Colombia showed video Friday of an orderly mission that ended in hugs and laughter for 15 hostages who were rescued from a Colombian guerilla group this week.
They were chained by their necks as punishment -- sometimes to a tree or post -- other times to each other.
The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged the children she hadn't seen for six years Thursday, and marveled at how they'd grown.
Government agents posing as rebels tricked a gang of armed desperados into handing over 15 hostages during a rendezvous deep in Colombia's unforgiving jungle.
The three Americans rescued Wednesday after more than five years in captivity in the jungles of Colombia appear to be in good health, doctors said Thursday.
Venezuela is denying Washington's accusations that drug trafficking has increased due to a lack of cooperation with the United States.
Secret agents posing as leftist rebels hoodwinked insurgents and freed 15 hostages from the jungles of Colombia by pretending an "international mission" was on its way to visit the hostages, authorities in Colombia say.
Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt has described her rescue from leftist rebels as "a miracle" and "a moment of pride" in Colombia.
Colombia showed video Friday of an orderly mission that ended in hugs and laughter for 15 hostages who were rescued from a Colombian guerilla group this week.
They were chained by their necks as punishment -- sometimes to a tree or post -- other times to each other.
The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged the children she hadn't seen for six years Thursday, and marveled at how they'd grown.
Government agents posing as rebels tricked a gang of armed desperados into handing over 15 hostages during a rendezvous deep in Colombia's unforgiving jungle.
The three Americans rescued Wednesday after more than five years in captivity in the jungles of Colombia appear to be in good health, doctors said Thursday.
Venezuela is denying Washington's accusations that drug trafficking has increased due to a lack of cooperation with the United States.
Secret agents posing as leftist rebels hoodwinked insurgents and freed 15 hostages from the jungles of Colombia by pretending an "international mission" was on its way to visit the hostages, authorities in Colombia say.
Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt has described her rescue from leftist rebels as "a miracle" and "a moment of pride" in Colombia.
In a secret operation a U.S. official called "brilliant," the Colombian military infiltrated rebel group FARC and deceived its members into giving up 15 hostages including former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia's defense ministry said.
The relatives of three U.S. government contractors who were rescued in Colombia rejoiced as the men boarded a plane home Wednesday.
Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats of instigating opponents of the communist-run government to hold public protests to mark American Independence Day.
A Venezuelan army general protesting the "socialism or death" motto of President Hugo Chavez has been released from military detention, but he still could be charged with a crime, his attorney said Wednesday.
Videos showing Leon police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture in law enforcement.
An attorney says Venezuela's military has detained a dissident army general who opposes the socialist ideology espoused by President Hugo Chavez.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia said he's fed up with the Bolivian President Evo Morales for allegedly spreading rumors about U.S. military bases in Peru and encouraging a national strike July 9.
A red stream of lava flowed down the flanks of the Llaima volcano in southern Chile on Tuesday, and officials said they evacuated about a dozen people.
Forecasters say a tropical storm in the Pacific is now a hurricane over the ocean far to the west of Mexico.
The trial of former President Alberto Fujimori opened here Monday with his former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, declaring his boss innocent of the charges he faces.
A judge says he has imposed two sentences of life in prison on the security chief for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Peru's once-feared former spymaster testified Monday that ex-President Alberto Fujimori had nothing to do with the death squad killings with which he is charged.
Twelve million honey bees have been released onto Canada's largest highway in northwest New Brunswick after a transport truck overturned.
A helicopter carrying two Guatemalan cabinet ministers crashed Friday in the northern part of the country, killing all four people aboard, a presidential spokesman said.
President Evo Morales says he is "proud" of coca growers in Bolivia's Chapare region for expelling a U.S. government aid agency amid charges it backs his government's opponents.
Cuts in Haitian gasoline subsidies pushed the price of fuel to $6.14 a gallon on Thursday, further burdening an impoverished people, as the government redirected money to other programs.
Two Mexican federal officers involved in the drug fight and one of their bodyguards were shot dead and two others were wounded Thursday as they ate lunch in a restaurant in the capital, federal officials said.
The man who oversaw the police raid on a Mexico City nightclub on Friday during which 12 people were killed was charged with 12 counts of homicide, prosecutors said.
Three men accused last year of a plot to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were headed to the United States late Tuesday after their fight against extradition from Trinidad and Tobago was rejected by an appeals court there, Trinidad and U.S. officials said.
The fight against narcotraffickers is showing good results, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, a day after authorities linked 38 deaths nationwide to the drug war.
The fight against narcotraffickers is showing good results, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, a day after authorities linked 38 deaths nationwide to the drug war.
Paraguay's Senate failed to muster a quorum Tuesday, thereby frustrating President Nicanor Duarte Frutos's bid to resign two months before the end of his term to join that same legislative body.
Colombian authorities said a landslide has killed at least 10 people, including three children.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is probing the death of a man who collapsed after a confrontation in which provincial police officers used a Taser on him.
A new case of mad cow disease was confirmed in Canada, its 13th case since 2003.
Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has released a video of an abducted congressman as proof the politician is alive.
Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte offered Congress his resignation Monday, two months before his term is slated to end.
Police involved in a raid that sparked a fatal stampede at a nightclub in northern Mexico City on Friday have been suspended, and an investigation into the incident is under way, officials said Saturday.
Ten people were fatally trampled Friday night during a raid on a nightclub in northern Mexico City, police said.
Paraguayan officials have put down a prison riot by agreeing to inmates' demands for more sex.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened not to sell oil to European Union countries that follow new rules on immigration, but oil analysts said the threat was largely symbolic since no European country buys oil from Venezuela.
If ethical shopping has a star, it's Danny Seo, the celebrity eco-stylist who champions green consumerism from the pages of Organic Style magazine, where he's editor-at-large, as well as his books and TV appearances.
A man whose teething infant died after apparently sucking on his father's cocaine-tainted fingers has been sentenced to life in prison.
Demonstrators in southern Peru freed 48 police officers Tuesday who had been held hostage for about a day.
President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday defended an increase in export taxes on grains that has riled many farmers, and she called on them to respect the law in protesting her policies.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared Tuesday in a video broadcast on Cuban television, the first scenes of the ailing revolutionary leader released since January.
More than 20 police officers have been hurt and at least 60 are being held hostage amid protests in southern Peru over mining revenue, according to the Peruvian News Agency and other reports.
Thousands of Argentine farmers protesting grain export tax increases returned to road blockades nationwide on Sunday, angry over a police crackdown at a barricade the day before.
A three-month standoff between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes turned violent Saturday.
The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.
The Cuban government has handed over to U.S. authorities a California man facing federal child sex crime charges, Cuba's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Cuba says it has turned over to U.S. authorities an American fugitive sought on charges of sex crimes with a minor.
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa downplayed news that authorities arrested four people in an alleged plot to attack him.
Three heavily armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown São Paulo on Thursday, the city's second high-profile art theft in less than a year.
Mexico and Spain are calling for an easing of sanctions against Cuba in the light of recent reforms by the communist-run island.
Nine survivors of a plane crash in Chile's frigid southern forests said they survived a four-day wait for rescue by huddling close together for warmth, sheltering inside the wreckage and sharing what food they had.
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Mexican growers and their government on Wednesday called a U.S. warning against certain types of their tomatoes unjust, saying it has brought exports to a halt and could cripple Mexico's $900 million industry.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized for a defunct policy that attempted "to kill the Indian in the child" by taking native children from their families and placing them in schools to assimilate them.
The egalitarian wage system Fidel Castro spent decades building in Cuba is no longer viable, plagued by low pay, corruption and waste that can be eased by paying workers more for better work, a top labor official said in an interview published Wednesday.
Canadian diplomats and the military should open talks with the Taliban if they think negotiations can effectively shorten what may otherwise be a "very long" war in Afghanistan, said a Senate report released Wednesday.
Flight attendant Sheela Joshi is 5 feet, 4 inches and 148 pounds.
Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half-ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday Wednesday with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his own two feet to get married.
Argentine farmers are planning their next move after the country's president announced plans to fund a public works program with revenues from a controversial agrarian export tax.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a public apology Wednesday to Canadian Indians who decades ago were taken from their families and forced to attend state-funded Christian schools aimed at stripping them of their aboriginal culture.
Colombia has detained a Venezuelan soldier found with thousands of rounds of ammunition of the kind favored by leftist rebels in Colombia, Venezuelan authorities admitted.
Colombian troops were so close to rebel-held U.S. hostages they could hear them speaking, but lost them before they could be rescued, the defense minister said Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is mocking critics who question his close relationship with Iran by showing off what he jokingly calls an "atomic bicycle."
Leftist rebels in Colombia should release all hostages in their custody as a first step toward laying down their weapons, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday.
Argentina, one of the world's biggest breadbaskets, should be rolling in cash, as world food prices soar.
Mirina Kakalanos has been forced to double prices at her family's shoe store in the last year. Customers turn away after browsing the pumps and sandals, but Kakalanos says she has no choice.
Transmitters will be attached to sharks off the Pacific coast so scientists can monitor their behavior after three surfers were attacked, a Mexican official said.
The military expects a confrontational hearing when the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four alleged confederates are brought before a Marine colonel presiding over their war-crimes tribunal.
Disagreements between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes flared up Wednesday as drivers used their trucks to snarl traffic.
Flash flooding in Belize killed at least four people and left two others missing, victims of twin tropical storms that pummeled the small country over the weekend.
British Columbia's attorney general has ordered a third investigation into the Canadian branch of a polygamous sect -- even though the first two such efforts failed over questions about whether polygamy is illegal in Canada.
A car plowed into a weekend bike race along a highway near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others, police said.
Most U.S. senators acknowledge that climate change poses a major environmental threat, but getting agreement on how to deal with it is another matter.
Forensic teams have exhumed 60 bodies from what is thought to be the largest mass grave from the Peruvian government's bloody war against Maoist insurgents.
People in two Bolivian states celebrated what they viewed as a victory Sunday night in referendums on autonomy from the central government.
Bolivians in two opposition-controlled states voted Sunday on autonomy referendums that aim to insulate a wide swath of the country's eastern flatlands from President Evo Morales' populist reforms.
Tropical Storm Arthur weakened to a tropical depression Sunday after soaking the Yucatan Peninsula but still threatened to cause flooding and mudslides in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.
Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2008 Atlantic season, formed Saturday near the coast of Belize, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Five people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway into an adjoining street, crushing three vehicles and splitting into three sections before resting a few feet from a house, officials said.
Farmers on Friday moved quickly to reject President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's tax concessions made a day earlier.
Tropical Storm Alma lashed the coast of Central America with heavy rains and high winds on Thursday after becoming the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season.
Seven people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway and traveled into an adjoining street, where it crushed three vehicles and cracked into three sections before coming to a halt a few feet from a house, officials said.
Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world.
Tropical Storm Alma has weakened to a depression and swept across Honduras, dumping rain and leaving roofless homes and flooded streets in its wake.
The National Indian Foundation says one of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border.
A helicopter crashed into a building in Panama City on Thursday, killing 11 of the 12 people aboard, including Chile's federal police chief, a Panamanian government official said.
Chile's national police chief and 10 other visiting Chileans were killed Thursday when their aging Panamanian government helicopter crashed into a three-story building in Panama City.
Seven federal police officers were killed Tuesday in northwest Mexico in the latest in a series of drug-related violence, a spokesman for the federal police said.
Flooding in central Colombia has left at least 14 people dead, 100 injured and 100,000 homeless over the past week, officials said Wednesday.
Argentine farm groups went on strike Wednesday for the third time in nearly three months to protest high export taxes.
No one could remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen.
French parachutist Michel Fournier vowed Tuesday to try again to launch a record-breaking skydive in August, hours after a "freak" accident over Canada aborted his second attempt to do so.
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish -- 6,000 tons of them -- threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
Brazil on Monday announced plans to spend at least $5 billion to develop deep water oil finds, building new ships and hiring rigs as soaring world fuel prices boost demand for drilling equipment.
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