March 22, 2019 Nicaragua opposition eyes imminent deal on prisoner releases Nicaragua's opposition is hoping for approval Friday of a schedule for freeing 640 people considered political prisoners, a leader of the opposition group Civic Alliance told The Associated Press.
March 22, 2019 China stops purchase of Canadian canola seeds China has stopped all new purchases of Canadian canola seeds in what some see as retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei.
March 22, 2019 Ex-President Temer to give testimony in Brazil after arrest Brazilian federal police expect to take testimony from ex-President Michel Temer and his former Cabinet minister Wellington Moreira Franco on Friday, a day after both were arrested as part of the country's sprawling Car Wash corruption probe.
March 22, 2019 Catholic priest stabbed during televised mass in Canada A Catholic priest was stabbed several times while leading mass on Friday morning in Montreal.
March 22, 2019 Tate galleries won't accept donations from Sackler family Britain's Tate group of galleries won't accept future donations from the charitable arm of a family embroiled in the U.S. opioid crisis.
March 22, 2019 Seoul: North Korea withdrew staff from liaison office South Korea says North Korea has withdrawn its staff from an inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea.
March 21, 2019 Mexico launches plan to mark vaquita porpoise reserve The Mexican government says it will mark the reserve of the world's most endangered marine mammal with buoys, in a bid to save the last remaining 10 or so vaquita porpoises.
March 21, 2019 Nicaragua government, opposition to discuss prisoner release Nicaragua's government and opposition began negotiating Thursday how to carry out the release of hundreds of political prisoners arrested in the past year of unrest.
March 21, 2019 Facing arrest warrant, candidate delays return to Guatemala Presidential hopeful and former chief prosecutor Thelma Aldana will not immediately return to Guatemala after a warrant was issued for her arrest, she said in interviews with local media Thursday.
March 21, 2019 Mexico's last penal colony starts new life as nature center It's unclear if Islas Marias ever really worked as a penal colony: The remote Mexican archipelago is battered regularly by hurricanes, and its ramshackle, often century-old installations are sprinkled with the ruins of failed "productive" projects that once aimed to make the prison population self-sustaining.