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Venezuela asks Interpol to arrest politician over alleged plot 11 Aug 2018 - 01:07 am
Venezuela's Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez (C), offers a press conference on the detention of opposition lawmaker, Juan Requesens, accused of involvement in an apparent attack against President Nicolas Maduro, at the Miraflores presidential palac
Peru's new president spurns opposition proposals on referendum 11 Aug 2018 - 01:07 am
Peru's President Martin Vizcarra greets people as he arrives to the inauguration of a mental hospital in Pucallpa, Peru August 9, 2018. Reuters/Guadalupe Pardo
Two police officers among four fatally shot in Canada 11 Aug 2018 - 12:56 am
A still image taken from video of the scene of a fatal shooting in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 10, 2018. CBC News/Handout via Reuters
Man charged in California wildfire refuses to go to court 11 Aug 2018 - 12:56 am
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Colombia to ask UN for special envoy to manage Venezuelan migrant crisis 11 Aug 2018 - 12:56 am
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California blazes threaten populated areas 11 Aug 2018 - 12:24 am
An elderly woman rests by a fountain in the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), a trade show and amusement park, with temperatures at around 28 degrees Celcius in Moscow on August 10, 2018. AFP / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Manafort jury hears of quick loan, cabinet request: trial update 10 Aug 2018 - 10:39 pm
Paul Manafort
Venezuelan migrants throng Ecuador-Colombia border high up in Andes 10 Aug 2018 - 12:53 am
Venezuelan migrants carry their luggage to cross from Venezuela to Colombia via the Simon Bolivar international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia August 8, 2018. Reuters/Luisa Gonzalez
Chile's Michelle Bachelet to be new UN human rights chief 10 Aug 2018 - 12:45 am
In this file photo taken on January 08, 2018 Chilean President Michelle Bachelet delivers a speech at the Pedagogical School Salvador Allende where she arrived to hand a Chilean national flag, in Havana.  AFP / Yamil Lage
Latina press officer Helen Aguirre Ferre leaves White House 09 Aug 2018 - 07:41 pm
Helen Aguirre Ferré speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo courtesy: Gage Skidmore /Wikimedia  Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0
A year after deadly Virginia rally, wounds are still raw 08 Aug 2018 - 07:33 pm
Four-year-old Leo Griffin leaves a protest against the alt-right movement held to mourn the victims of a rally held a day before in Charlottesville on August 13, 2017 in Chicago (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)
Argentine abortion campaigners braced for crucial vote 08 Aug 2018 - 10:19 am
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Ex-Argentina Vice President Amado Boudou sentenced to prison for corruption 07 Aug 2018 - 09:37 pm
Amado Boudou
In stretch of Arizona border, migrant families keep coming 07 Aug 2018 - 09:37 pm
Detainees sleep in a cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant are being processed at the US Customs and Border Protection’s Nogales Placement Center in this file photo. Reuters / Ross D Franklin
Incoming Colombia president faces long list of challenges 07 Aug 2018 - 09:34 pm
Members of the security forces walk near Bolivar square, where Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque will be sworn in today, in Bogota, Colombia August 7, 2018. Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Man tried to oust adults from site where kids found in filth 07 Aug 2018 - 09:34 pm
It took a plea for help and the search for a missing Georgia boy to finally draw sheriff's deputies to the desolate site that was walled off by stacks of old tires, wooden pallets and other debris.
Nine die of pesticide poisoning at funeral in Peru 07 Aug 2018 - 09:34 pm
A person is transported in a helicopter after eating contaminated food at a funeral in the Peruvian Andes, authorities said on Tuesday, in Ayacucho, Peru, in this undated photo released August 7, 2018. Courtesy of Agencia Andina/Coen Handout via Reuters
Massive wildfire rages after becoming largest in California's history 07 Aug 2018 - 10:34 am
Aerial view of Trabuco Canyon as a tanker aircraft dumps load onto Holy Fire, Near Santiago Peak, California, US, August 6, 2018 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. TWITTER / @ZULUJUMPER/via REUTERS