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A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appears to be crumbling as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition.
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At least three people have been killed and hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. The jailbreak marks a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of violence and comes as gangs assert greater control on the capital.
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A panel of U.N.-backed human rights experts has accused Nicaragua’s government of committing “serious systematic human rights violations, tantamount to crimes against humanity.”
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Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister says a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency.”
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Among the various suspects accused in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moisel is one unexpected name: former first lady Martine Moïse, who was seriously injured in the attack.
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Rio de Janeiro city authorities have declared a public health emergency in the city because of an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever.
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High-level officials from 11 nations in the Americas gathered in Miami to help address global challenges, such as natural disaster response and security threats, through space cooperation.
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A prosecutor in Ecuador who was investigating an attack on the set of a public television channel by a group of armed men last week has been slain.
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Attorney General Anil Nandlall tells The Associated Press that Guyana’s government has reassured neighboring Venezuela there is no plan for the U.S. to establish a military base in the South American country.
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U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former Venezuelan army general who pleaded guilty in New York on terrorism charges.
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A right-wing Brazilian politician’s push to have the city of Sao Paulo investigate a city priest has prompted a strong defense from Roman Catholic leaders and government officials.
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Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. And now President Nicolás Maduro is appealing to Venezuelans' patriotism in summoning voters supposedly to decide the territory’s future in a Dec. 3 referendum.