January 5, 2017 Looting in Mexico spiraling out of control over 20% gas hike; 430 arrested Store guards were overrun by crowds who carried off clothing, food, washing machines, televisions, DVD players and refrigerators.
January 5, 2017 UK Brexit-backer Nigel Farage to attend Trump inauguration British anti-European Union politician Nigel Farage says he will attend Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.
January 5, 2017 Sweden gets written report from Assange interview in London Swedish prosecutors have begun an assessment of a recent interview of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which forms part of an inquiry into a possible sex crime involving Assange in Sweden in 2010.
January 5, 2017 Mexican president defends gas price hike as protests spread Mexico's president is strongly defending his unpopular move to hike gasoline prices 20 percent as highway blockades and protests continue across the country.
January 5, 2017 Tone deaf decisions deepen challenges for Brazil's president His country mired in recession, Brazilian President Michel Temer's government ordered $400,000 worth of food, including 500 cartons of Haagen-Dazs ice cream and 1.5 tons of chocolate cake, for his official plane trips in 2017 only to cancel the order hours later amid public outrage.
January 4, 2017 Gunmen slay 6 vendors at pop-up market in Mexico's Acapulco Attackers shot six vendors to death at an informal market Wednesday in the troubled Mexican resort city of Acapulco.
January 4, 2017 Venezuela's Maduro names new vice president Venezuela's embattled socialist president has reshuffled his Cabinet and named a former interior minister as vice president.
January 4, 2017 Puerto Rico files bill in quest to obtain statehood by 2025 Puerto Rico's new congressional representative has filed a bill that would turn the island into the 51st U.S. state by 2025.
January 4, 2017 Scuttled Ford plant has Mexico fearing more under Trump Ford Motor Company's cancellation of plans to build a $1.6 billion auto manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi has sounded alarms throughout Mexico.