July 2, 2017 Drug kingpin White Head, who changed his face with plastic surgery, caught in Brazil A drug lord who had plastic surgery to change his appearance has been captured in Brazil after three decades on the run.
June 30, 2017 Face of the Venezuela crisis: Helicopter attacks, alleged coup and clash of powers The political crisis in Venezuela intensified this week when President Nicolas Maduro warned of an alleged "American intervention," a police helicopter attacked the country’s highest court with grenades and more young people died in protests against the government.
June 28, 2017 Ex-Catholic school teacher sentenced to 1 year in jail for sexual relationship with teen A former Catholic elementary school teacher in Canada was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison after pleading guilty to having a sexual relationship with a teenage student.
June 28, 2017 Venezuela crisis: Maduro says police helicopter fired on Supreme Court, Interior Ministry A police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court and Interior Ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro said was a thwarted "terrorist attack" aimed at ousting him from power.
June 27, 2017 Trudeau: Canada's record-breaking sniper should be 'celebrated' Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau cheered his country's sniper credited with shattering a world record last month when he shot an Islamic State fighter from 11,316 feet away in Iraq.
June 27, 2017 Turks and Caicos shooting: Alabama man recovering in Florida hospital A family was vacationing in the Caribbean when the father was shot in the abdomen and severely injured during a robbery.
June 26, 2017 Hurricane Dora strengthens off Mexico's southwestern coast Hurricane Dora strengthened off Mexico's Pacific coast on Monday, but posed little threat to land as it spun out into the ocean.
June 26, 2017 Seth Thomas, missing USC medical student, found dead in Peru A University of South Carolina Medical School student is believed to have died due to a hiking accident in the Andes Mountains.
June 26, 2017 Colombia tourist boat sinking: at least 6 dead and 15 missing President Juan Manuel Santos has arrived at the Guatape reservoir in Colombia where a tourist boat capsized and said that 122 people were either rescued or found their way to shore. He said that six people had died and another 15 were missing.
June 23, 2017 Ecuador oil spill case moves abroad after US Supreme Court setback The legal battle between Chevron and lawyers representing a group of villagers in Ecuador dates back to 1993 when U.S. lawyers sued Texaco in a federal court over claims that it contaminated a large portion of the rainforest in northeast Ecuador while looking for oil.
