December 9, 2016 Bolivian official breaks silence about air crash in Colombia A Bolivian official who signed off on the flight plan for a chartered aircraft that crashed in the Andes is breaking her silence and accusing her bosses of trying to stage a cover-up.
December 9, 2016 Mexico general says army not happy with law-enforcement role Mexico's top military officer said Thursday that the army is uncomfortable with the law-enforcement role it was given a decade ago when the government launched an offensive against drug cartels.
December 8, 2016 Woman described as Canada's Rosa Parks to appear on banknote A black woman often described as Canada's Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater will be the first woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote.
December 8, 2016 Italian tourist killed in favela in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro An Italian tourist was killed Thursday in a shantytown near the center of Rio de Janeiro in an area fought over by rival drug trafficking gangs, police said.
December 8, 2016 Mexican leftist senators defend battering Trump pinata Senators from Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party are defending a private party at which they took turns whacking a pinata in the shape of U.S. President-elect Donald J.
December 8, 2016 Russian official: Russia, US near deal on Aleppo cease-fire A Russian deputy foreign minister says Russia is close to reaching a deal with the United States on a cease-fire for the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.
December 8, 2016 Manila says will not help US on patrols in South China Seas Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana says it is highly unlikely the Philippines will allow the U.S. military to use the country as a springboard for its freedom of navigation patrols in the disputed South China Sea to avoid antagonizing China.
December 8, 2016 Unemployed fishermen in Venezuela become pirates, terrorize coastal towns Once home to the world's fourth-largest tuna fleet and a thriving fishing industry, the catch in the Venezuelan state of Sucre is down to less than a third of what it produced in 2004.
December 8, 2016 Venezuelan human rights activist: Time for action, not talk, as our citizens continue to starve Procrastination through conversations with Maduro's regime will not solve food and medicine shortages, nor will it remedy the street violence, nor will Venezuelans wake up suddenly enjoying their constitutional and human rights.
December 8, 2016 A lethal mistake leads to a harrowing ambush in Iraq's Mosul As Iraqi forces advanced toward the al-Salam hospital in Mosul earlier this week, encountering only light resistance from Islamic State fighters, commanders decided to seize the facility instead of sweeping the neighborhoods along the road leading to it.