Euro-zone countries appear far from compromise
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New measures to stop the crisis are likely only if things get a lot worse, analysts say.
Mexico’s ruling crime cartels escalate brutality in all-out war
The Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas are staging public massacres in order to terrify and intimidate, officials say.
Probe opens into Honduras drug bust
Allegedly deadly firefight triggered protests and demands that U.S. anti-drug agents leave the area.
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate is handsome, popular and a mystery
A victory by Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico’s presidential election would put the country back in the hands of the party that governed for 71 years.
49 torsos found along Mexican highway
Mexico’s hyper-violent mafias have been seemingly engaged in a gruesome game of one-upmanship in recent weeks.
In Mexico, a celebration of the mother cult
In the annual celebration of Mother’s Day on May 10, all of Mexico stops what it is doing in the afternoon and eats some serious lunch with Mom.
Tomas Borge Martinez, Sandinista movement’s last surviving founder
At 81 he was the last of the guerrillas who overthrew Nicaragua’s U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979.
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Miss Universe Canada pageant competitor Jenna Talackova was initially disqualified.
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- Mexico promises to protect Huichol Indian lands where Canadian firm had silver-mine concession
- Gunman fails in attack on Colombian union leader, but kills brother and wounds 2 more
- Venezuelan government prohibits possession of guns in public places, aiming to counter crime
- Hurricane Bud roars toward Mexico's Pacific coast, prompting emergency preparations
- Venezuela boosts security by sending more troops to border with Colombia after rebel attack
- Mexican gang opens fire, sets off car bomb in attack on state police quarters near US border
- Venezuela's technology minister says much undersea fiber-optic cable to Cuba is operational
- Gunman fails in attack on Colombian union leader, but kills brother and wounds 2 more
Elsewhere in World
Asia / Pacific
- Adoring crowds celebrate Thai king as he makes 1st trip outside Bangkok in almost 3 years
- French president reaffirms troop pullout, says 'time for Afghan sovereignty has come'
- Cambodia sentences 13 land activists to prison for 2 1/2 years each, stirring outrage
- Beijing says US criticism of its human rights situation is wrong and biased
Africa
- Minority teen killed by South Sudan army; military vows to continue disarmament campaign
- Kenyan rights officials accuse police for the forced disappearances of third terror suspect
- Giant new telescope to be built in South Africa and Australia
- African Union, Somali forces capture militant-held town on outskirts of Mogadishu
National Security
- Timeline of raid in Somalia
- Senate panel wraps up $631 billion defense bill for next year, meets Obama budget request
- Lawmakers criticize Pentagon, contractor for billion-dollar billing dispute over food services
- House panel demands answers for alleged overbilling in Afghanistan
- Little progress in Iran nuclear talks
