CALIFORNIA LATINOS SHOW DEEP ROOTS IN US
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, ELLIOT SPAGAT and AMY TAXIN In this July 16, 2013 photo, Hilario Santiago Vasquez, right, looks on as his wife Josefina Hernandez Santiago holds the couple’s 5-month-old…
Latin America and Caribbean
RAUL CASTRO ISSUES STERN WARNING TO ENTREPRENEURS
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Cuba’s President Raul Castro delivers his speech at the closing of the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in…
EUROPE LAUNCHES SATELLITE TO MAP 1 BILLION STARS
By FRANK JORDANS and DANICA COTO This photo provided by ESA (European Space Agency), taken on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, shows the Gaia satellite at the Kourou space base, French…
SNOWDEN: NSA’S INDISCRIMINATE SPYING ‘COLLAPSING’
By BRADLEY BROOKS FILE – This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden wrote…
COMMISSION: EX-BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT WAS MURDERED
FILE – In this undated 1960 file photo, Brazil President Juscelino Kubitschek poses for a photo in Brasilia, Brazil. The Truth Commission of Sao Paulo’s city council says the car…
MAYOR ORDERED OUSTED IN COLOMBIA’S CAPITAL
FILE – In this Jan. 1, 2012 file photo, Bogota’s Mayor Gustavo Petro delivers his inaugural speech during his swearing-in ceremony in Bogota, Colombia. Inspector-General Alejandro Ordonez has ordered Petro…
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT FACES FIRST ELECTORAL TEST
By JOSHUA GOODMAN A member of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council tests a voting machine at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Venezuelans will vote in…
6 DETAINED IN MEXICO THEFT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON A cameraman films the radiation head that was part of a radiation therapy machine, in the patio of the family who found…