Associated Press
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
Chile is giving nearly 57,000 18-year-olds one month to report for potential military duty, saying the government needs to fill gaps in its armed forces because a nationwide student protest movement has reduced the number of volunteers it usually gets.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
More than 50,000 18-year-olds have one month to report for service as student protests are blamed for disrupting recruitment
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
Venezuela's Supreme Court threw into doubt the presidential campaign of a prominent opposition leader on Monday by upholding a bar on him holding office.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Monday that 61 men who had been kidnapped by a drug cartel before soldiers rescued them were migrants.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday signed a pledge to push for construction of a fence along the entire length of the border with Mexico, raising the issue of illegal immigration in an Iowa town where about one third of the residents are Hispanic
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
President Barack Obama plans to sign trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia on Friday, capping years of negotiations and completing U.S. action on the biggest trade deal since the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
La Corte Suprema acordo el martes solicitar a Alemania la extradicion del medico Hartmut Hopp, ex jerarca de la colonia alemana Dignidad, quien huyo a su pais natal.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
Una nina de 10 anos se reencontro el lunes con su familia en medio de la algarabia tras ser liberada despues de haber estado mas de dos semanas secuestrada.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
La Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) inauguro el lunes su 67 Asamblea General senalando su preocupacion por las acciones de gobiernos totalitarios en la region que buscan limitar y restringir la libertad de expresion en sus paises.
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 00:00
People are making it clear in the streets and elsewhere that long-tolerated sins such as bribery, graft and other acts of corruption are no longer tolerable