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CARACAS (AP): A diplomat from the Costa Rican Embassy was freed by his captors after a kidnapping ordeal that lasted more than a day, authorities said yesterday.Guillermo Cholele, the trade attache for the Costa Rican Embassy, is in good health, Justice...

WARSAW (AP):Protesters have set fire to an effigy of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, claiming the 2010 plane crash in Russia in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died was an...

BUENOS AIRES (AP):Officials say a bus on a route from Bolivia has run off a road into a canyon in northern Argentina, killing at least 10 people.

TENOSIQUE (AP) :Dozens of Central American migrants staged a mock crucifixion of one of their colleagues Friday to illustrate the dangers and suffering they face in southern Mexico.

JERUSALEM (AP):Israel on yesterday declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that deeply criticised the Jewish state and suggested it was as much a danger as Iran.

Five former New Orleans police officers who shot six unarmed civilians, killing two, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have been jailed.

MEXICO CITY (AP):A Mexican official says his country has extradited Sinaloa cartel drug suspect Jesus 'The King' Zambada to face charges in the United States...

TOKYO (AP):A powerful storm with typhoon-strength winds and heavy rain halted air and train traffic in Tokyo and killed four people around the country, officials said.The spring storm left the region yesterday...

ORANJESTAD (AP):The Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard says it has rescued two men who were on-board a small plane that crashed into the Caribbean Sea near the island of Aruba.A coast guard spokeswoman says the Beechcraft had taken off from Fort Lauderdale,...

MONROVIA (AP)An anti-gay group in Liberia distributed flyers over the weekend with a hit list of people who support gay rights, and one member of the group threatened to "get to them one by one."The flyers mark the latest development in an increasingly...

KABUL (AP): Militants have stepped up their attacks against Afghan police, killing nine and abducting 11 across the nation in the past two days, authorities said yesterday, charging that poison was involved in one incident.

PESHAWAR (AP)Police say 14 people have been killed in northern Pakistan in attacks linked to tensions between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims there.