March 16, 2017 Cuban dissidents honor OAS secretary-general denied entry Cuban dissidents have recognized the secretary-general of the Organization of American States for defending human rights in their country even though the government denied him entry to attend the ceremony.
March 16, 2017 Search is on for 10-foot crocodile who ate a man while fishing in Mexico The attack was reported by three of the victim’s friends who were there and watched the whole thing unfold.
March 16, 2017 Brazil prison slaughter exposes gang war, banality of evil On New Year's Eve, some 1,200 inmates enjoyed funk music and danced with family members inside the walls of Complexo Penitenciario Anisio Jobim, the largest prison complex in Brazil's northern state of Amazonas Shortly after midnight, fireworks, paid for by gangs that dominate the prison system, lit up the sky in Manaus, an increasingly violent and gritty city of 2 million people that is the jumping off point to the Amazon jungle and central to Brazil's growing drug trade.
March 16, 2017 Body of Egypt's so-called Blind Sheikh brought home from US The body of a blind Egyptian cleric convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York has been brought back to Egypt for burial after he died in a U.S. federal prison over the weekend.
March 16, 2017 Venezuela VP blasts drug sanctions in full-page NY Times ad Venezuela's Vice President is using a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to lash out at Trump administration's decision to sanction him for drug trafficking.
March 16, 2017 Mass slaughter in Brazil prison exposes gang war over drugs Shortly after midnight on New Year's Eve, hundreds of inmates watched from a Manaus prison yard as the sky lit up with fireworks, paid for by the gangs that dominate the jail system.
March 16, 2017 AP PHOTOS: Brazil's crowded prisons feed gangs, violence First, dominate overcrowded prisons.
March 16, 2017 Thousands of Puerto Rico university students go on strike Thousands of public university students in Puerto Rico have gone on strike to protest looming budget cuts amid a deep economic crisis.
March 16, 2017 Philippines to deport convicted US pedophile The Philippines' Bureau of Immigration said Wednesday it had arrested a convicted American pedophile wanted by U.S. authorities for a string of crimes.
March 16, 2017 Airbus profit dives on problems with A400M military jet Surprise new costs for the long-troubled Airbus A400M military jet sent the European plane maker's profits plunging last year and will weigh on the company's financial prospects through next year, even as it forecast a rise in aircraft deliveries and demand.