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August 31, 2016

El Salvador judge orders ex-attorney general remain in jail

A judge in El Salvador has ordered that the country's former attorney general remain in jail on new charges that he divulged intercepted telephone conversations in prosecuting a Roman Catholic priest from Spain in 2014.

August 30, 2016

Mexico issues transit visas to surge of African migrants

Mexican immigration authorities say 424 migrants from African countries arrived at the southern state of Chiapas over two days last week.

August 30, 2016

Brazil's Rousseff defends self ahead of Senate's ouster vote

On what could prove to be her last day as Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff mounted a forceful defense of her time leading Latin America's most populous nation, warning senators that ousting her would hurt a young democracy while defiantly promising to go down fighting in what many see as a losing battle.

August 30, 2016

France criticizes Turkish military intervention in Syria

French President Francois Hollande has criticized Turkey's "contradictory" military intervention in Syria and warned Russia not to become a "protagonist" in the war.

August 30, 2016

The Latest: Turkey asks US to drop support for Syrian Kurds

The Latest on developments in the Syrian conflict, following Ankara's incursion into the war-torn state last week (all times local): 2:20 p.m.

August 30, 2016

What next? Opaque Uzbekistan faces transition anxieties

Whether Uzbekistan's president is at death's door or has already passed through is unclear, but that may not be the greatest uncertainty facing the country — it's what comes after his death.

August 30, 2016

Italian among 2 dictatorship victims identified in Paraguay

Paraguayan human rights groups say they've identified the remains of an Italian woman and a Paraguayan man who were seized by authorities during a bloody regional crackdown on dissidents in the 1970s.

August 30, 2016

Ex-Guantanamo detainee returns to Uruguay from Venezuela

Uruguayan authorities say that a resettled Guantanamo prisoner who went missing for weeks and later resurfaced in Venezuela has now returned to Uruguay.

August 30, 2016

Crossbow suspect alleged to have killed mother, brothers

Police say a man who used a crossbow in a triple homicide in Toronto last week killed his mother and two brothers.

August 30, 2016

IS destruction of Iraqi base could hinder Mosul operation

The air base that Iraqi forces hope to use as a staging area to take Mosul back from the Islamic State group was almost completely destroyed by the retreating militants, raising new doubts over whether the long-awaited operation will begin this year.