Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro met Thursday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid hopes for new loans to bolster the South American nation’s stricken economy. Xi reiterated the importance of relations…
By BEN FOX Six prisoners held for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have been sent to Uruguay to be resettled as refugees, the U.S. government announced Sunday — a deal…
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and BRADLEY BROOKS Demonstrators push over a police car during a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup soccer…
By NICOLE WINFIELD In this image from video, Pope Francis records a video message to camera, Thursday June 12, 2014, giving a message for the soccer World Cup: Let football…
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during his annual state-of-the-nation address to the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) Nicolas Maduro Venezuela’s…
By JILL LAWLESS A band leads the coffin of great train robber Ronnie Biggs into Golders Green Crematorium in London, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. The world renowned robber Biggs who…
By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA Hector Sala, an Babalawo Afro-Cuban Santeria priest, arrives for a press conference about the annual “Letter of the Year” that lists predictions made by Cuban Santeros for…
Aerial view of Santa Leopoldina municipality, flooded after heavy rains, in Espirito Santo state, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013. Civil defense officials say the death toll in the floods and…
