Honduras, Iran and immigration issues are likely to feature in discussions as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins a tour of Latin America today.
MEXICO CITY (AP): A first-ever study targeting the exorbitant wealth of Mexico's drug lords shows more than half the money smuggled out of the United States each year is cash that never passes through a bank...
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States capital always draws its share of protesters, picketing for causes ranging from health care reform to immigration policy.But spelling bee protesters? They are out here, too.
Oil Company British Petroleum says it will pay for the construction of six sand barriers off the coast of the US state of Louisiana to try to protect fragile wetlands from a huge oil slick.
The mayor of the Mexican resort city of Cancun, Gregorio Sanchez Martinez, has been formally charged with drug-trafficking, money laundering and organised crime.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): A hurricane season predicted to be one of the wettest on record opens today in the Caribbean, where hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake victims have only tarps or fraying tents to protect them in a major storm...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United Nations Security Council yesterday held an emergency meeting on Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip...
PARIS (AP): Hundreds of people in Paris clashed with police yesterday near the Israeli Embassy after blocking traffic to protest a deadly commando raid on ships carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza...
Officials in Mexico say between 20 and 25 bodies, thought to be the victims of drug gang violence, have been found in an abandoned silver mine in the southern part of the country.
US President Barack Obama is to visit the Louisiana coast today to view first-hand the damage wrought by what is said to be the largest oil spill in US history.
