In yet another gesture of goodwill toward the central government in Bogotá, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Wednesday freed a soldier who had been captured two weeks ago when he was on vacation in the country's southern jungles.
A new report reveals that the U.S. 2016 presidential race was the most talked about topic in the world on Facebook in 2015, while President Barack Obama topped the list of most discussed politicians across the globe.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's president for the last eight years, is making her last official day in office a difficult one for her successor Mauricio Macri.
Donald Trump's proposal of a blanket ban on all Muslims entering the United States received harsh criticism on Wednesday, not just from the presidential hopeful's political rivals, but also from world leaders and GOP heavyweights.
A year after the beginning of the rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, with diplomatic relations between the two countries fully reestablished, Washington and Havana have begun to tackle the contentious issue of compensation for properties confiscated during the Caribbean nation's 1959 revolution.
The millionaire co-founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing brands, Douglas Tompkins, who used his fortune to try to preserve South American ecosystems died Tuesday during a kayak accident in Chile.
The terror group ISIS, which refers to itself as the "Islamic State," has outlined its plans to create a functioning caliphate in a 24-page document that details its planned foreign relations, propaganda operation and structuring of an oil and gas-based economy.
A team of investigators unaffiliated with the Mexican government have released new evidence that contradicts the official story of how 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared last year in Guerrero, Mexico.
The Venezuelan opposition coalition claims to have won at least 112 seats in the country's National Assembly, which would give forces opposing President Nicolás Maduro ample powers to challenge his government.
Revelations that the couple that perpetrated last week's mass shooting in San Bernadino, California took advantage of K-1 finacé visas have prompted President Barack Obama to order the departments of State and Homeland Security to review the program under which such entry permits are issued.
A new airport terminal that extends from the U.S. to Mexico will open for business on Wednesday. A new airport terminal that extends from the U. S. to Mexico will open for business on Wednesday.
Colombian researchers have located the Spanish treasure ship San José, which sank in 1708 with jewels and precious metals that today could be worth as much as $14 billion, the South American country's president, Juan Manuel Santos, announced in a statement on Saturday.
A coalition of opposition parties on Sunday triumphed in Venezuela's parliamentary election and won more than twice the number of National Assembly seats as embattled President Nicolás Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
On Friday the Supreme Court agreed to listen to Puerto Rico's request to reinstate a law which might allow the U.S. territory to restructure $20 billion of their massive debt
During Bill Clinton's administration, Rafael Callejas was once an honored guest at the White House. But if U.S. prosecutors have their way, the former Honduran president may soon find himself in an American jail cell because of his suspected links to the FIFA corruption scandal.
