Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López has gained 9 pounds since he ended a 30-day hunger strike a week ago, his wife, Lilian Tintori, said on Wednesday as she appeared with former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González, who has lobbied for López's release.
While making his first visit as Pontiff to Latin America, Pope Francis will stop in the small, poverty stricken counties of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said that she isn't surprised that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a presidential candidate running for the Democratic nomination, is surging in the polls.
When tensions flared up between Venezuela and Colombia in 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised the late leader Hugo Chávez his support in case the South American neighbors went to war, according to a new book.
Cuba is being celebrated for their latest groundbreaking advancement in health and science. According to the World Health Organization, Cuba is the first nation in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
A third company has announced that it is cutting ties with 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump following his recent anti-immigration comments about Mexican immigrants.
In Liberia, a west African country that declared itself free of Ebola seven weeks ago, a 17-year-old male in the city of Nidonwin was found dead from the virus.
Hours before Greece was supposed to repay € 1.6 billion to the International Monetary Fund, the southeastern European country has asked for a new bailout deal from the eurozone, requesting a two-year € 29.1 billion aid deal from a bailout mechanism set up for eurozone nations.
ISIS terrorists have beheaded two women and a man whom they accused of "sorcery," Reuters said based on reports by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The incident marks the first time the terror group, which controls large swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq, has decapitated female civilians.
Iran has made it to an all important meeting in Vienna, with representatives of world powers, where it will discuss plans for its current nuclear program.
Investigators on the case say that Mexico has yet to respond to a request to interview soldiers over the disappearance of the students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College a full three months after the request was made.
According to a new study published by Instituto Cervantes there are 41 million native Spanish speakers in the US, as well as a 11.6 million who are bilingual.
A Chinese company is inching closer to building a 170-mile canal across Nicaragua, from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea - a massive project that raises all kinds of practical, environmental and geopolitical questions.
Pope Francis has allegedly asked to participate in the traditional chewing of coca leaves, which have been for thousands of years been used in the Andes as a mild, medicinal stimulant, and since the late Victorian era as the raw source for cocaine.
