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Cuba\'s Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, is defending the human rights record of the communist island.

The World Bank said Latin America should not prioritise tackling climate change, amid the global financial crisis that\'s restricting government resources.

The United Nations General Assembly will today consider a declaration urging the decriminalisation of homosexuality worldwide.

Former Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert has quit the United Bermuda Party (UBP) and will sit as an independent in the House of Assembly.

The authorities in India have released the names and aliases of the nine suspected militants killed during last month\'s attacks in the city of Mumbai.

Pakistani authorities have arrested leading militants following the Mumbai attacks but say they will not hand them over to India.

The White House has given a relaxed initial reaction to a plan by Democrats in Congress for a $15 billion bailout of three big US car firms.

Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters across Greece for a third day, after the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old by police on Saturday.

Opposition parties in Venezuela have issued a formal rejection of the plan by President Hugo Chavez to seek to stay in office as long as he keeps winning elections.

Thousands of protesters have attacked banks and shops in Athens and Greece\'s northern city of Thessaloniki, angered by the police\'s killing of a teenager.

Former United States football star OJ Simpson has been jailed for 15 years for the kidnap and armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel.

The bodies of 13 people have been found on a dirt road in Mexico\'s Sinaloa state, which is home to one of the country\'s most violent drug cartels.