ACTIVISTS RELEASE DOGS FROM LAB IN BRAZIL
Demonstrators run away from the Instituto Royal laboratory to escape tear gas fired by police, as a police car burns along a road leading to the lab in Sao Roque,…
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ARGENTINE COMMUTER TRAIN SLAMS INTO STATION, AGAIN
By DAMIAN PACHTER Police officers and paramedics carry a wounded passenger to an ambulance after a commuter train slammed into the end of the line when arriving to Once central…
PERU’S JAILED PRESIDENT BEGINS ANOTHER TRIAL
Jailed former President Alberto Fujimori enters the courtroom before the start of his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Fujimori faces…
VENEZUELA EXPECTED TO RELEASE SEIZED SHIP SOON
A Venezuelan Coast Guard boat sits next to the 285-foot survey ship Teknik Perdana docked near the shore in Margarita Island, Venezuela, Sunday Oct. 13, 2013. The U.S.-chartered oil exploration…
JOURNALIST BLASTS US SPY PROGRAM
American journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, speaks to a congressional committee investigating reports based on documents, leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, showing that Brazil was targeted by…
DOCTORS: ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ‘EVOLVING FAVORABLY’
DOCTORS: ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ‘EVOLVING FAVORABLY’ A picture of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez hangs outside the Favaloro Hospital where she is undergoing surgery on her skull months after she suffered an…
ARGENTINES WORRY AFTER LEADER’S SKULL SURGERY
By MICHAEL WARREN Victoria Sanchez, a supporter of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, cries outside the Favaloro Hospital where Fernandez is undergoing surgery on her skull months after she suffered an…
DEMONSTRATIONS TURN VIOLENT IN BRAZIL
A demonstrator with his face covered jumps over a burning barricade at the Cinelandia square during a march in support of teachers on strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday,…