wife’s lover — a military police officer — and the widow is being questioned in the...
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Chile Sunday. There were tsunami warnings, but they have been lifted. The quake hit 150 miles southwest of Puerto Montt, at a...
Colombia’s Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics said five people died when an Aerosucre cargo Boeing 727 crashed following a failed takeoff in the Puerto Carreño...
The Cuban government announced a two-month Internet trial, with 2,000 homes to be wired in the old Havana district of the capital. The installation of home...
A huge explosion has rocked a pyrotechnics market in Greater Mexico City, injuring dozens of people. Eyewitnesses captured the exact moment of the blast on video....
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize after reaching a deal to end one of the longest-running wars in Latin America. Santos accepted...
The commander-in-chief of Brazil’s Military Police has apologized to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro after officers shot at protesters with rubber bullets from within...
Funeral burials began on Sunday for the Brazilian victims killed in the LaMia Flight 2933 plane crash in Colombia in which 71 people died. A charter...