South America

Football mourns Brazilian players killed in air crash, lack of fuel suspected

  by Rodrigo Almonacid Agence France Presse LA UNION, Colombia (AFP) -- A plane that crashed in the mountains of…

Plane carrying Brazilian football players crashes in Colombia

  by Rodrigo Almonacid BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) -- A charter plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed in the mountains…

Presidents attending, skipping Castro’s funeral rites

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- African and Latin American heads of state will attend funeral rites for Cuba's communist icon Fidel…

Cubans begin emotional farewell to Fidel Castro

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) - by Laurent THOMET Massive crowds of Cubans streamed onto Havana's iconic Revolution Square to pay tribute…

Bakersfield — a California town firmly in Trumpland

by Veronique DUPONT Bakersfield, United States (AFP)- Though just a few hours by road from California's progressive bastions of Los Angeles…

Thousands demonstrate against Brazil’s Temer and bill to limit public spending

  SAO PAOLO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Thousands took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday (November 27) to protest…

El Salvador, Nicaragua lift tsunami alert after offshore quake

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) -- El Salvador and Nicaragua on Thursday lifted a tsunami alert they had briefly declared…

7.0 quake shakes El Salvador, Nicaragua: officials

SAN SALVADOR, EL Salvador (AFP) -- A Pacific Ocean earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude shook El Salvador and Nicaragua on…

China signs new trade deals with Peru

LIMA, Peru (AFP) -- China's President Xi Jinping signed new trade deals on Monday with Peru, one of its partners…

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

Relatives of MH370 passengers will travel to Madagascar next month in hopes of re-kindling efforts to find and recover seaborne…

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