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October 10, 2018

Bogota implores tourists to stop feeding pigeons

On a bright Sunday afternoon, a group of government workers walked around Bogota's most famous square dressed as pigeons, with cardboard beaks covering their noses, as thousands of real birds swarmed overhead and left their droppings on stately monuments.

October 10, 2018

Haley became a popular UN diplomat despite Trump policies

Nikki Haley came to her job as the top U.S. diplomat at the United Nations with no foreign policy experience, but in less than two years she made many friends — even among ambassadors from countries at odds with the Trump administration's policies.

October 9, 2018

Mexico man says he liked killing women because he hates them

A Mexican man who confessed to killing at least 10 women says he would kill again if freed because he hates women and prosecutors are looking into the possibility that he sold the bones of some of his victims.

October 9, 2018

Mexico opens 2,850-man military police base north of Cancun

Mexico's president inaugurated a 2,850-member military police base just north of Cancun Tuesday amid a rising wave of violence in the Caribbean coast resort.

October 9, 2018

Brazil candidate accused of spreading fake news stories

The runoff race for Brazil's presidency is heating up with a battle over fake news.

October 9, 2018

Russian influence rising in Balkans, Baltics, Central Europe

A week before a crucial election, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik traveled to Russia for a Formula One race — not because he's a big fan but for yet another meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

October 9, 2018

Former Guatemala vice president sentenced in corruption case

Former Guatemalan Vice President Roxana Baldetti was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison Tuesday for involvement in a fraudulent state contract to decontaminate a major lake.

October 9, 2018

Seoul says Kim Jong Un wants Pope Francis to visit N. Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants Pope Francis to visit the officially atheist country, South Korea said Tuesday.

October 9, 2018

Taiwan holds military drill with Paraguay amid China tension

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen hosted her Paraguayan counterpart Tuesday at a military exercise in a sign of the island's determination to withstand China's diplomatic onslaught.

October 9, 2018

US envoy on Afghan peace takes his mission to Pakistan

Washington's newly named point man tasked with finding a peaceful end to Afghanistan's 17-year war is in Pakistan to seek the help of the new government in Islamabad in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.