People living in Guzmán’s hometown of Badiraguato are used to speaking about the drug lord’s kindness. "El Chapo" enjoys a kind of reputation for largesse in the poverty stricken community.
Sunday is the 62nd anniversary of the first offensive Fidel Castro's guerrillas made against Cuba’s then dictator Fulgencio Batista. The 1953 rebellion brought down Batista and altered the ideological aims of the island nation a mere five years later.
Turkey has attacked Islamic State targets in Syria, joining the fight against the Islamic extremist group. The Turkish Air Force released a video taken from the attacking F-16s.
North Korea has built a 220-foot launch tower at its missile base. The new tower is capable of launching a longer-range missile than the rocket test-fired back in 2012.
The unnerving image of what are being dubbed “mutant daisies” has gone viral and could show the aftermath of the nuclear disaster that befell the area four years ago.
In 1986, Rodrigo Rojas, a 19-year-old politically engaged student and photographer, was burned alive during a Santiago street demonstration directed at General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Decades later the men culpable for his death are being brought to justice.
A United Nations office in Guatemala on Tuesday decried that a major river, Rio La Pasión, in the Central American country has been heavily contaminated with pesticides.
Despite the surge of violence that continues to rattle El Salvador, the country's National Civil Police (PNC) "will not negotiate nor hold talks with gangs," the force's deputy chief said on Monday.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) criticized Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley over his comments linking the Islamic State militant group and climate change, but his campaign was quick to fire back.
British prosecutors have charged a 24-year-old man named Junead Ahmed Khan, along with his 22-year old uncle, Shazib Ahmed Khan, with trying to join the ISIS terrorist organization.
In a drastic move aimed at tackling chronic shortages, the Venezuelan government has ordered companies to distribute food staples to a network of state-run grocery stores, the Associated Press said, based on reports by a local food industry group.
In an effort to draw attention to the issue of domestic violence that plagues their country, dozens of women have come to Mexico's Interior Ministry to protest.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously endorsed the Iran nuclear agreement on Monday. The United Nations Security Council unanimously endorsed the Iran nuclear agreement on Monday.
Russia has its first front-line robot that is capable of shooting targets and guarding important sites. Called the Platform-M, the combat robot has interchangeable sections, making it a versatile tool.
Dozens of children captured by ISIS have been forced to "practice" beheadings on dolls, a boy who fled a training camp run by the Islamist terror group told the Associated Press.