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  • Brazilian judge awards $1M in Air France suit AP - Fri Mar 12, 6:07 PM ET

    SAO PAULO - A Brazilian judge has ordered Air France to pay the equivalent of more than $1 million in damages to the family of one of the victims of last year's crash that killed more than 200 people, officials said Friday.

  • Former US President Bill Clinton (R) and former US President George W. Bush (L) speak about relief efforts following the earthquake in Haiti, during a statement at the White House on January 16. Clinton and Bush are to visit Haiti next week in support of relief efforts in the quake-stricken Caribbean country.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)
    Ex-presidents George W. Bush, Clinton to visit Haiti AFP - Thu Mar 18, 10:30 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are to visit Haiti next week in support of relief efforts in the quake-stricken Caribbean country.

  • A Mexican soldier patrols the scene where three US Consulate staffers were killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 13. US ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual said Wednesday that Mexico's clampdown on drug traffickers could provoke more violence in the short term.(AFP/File/Jesus Alcazar)
    Slain consular staff not targeted for Mexico work: US AFP - Wed Mar 17, 3:34 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Wednesday it had no information that hit teams linked to drug gangs gunned down US consular staff because of their work at a US consulate in northern Mexico.

  • Gastroenteritis strikes cruise ship in Brazil AP - Fri Mar 12, 11:16 AM ET

    SAO PAULO - Nearly 50 passengers aboard an international cruise ship docked in Brazil have been stricken with vomiting and diarrhea, a health official said Friday. It was the same ship that last week was briefly placed under quarantine after hundreds of people came down with gastroenteritis.

  • Bill Clinton, George W. Bush to visit quake-devastated Haiti Reuters - Thu Mar 18, 9:25 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will visit Haiti on Monday to discuss the impoverished country's long-term recovery after a January earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of people.

  • Pedestrians walk outside Wachovia corporate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Chris Keane
    Wachovia pays $160 million to settle drug money probe Reuters - Wed Mar 17, 3:21 PM ET

    MIAMI (Reuters) - The Wachovia Bank unit of Wells Fargo & Co has agreed to pay $160 million to settle U.S. allegations that it laundered Mexican drug money.

  • In this picture taken Thursday, March 11, 2010, District Attorney Alejandro Moscoso exits a room where a wanted poster hangs for convicted murderer and suspected drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto, left, and his lover Sobeida Felix Morel in Santo Domingo. Figueroa Agosto, a US citizen with more than a decade on the run, is the most wanted man in a country known for moving South American cocaine to the US. Morel is the country's second-most wanted fugitive who was detained on money-laundering charges in 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
    DomRep expands 10-year manhunt for US drug kingpin AP - Wed Mar 17, 2:47 PM ET

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The Dominican Republic's most wanted man is an American who for 10 years has fed his mystique by pulling off narrow escapes and taunting police.

  • Oil giant BP has said it will pay US firm Devon Energy $7 billion (£4.7 billion)for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)
    BP wins foothold in Brazil with £4.7 bln deal AFP - Thu Mar 11, 6:43 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Oil giant BP said Thursday it will pay US firm Devon Energy $7 billion (£4.7 billion) for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico.

  • FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2007, file photo, the Freedom Schooner Amistad, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a 19th century slave revolt, flies Sierra Leonean and American flags as it sails into port in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, the original West African homeland of many of the Amistad captives. In March 2010, the stately black scooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana's protected harbor, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights — the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby. It's a replica of the Cuban slave ship that sailed from Havana in 1839 with a cargo of African captives only to become an icon of the abolitionist movement. (AP Photo/Nazia Parvez, File)
    A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba AP - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags — those of the United States and Cuba.

  • Juarez residents to Mexico President Calderón: Enough is enough The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Mar 17, 9:13 AM ET

    Mexico City - When Mexican President Felipe Calderón walked into a meeting in Ciudad Juarez, just days after an American couple was killed in a drive-by shooting, local media zoomed to the protesters amassing outside.

  • Mexico announces austerity plan to save $3 billion AP - Wed Mar 17, 12:42 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government has announced an austerity plan for trimming general spending $3.2 billion (40.1 billion pesos) over the next three years so it can provide more money for social and infrastructure programs.

  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Lula da Silva warned that U.S.-proposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
    Brazil leader rapped for stance on Cuba dissidents AP - Wed Mar 10, 8:36 PM ET

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's president came under withering criticism Wednesday at home and in Cuba for his deference to the island's communist government over political prisoners and hunger strikes for human rights.

  • Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo listens as a court authorizes his extradition to the United States where he faces money laundering charges.(AFP/Johan Ordonez)
    Guatemala court okays ex-president's extradition to US AFP - Thu Mar 18, 2:41 AM ET

    GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) - A Guatemalan criminal court authorized the extradition of ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States, where he faces money laundering charges.

  • Peru president fires justice minister amid scandal AP - Tue Mar 16, 10:06 PM ET

    LIMA, Peru - President Alan Garcia fired Peru's justice minister Tuesday amid questions over the pardoning of a former media executive convicted of taking payoffs to provide favorable coverage for a previous government.

  • Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim (R), chats with his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle, during a meeting at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Brazil and Germany differed sharply Wednesday on whether to threaten Iran with fresh United Nations sanctions in a bid to rein in its disputed nuclear program.(AFP/Adriano Machado)
    Brazil, Germany clash on Iran nuclear sanctions AFP - Wed Mar 10, 3:25 PM ET

    BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil and Germany differed sharply Wednesday on whether to threaten Iran with fresh United Nations sanctions in a bid to rein in its disputed nuclear program.

  • Demonstrators clash with police during a protests against the visit of Mexican President Felipe Calderon to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State. Calderon called for shared US responsibility in the fight against Mexico's drug gangs, after US consulate-linked killings in Ciudad Juarez.(AFP/Jesus Alcazar)
    Mexico calls on US to share drug war responsibility AFP - Tue Mar 16, 11:26 PM ET

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) - President Felipe Calderon called for shared US responsibility in the fight against Mexico's drug gangs, after US consulate-linked killings in Ciudad Juarez.

  • 2 police killed by motorcycle gunmen in Haiti AP - Tue Mar 16, 9:55 PM ET

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian police say two off-duty officers have been shot to death near an open-air market in the capital.

  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pictured in February 2010, called Wednesday on President Barack Obama to put his weight behind a quick resolution to a US-Brazilian trade dispute.(AFP/File/Jose Cabezas)
    Lula calls on Obama to resolve trade dispute AFP - Wed Mar 10, 1:39 PM ET

    BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called Wednesday on President Barack Obama to put his weight behind a quick resolution to a US-Brazilian trade dispute.

  • A girl walks through the mud-clogged streets of a tent city in Port-au-Prince. Speaking about a high-profile case in which US missionaries attempted to take children from Haiti recently, the national director of charity SOS Children's Villages, Celigny Darius, said "It is essential that relief efforts focus on preventing separation by ensuring that families have access to basic necessities."(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)
    All Haiti 'orphan' children reunited with parents AFP - Wed Mar 17, 9:48 PM ET

    PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - The 33 Haitian children at the center of a US abduction row have finally been reunited with their families, but the fact that not one of them turned out to be an orphan raised fresh concern.

  • No bail for man accused of smuggling drugs into US AP - Tue Mar 16, 8:49 PM ET

    DENVER - A federal judge in Denver ruled that a suspected Mexican drug lord accused of helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States should be held without bail until his case is resolved.

  • In this photo taken March 14, 2010, women wait to receive medical attention for them and their children outside the women's clinic run by the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Operation, at the makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince. Women, girls and children as young as 2 years old, already traumatized by the loss of homes and loved ones in Haiti's earthquake, now are falling victim to rapists in sprawling and unmanageable tent cities that have become home to hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
    Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath AP - Tue Mar 16, 8:43 PM ET

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.

  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvia, second right, talks to young athletes during the opening ceremony of a sports complex at the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by Brazil's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, second left, Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
    Brazil's Silva: A Rousseff win would KO machismo AP - Wed Mar 10, 4:24 AM ET

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's president said his hand-picked candidate to succeed him in October's election would help do away with machismo by becoming the first female president of Latin America's largest and most influential nation.

  • U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence Reuters - Tue Mar 16, 7:39 PM ET

    PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the project pending review, authorities said on Tuesday.

  • Members of 'Ladies in White,' who are relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents, gather for a meeting where a photograph of late Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo hangs on the wall in Havana, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Zapata, who was jailed since 2003 on charges including disrespecting authority, died March 23, 2010. Amnesty international appealed to Cuban President Raul Castro to release political prisoners and scrap laws that restrict fundamental freedoms, using the seventh anniversary of a major crackdown on dissent to call for change. The words on the wall read in Spanish 'Long live human rights,' left, and 'Long live Zapata.' (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
    Amnesty calls for more freedom in Cuba AP - Tue Mar 16, 8:34 PM ET

    HAVANA - The human rights group Amnesty international appealed to Cuban President Raul Castro to release political prisoners and scrap laws that restrict fundamental freedoms, using the seventh anniversary of a major crackdown on dissent to call for change.

  • US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke (C) leaves the Brazilian Trade Ministry after meeting with the Brazilian Trade Minister Miguel Jorge, in Brasilia. Locke said Tuesday that Washington was seeking talks with Brazil before it imposes retaliatory trade tariffs for US cotton subsidies the WTO ruled as discriminatory.(AFP/Adriano Machado)
    US seeks talks to avert trade war with Brazil AFP - Tue Mar 9, 7:23 PM ET

    BRASILIA (AFP) - Visiting US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Tuesday that Washington was seeking talks with Brazil before it imposes retaliatory trade tariffs for US cotton subsidies the WTO ruled as discriminatory.

  • REFILE - CORRECTING SPELLING Soldiers stand guard in military vehicles as a pile of marijuana and other drugs are incinerated at the 20th Cavalry Regiment military base in Ciudad Juarez March 18, 2010. More than two tons of narcotics, including marijuana, heroin and cocaine, were incinerated as part of the Chihuahua joint operation, in which the federal government sent thousands of soldiers to curb drug violence in Mexico's bloodiest city on the U.S. border. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY SOCIETY)
    Homeland chief puts brakes on virtual fence funds AP - Tue Mar 16, 6:51 PM ET

    PHOENIX - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she will freeze funds for expanding the virtual fence that originally was supposed to monitor most of the 2,000-mile southern U.S. border by 2011 but now covers only a portion of Arizona's boundary with Mexico.

  • Report: Equipment at PR veterans clinics not clean AP - Tue Mar 16, 8:07 PM ET

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Federal inspectors found medical equipment not properly cleaned or inspected at some of the clinics for veterans in Puerto Rico, a U.S. government report said Tuesday.

  • Obama criticized for Mexico, Brazil sanctions Reuters - Tue Mar 9, 5:30 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans and business groups on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's administration for failing to resolve a cross-border trucking dispute nearly one year after Mexico slapped retaliatory duties on about $2.4 billion worth of U.S. exports.

  • REFILE - CORRECTING SPELLING A soldier stands guard in a road at the 20th Cavalry Regiment military base in Ciudad Juarez March 18, 2010. More than two ton of narcotics, including marijuana, heroin and cocaine, were incinerated as part of the Chihuahua joint operation, in which the federal government sent thousands of soldiers to curb drug violence in Mexico's bloodiest city on the U.S. border. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY SOCIETY)
    Protests greet Mexico's Calderon after U.S. killings Reuters - Tue Mar 16, 6:13 PM ET

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Crowds of protesters slammed President Felipe Calderon's military crackdown on drug cartels as he flew to Mexico's most violent city on Tuesday, three days after gunmen killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate.

  • UN assessor: Haiti needs $11.5 billion to rebuild AP - Tue Mar 16, 7:15 PM ET

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The U.N. regional assessor for natural disasters says Haiti needs $11.5 billion over three years to rebuild and transform the hemisphere's poorest nation after its catastrophic earthquake.

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