Associated Press
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
Col. Jose Menezes was introduced Tuesday as the new head for the military police. He says he'll reverse the amnesty for officers.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
Argentina holds the rotating Security Council presidency this month and chose as the theme of Tuesday's high-level meeting the relations between the Security Council and regional organizations.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
Firefighters found the body of Jesus Lima on Tuesday inside his car parked outside the Sultana Radio station in the city of Zacapa. He had been shot twice.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
The Emiliano Zapata Revolutionary Agrarian League said victims Raymundo Velazquez Flores and Samuel Vargas Ramirez were members of the group.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
Esa organizacion rebelde y el Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional, "nunca antes habian estado en una situacion tan debil", anadio Santos.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
"Esa iniciativa unilateral del gobierno que hoy debate la Corte Constitucional ningun papel positivo jugara en el proceso de paz en que se han comprometido las FARC", sentencio Catatumbo.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 12:53
A government spokesman in Ivory Coast says judges have approved the provisional release of 14 loyalists of former President Laurent Gbagbo who were arrested following the country's 2010-11 postelection violence.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:57
The U.S. State Department closed its embassies in four sub-Saharan African nations as part of a heightened security alert, days before the 15th anniversary of al-Qaida's bombings of American diplomatic missions in Kenya and Tanzania.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:52
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says that after a preliminary investigation she believes that acts attributed to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are likely crimes against humanity.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:38
A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for one of the most notorious arms dealers of its brutal 11-year civil war, but a justice official later said the ally of imprisoned former Liberian President Charles Taylor had already been kicked out — raising Western fears he will never be tried.
Adding to the confusion, his native Senegal denied it had received him.