A former FIFA vice president from Trinidad and Tobago - one of the 14 high-ranking officials of the international soccer body whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of bribery and racketeering - has promised to prove a link between FIFA and attempted fraud in his nation's 2010 elections.
Authorities in El Salvador counted 635 homicides in May, making the month the single deadliest since the end of the Central American nation's civil war in 1992.
A group of senators have introduced a bill to slow down the reopening of Cuba as the federal government inches closer to reestablishing ties. The senators, among them two presidential hopefuls, aim to restrict the flow of U.S. money into Cuba as restrictions become more lax.
In an effort to deter violence directed at females, lawmakers in Colombia have this week passed a bill that would impose tough sentences for hate crimes against women.
The pregnant teenager's death has inspired protests against femicide in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and other Latin American regions. Thousands of people have marched to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires condemning violence against women.
The circulating rumors on the death of Queen Elizabeth are all false as she is healthy and alive. The Queen Elizabeth death rumor, which started when a BBC reporter tweeted about it recently, was just a hoax.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., still has concerns about the Obama administration normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba, and wrote a letter to the U.S. State Department on prioritizing specific topics when having talks with the island.
The U.S. territory Puerto Rico, which has been in and out of recession since 2006 and is currently saddled with $72 billion in public debt, is preparing to overhaul public power company Electric Energy Authority.
The United States treasury department has released a statement on Monday in which they have officially designated the Peruvian Maoist rebel group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) as a "significant foreign narcotics trafficker."
Miguel Angel Luna, a Mexican congressional candidate and former mayor of Valle de Chalcowas, has become the eighth politician to be murdered before the upcoming midterm elections which, take place this Sunday.
Russia doctored two satellite images so it could blame Ukraine in the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, a Boeing 777 that was downed by a missile in July 2014, according to a report by the Bellingcat investigative team.
Two individuals in South Korea have died from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, the country's health authorities confirmed on Tuesday. The cases marked only the second time the virus has caused fatalities in Asia since a man succumbed to it in Malaysia in April 2014.
A cruise ship called the Eastern Star, which was carrying 458 people, has capsized on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. The ship went down late Monday night
On Monday Nicaraguan officials stated an environmental study has determined that a planned $50 billion canal set to cross their nation is "viable." The officials declined to offer any accompanying details regarding the report.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday in Venezuela to demand the release of political prisoners and voice their discontent with the socialist administration of embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
Australia's main opposition party on Monday proposed to legalize same-sex marriage, making Labor leader Bill Shorten the first head of a major political force in the country to back a bill to overturn a national ban on such unions.
Thanks in large part to Sen. Rand Paul, at midnight on Sunday, the U.S. Senate let the Patriot Act expire, removing key controversial surveillance authorities from the National Security Agency. So what does that mean, and what's next?
On Wednesday's the U.S. Justice Department said that the 10 presidents of the South American Football Confederation were to receive bribes from a company called Datisa in exchange for transmission rights to games of the Copa America, the tournament of the continent's national teams.
