Colombia extradited 14 commanders of a right-wing paramilitary group to the US Tuesday to face drug trafficking...

Bogota, May 13 (DPA) Colombia Tuesday extradited to the US 14 commanders of extreme-right paramilitary groups who were suspected of drug...

India, Brazil and South Africa have expressed concern at the escalating violence in resource-rich Darfur in Sudan and asked all parties to work for peace, security and stability in the...

Caracas, May 13 (Xinhua) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree to nationalise the country's largest steel maker Sidor, the culmination of a re-nationalisation process that began last...

Washington, May 13 : A new study has determined that Inca surgeons in ancient Peru were highly skilled and they used to successfully remove small portions of patients' skulls to treat head...

Washington, May 13 : Sniffing dogs are helping to monitor and protect threatened wildlife in Brazil by detecting animal feces by...

West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels may be given a suspended sentence instead of a ban after being found guilty of hobnobbing with a bookmaker January last year when the Caribbean side toured...

By MICHAEL ASTORASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Blacks will outnumber whites in Brazil this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe unexpectedly extradited 14 imprisoned paramilitary leaders to the United States on Tuesday, declaring that they had violated terms of a...

Colombia extradited 14 former paramilitary leaders to the United States to face drug-trafficking and other charges after authorities said the warlords violated terms of a peace deal with the...

BRASILIA: Brazil's environment minister, hailed as a champion of the green movement but scorned by powerful farming groups, resigned on Tuesday after losing key battles in her efforts to protect...

5/13/2008, 10:39 p.m. EDT CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- A top U.S. energy official says Washington wants to boost ties with Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean nation that is the No. 1 supplier of liquid...

CHILE: May 14, 2008 PUERTO MONTT, Chile - A towering cloud of hot ash, gas and molten rock spewed miles into the air by a volcano in southern Chile has partially collapsed, raising fears it could...

BOGOTÁ, May 13 (IPS) - Fourteen former paramilitary chiefs were quietly extradited from Colombia to the United States before dawn on Tuesday on drug trafficking charges, in a move that drew criticism...

CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of troops rolled into Mexico's violent Sinaloa state on Tuesday to fight a powerful drug cartel run by the country's most-wanted man, following a wave of police...

LIMA (Reuters) - President Alan Garcia on Tuesday created the first environment ministry in Peru, where scientists say climate change is hitting hard because of the Andean country's rich...

NEW: Plane carrying 11 of them lands in Miami, Florida Suspects will face charges in U.S. stemming from alleged cocaine trafficking ring Authorities say men are former United Self-Defense Forces of...

In a surprise move Tuesday, the Colombian government announced the extradition of 14 former leaders of right-wing paramilitary groups to face charges of drug trafficking in the United States. ...

Baltimore bid farewell Tuesday morning to the Cuauhtemoc, the training tall ship for the Mexican navy.She was here for 4 days for tours, events and as an ambassador for...

Military soldiers remove ashes produced by the erupting Chaiten volcano in Futaleufu, Chile. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ferran Majol SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's government will give victims of an erupting...

The health of Mexico's economy has a direct impact on U.S. immigration patterns. The failure of the Mexican economy to perform at peak efficiency and to realize its full potential over the past...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is a 12 May 2008 ARTICLE 19 press release: ARTICLE 19 congratulates journalist Lydia Cacho and applauds the support shown to her by the international community...

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico's state fish, the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, has been designated as a candidate for possible protection under the...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States on Tuesday to stand trial on drug trafficking charges in a surprise move applauded by the Bush...

Scotiabank said its stake in Scotiabank Peru will rise to 98 percent from 78 percent as a result of the purchase from Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's biggest retail bank. No financial terms were...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 13 (IPS) - The year 1968 has become a symbol, but not necessarily one that is easy to sum up. High-profile violent events involving multitudes of people marked it as...

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates Tuesday in Caracas, where they signed several cooperation agreements including one to exchange Venezuelan...

SAO PAULO, May 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's stocks edged higher on Tuesday boosted by market bellwether Petrobras, while the national currency gained for a third session on rising dollar inflows from...

NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's recently-unveiled plan to boost exports and specific sectors of the economy was taken with a pinch of salt by rating agency Standard & Poor's, which noted...

MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks gained on Tuesday, led by gains in blue-chip shares such as top retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico and miner Penoles, while the peso held onto gains made on...

( AES), to send the 100 megawatts earmarked for the Chilean northern SING grid to the Argentine market because an Argentine thermal plant went off line for two weeks of maintenance. The Salta...

The Canadian chartered bank said that through this acquisition, it will increase its ownership of Scotiabank Peru to 98% from 78%. Terms of the agreement weren't disclosed....

Bogota - Colombia extradited 14 commanders of a right-wing paramilitary group to the United States Tuesday to face drug trafficking charges. The extraditions took place after Colombian President...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States on Tuesday on drug-related charges in a surprise move that brought praise from Washington but raised fears...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia extradited 14 former paramilitary leaders to the United States on Tuesday to face drug-trafficking and other charges after authorities said the warlords violated terms of...

Congress Must Insist on Mexican Police and Military Accountability in Merida Initiative Funding, Human Rights Group Says NEW YORK - May 13 -Given a long history of human rights abuses by Mexican...

MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks rose on Tuesday after stronger-than-expected U.S. retail sales outside the auto sector showed resilience in the world's biggest economy and Mexico's...

MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - A Mexican opposition party crucial to the success of a government energy reform proposal criticized a key plank of the plan on Tuesday, calling it "dark and...

Vodafone on Tuesday announced a deal with Entel PCS, one of Chile's leading mobile phone operators, under which the UK telecoms group will provide access to its global wireless network. It brings to...

WASHINGTON, May 13 (IPS) - Economic woes and hostility against immigrants in the United States are having a financial impact thousands of miles away, in the communities to which migrant workers send...

Colombia's interior ministry says the government has extradited 14 top paramilitary leaders to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. The ministry says the 14 were extradited because...

News reports said the men were taken at dawn to Catam military base near Bogota to be handed over to officials from the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Media here said the group includes top leaders of...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's interior minister says the government is extraditing 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States for failing to comply with a peace pact. Interior...

Colombia extradited 14 jailed paramilitary leaders on Tuesday to the United States, marking an effort by President Alvaro Uribe's government to take a hard line against the warlords while a...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia extradited 14 former paramilitary leaders to the United States on Tuesday to face drug-trafficking and other charges after authorities said the warlords violated terms of...

-(Dow Jones)- Brazil's electricity agency, Aneel, said late Monday that two consortiums registered the necessary documents to participate in an auction for the rights to build the 3,300-megawatt...

was currently exporting around 500,000 cubic meters of gas a day, not enough to meet central Chile's daily residential demand of 1.5 million cubic meters. According to the newspaper, residential...

G ) said Tuesday it has poured its first gold at the Penasquito project in Mexico. The Vancouver-based miner said nearly two million tonnes of ore has been stacked on the heap leach pads, with...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia extradited 14 top paramilitary warlords - many of them wanted on drug-trafficking charges - to the United States on Tuesday, saying they failed to comply with the...