Fearing the spread of the Ebola virus, Nicaraguan authorities have asked for a U.S. embassy worker believed to be infected to leave the country. The embassy denies the man is infected but he has been quarantined.
Dead fish have been washing onto the banks of a Rio de Janeiro Rodrigo de Freitas lake that will be used for rowing competitions in the 2016 Summer Olympic games.
Three Blackwater contractors have been sentenced to 30 years in prison while a fourth has been sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the Nisur Massacre of 2007 in which unarmed Iraqi civilians were killed.
The law grants same-sex couples and heterosexual couples the same rights and benefits available through civil marriage and will go into effect later this year.
Eduardo Montealegre,The Attorney General of Colombia, has announced that he is investigating 22 generals for their possible ties in the murder of civilians in a notorious scandal involving "false positives."
Cesar Gastelum Serrano, a man authorities have described as being a leading cocaine trafficker for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on Saturday in the resort city of Cancun
The German author of "Die Blechtrommel ("The Tin Drum") and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Günter Grass, has died at the age of 87 at a hospital in Lubeck, Germany following an infection he received only a few days earlier.
A new ISIS, or Daesh, video released over the weekend documents the leveling of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. It had been reported the group had destroyed the city but the video shows the extent of the destruction.
Pope Francis on Sunday called the 1915 killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a "genocide," upsetting Turkey, which has long sought to downplay the massacre, The leader of the world's more than 1 billion Catholics minced no words when he celebrated a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica.
During his eighth trip to Latin America, President Barack Obama met with Cuba President Raul Castro for a brief, yet historic, one-on-one meeting. Obama met with Castro during the annual Summit of the Americas in Panama, and discussions about promoting greater opportunity for the Cuban population was discussed.
A recent poll has revealed that 63 percent of Brazilians support opening impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, while 33 percent are opposed to them.
A man named Miguel Angel Landa Bahena has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students student teachers that took place last year in southern Mexico.
President Barack Obama has met with the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro President Barack Obama met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during the Summit of Americas on Saturday.
Rear Adm. Fernandez Ponds has been selected to run Guantanamo Bay. The U. S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay has a new commander. Rear Adm. Fernandez Ponds has been selected to run the detention center.
Speaking for the first time at the Summit of the Americas, an event which was first initiated in 1994, the Cuban leader Raul Castro described U.S. President Obama as an “honest man.”
The president and chairman of Canada-based mining company, revealed in a television interview on Thursday that his company has a "good relationship" with drug traffickers in the area.
On Friday the U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon praised U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro for striving to restore diplomatic relations between the two nations.
