The Americas - Page 213

December 12, 2018

Nicaraguan lawmakers go after allegedly anti-government NGOs

President Daniel Ortega's allies in Nicaragua's legislature are canceling the legal status of non-governmental groups identified as supporting months-long opposition protests.

December 12, 2018

Turkey vows to take on US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria

Turkey will launch a new military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria "within a few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move likely to further strain ties between NATO allies Turkey and the United States.

December 12, 2018

US urges UN to ban Iran nuclear missiles, keep arms embargo

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to again ban Iranian ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and to maintain an arms embargo that is scheduled to be lifted in 2020 under the landmark Iran nuclear deal.

December 12, 2018

Venezuela's Maduro: US leads assassination plot against him

Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that he's uncovered an assassination plot that leads directly to the White House.

December 12, 2018

Memorial for cathedral victims, death toll rises to 5

Close to 1,000 people attended a memorial service Wednesday for the people gunned down inside a cathedral in southeastern Brazil, and authorities said the toll of dead had risen to five.

December 12, 2018

The Latest: Ex-VP Gore thinks Trump may help climate cause

The Latest on the climate talks taking place in Poland (all times local): 9:00 p.m. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says he thinks President Donald Trump's stance on global warming may actually advance the cause of tackling climate change.

December 12, 2018

US diplomats in Havana had inner-ear damage, neurological injuries: doctors

American diplomats affected by mysterious health incidents in Cuba showed damage in the inner ear shortly after they complained of weird noises and sensations.

December 12, 2018

Gunman who opened fire inside Catholic cathedral ‘mentally ill,’ Brazil authorities say

The gunman who killed four people before turning the weapon on himself inside a Catholic cathedral in southeastern Brazil on Monday was suffering from depression and “mentally ill,” authorities said.

December 11, 2018

El Chapo’s beauty queen wife disses media’s ‘unfair’ caricature of her drug-lord husband in rare interview

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the 29-year-old wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and the mother of their twin 7-year-old daughters, claims the media is giving her husband a bad rap: she said in a new interview that he’s normal and ordinary, and not an infamous horror media fabrication.

December 11, 2018

Meng Wanzhou, Chinese telecom exec facing possible extradition to US, granted bail by Canadian judge

A Canadian judge has granted bail to a top Chinese executive facing possible extradition to the U.S. in a case that has led to the apparent detention of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing and complicated high-stakes U.S.-China trade talks.