El Salvador's interior minister says that 40 people have died throughout the country following three days of heavy rains. ...more

November 8, 2009

Ecuador's government has hired a lawyer to appeal the sentences against a citizen on Florida's death row and called again Thursday for the U.S. to return the man to the South American country. ...more

January 29, 2009

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) -- Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday. Domestic intelligence services will continue to monitor the group, officials said. The German branch of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology has been under observation by domestic intelligence services for more than a decade. Top security officials asked state governments in December to begin gathering information on whether they had sufficient grounds to seek a ban. ...more

November 21, 2008

Mystery surrounded a powerful car-bomb explosion Saturday that ripped through a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus, killing at least 17 people and injuring 14 others in the deadliest terrorist attack in Syria in more than two decades. ...more

September 28, 2008

President Evo Morales struggled to assert control over a badly fractured Bolivia on Sunday as protesters set fire to a town hall and blockaded highways in opposition-controlled provinces, impeding gasoline and food distribution. ...more

September 15, 2008

The odds are against Paraguay's president-elect even before he takes office today. Fernando Lugo says his impoverished nation "could go up in flames" within months. ...more

August 15, 2008

Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile on Friday after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted, sending minor earthquakes rippling through the region. ...more

May 3, 2008

Fidel Castro, who is 81 and ailing, initiated a rare moment of political uncertainty in Cuba when he resigned this week after nearly five decades in power. He and his brother Raul represent the generation known in Cuba as the "historicos," those who rose to power because of their active early support for the revolution. ...more

February 22, 2008

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto accused the government Sunday of failing to crush Islamic militants, days after a suicide bombing killed 56 people during prayers in a mosque. ...more

December 24, 2007

A suicide attacker detonated a powerful bomb inside a crowded mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 50 people and wounding 100 as they celebrated one of Islam's major holidays with the country's former interior minister, state-run media reported. ...more

December 22, 2007