March 2, 2016 Iraq signs deal to repair and maintain its key Mosul dam Iraq has signed a deal with an Italian company to repair and maintain the country's largest dam near the northern, Islamic State-held city of Mosul.
March 2, 2016 Puerto Rico police seize $2M worth of drugs, arrest teacher Police in Puerto Rico say they have arrested a special education teacher and her husband after raiding the couple's upscale home and seizing $2.4 million worth of cocaine.
March 2, 2016 Senior Facebook exec arrested in Brazil after blocking authorities' access to private data Brazilian authorities arrested a senior Facebook executive in Sao Paul Tuesday in the latest clash between the social media giant and the government over the company’s refusal to provide private information about its users to law enforcement.
March 2, 2016 Fujimori legacy blessing and curse for candidate daughter The front-runner in Peru's presidential race danced through the streets of this Andean town that her father, former hardline President Alberto Fujimori, wrested from Shining Path rebels in a bloody conflict two decades ago.
March 2, 2016 US asks UN Security Council to set North Korea vote Tuesday The United States has asked the U.N.
March 2, 2016 Argentine president: nation in bad shape but change coming Argentine President Mauricio Macri painted a grim picture of the nation on Tuesday, telling Congress that the state is broke, drug traffickers are prospering and institutions including the armed forces are so weakened that the borders are barely protected and many military planes cannot fly.
March 1, 2016 Branch by branch, a look at N. Korea's massive military With tensions high and the United States and South Korea ready to hold their massive annual wargames next week, which North Korea sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion, Pyongyang is warning it will respond to any violations of its territory with "merciless" retaliation, including strikes on Seoul and the U.S. mainland.
March 1, 2016 Venezuela's high court bans congress from removing justices Venezuela's Supreme Court on Tuesday banned the congress from investigating the government's rushed appointment of 13 high court justices last year.