The president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has demanded an investigation into the LAPD's involvement in holding a meeting between a group of business leaders, local police chiefs and an infamous former Mexican Mafia boss. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck admitted late Thursday that "mistakes were made in holding" the meeting in downtown LA earlier this week.
The much anticipated IndyCar Series opener that was scheduled for March in the Brazilian capital city of Brasília has been canceled. Brazilian public prosecutors have judged the race would end up costing the local government too much and have decided to pull the plug on the heavily promoted event.
Chile is one step closer to achieving equality for its gay and lesbian citizens. The South American country's legislature has passed a civil union bill that is to be signed by the president; however, the country still does not have marriage equality.
Senior Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died under suspect circumstances on Jan. 18, was allegedly forced to borrow a gun from a colleague because he did not trust the police that were charged with protecting him.
Cuba President Raul Castro Wednesday addressed Latin American leaders and revealed relations with the U.S. have not normalized despite developments to renew diplomatic relations.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un could be visiting Russia this year, according to South Korean media and the Kremlin. It remains uncertain, however, whether Jong-Un will visit himself or will send another dignitary for Russia's celebrations of the end of the Second World War.
The Malaysian government has officially declared the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 an accidents. No trace of the Beijing-bound airplane has been found despite an intense search in the southern Indian Ocean since its disappearance.
Mexico is not planning to extradite captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States because he will have to serve out jail time in his country first, Reuters reported.
A U.N. peacekeeper from Spain was killed Wednesday, along with two Israeli soldiers in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel that took place in southern Lebanon.
The Libyan branch of ISIS on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the attack on a Tripoli luxury hotel that had killed 10 people on Tuesday. The group called itself the "Islamic State in Tripoli Province," in reference to the "Islamic State" moniker used by ISIS, the terror organization that controls large swaths of land in Syria in Iraq.
Violence flared up at the Israeli-Lebanese border on Wednesday after a Hezbollah missile attack killed two soldiers, the. The Lebanese militants apparently launched the devices in retaliation for a deadly airstrike attributed to Israel, which had claimed the lives of six of their fighters in the occupied Golan Heights earlier this month.
A week after the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a man who was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Jewish groups in Argentina have decided to boycott the government's Holocaust commemorations.
Mexico's attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam has stated he can now prove the fate of the 43 missing students who disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero last September.
Fidel Castro has been absent from the public eye since Cuba and the U.S. began repairing their relations. Now, he is finally giving some comments on the recent developments.
