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GUAYAQUIL (AP): The unprecedented violence shaking Ecuador claimed the life of another political leader on Monday, bringing the number of politics-related slayings within the last four weeks to three, including that of a presidential candidate. The...

SAN CRISTOBAL (AP): The death toll from a powerful explosion near the Dominican Republic’s capital rose Tuesday to 10 with dozens injured, as firefighters searched through smouldering rubble and people cried outside hospitals looking for missing...

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP): Hawaii’s governor warned that scores more people could be found dead following the Maui wildfires, as search crews go street by street through neighbourhoods where the flames galloped as fast as a mile a minute across the...

HAVANA (CMC): The Government of Cuba has announced that banks will again accept cash deposits in US dollars following the lifting of a ban prohibiting the practice. Cubans had been unable to deposit dollars in cash into their accounts at banks...

LAHAINA (AP): Richy Palalay so closely identifies with his Maui home town that he had a tattoo artist permanently ink 'Lahaina Grown' on his forearms when he was 16. But a chronic housing shortage and an influx of second-home buyers and wealthy...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Seven former prime ministers say they are “deeply disturbed by the continued deterioration of the general situation” in the French-speaking CARICOM country and are calling for “a spirit of openness for a constructive...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP): Ecuador will hold six Colombian men for at least a month as the country probes their involvement in the slaying of a presidential candidate whose life’s work was fighting crime and corruption, the national prosecutor’s office...