Brazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 75 dead
By LUIS BENAVIDES and JOSHUA GOODMAN A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces,…
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Trove of data on offshore accounts prompts probe, questions
The release of a vast trove of documents and data on offshore financial dealings of wealthy, famous and powerful people around the world is raising questions over the widespread use…
South America hacker team targets dissidents, journalists
By FRANK BAJAK A shadowy cyber-espionage group that sent malware to the prosecutor whose mysterious death transfixed Argentina early this year has been hitting targets in left-leaning nations across South…
Pope Francis a stranger to the US in many ways
By RACHEL ZOLL When Pope Francis sets foot on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington on Sept. 22, it won’t just be his first time in the…
Case against Argentine president moves forward
The Associated Press The prosecutor who inherited a high-profile case against Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Friday reaffirmed the accusations, formally renewing the investigation into whether the president helped Iranian…
Test of gun finds only DNA of deceased Argentine prosecutor
Testing of the pistol used to kill a prosecutor who had leveled incendiary charges against Argentina’s president has found traces of DNA only belonging to him, the lead investigator in…
Russia grants bail to 9 foreign activists
By VITNIJA SALDAVA Greenpeace International activist Miguel Hernan Perez Orsi of Argentina, left, reacts to a verdict and holds a photo of his daughter in a cage at a court…
Argentine president returns to work after surgery
FILE – In this Oct. 7, 2013 file photo, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez arrives to a local hospital for surgery, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On Monday, Nov. 18, Fernandez is…