August 19, 2016 Colombia urges UN to quickly deploy peace verification team Colombia's high commissioner for peace is urging the U.N.
August 19, 2016 Colombia's half-century-long rebel conflict at a glance A look at Colombia's half-century guerrilla conflict: HOW IT STARTED The 1948 assassination of populist firebrand Jorge Eliecer Gaitan led to a political bloodletting known as "La Violencia," or "The Violence." Tens of thousands died, and peasant groups joined with communists to arm themselves.
August 19, 2016 'El Chapo's' kidnapped son potential bargaining chip For the ambitious Jalisco New Generation cartel, it must have seemed like a gift: Imprisoned Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son, partying at a gourmet restaurant deep in their territory.
August 19, 2016 Mexican drug lord's kidnapped son potential bargaining chip For the ambitious Jalisco New Generation cartel, it must have seemed like a gift: Imprisoned Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son, partying at a gourmet restaurant deep in their territory.
August 19, 2016 Syria's first responders: 'Most dangerous job in the world' It took Mahmoud Fadlallah and the team of seven rescue workers 30 minutes to reach the middle-aged couple trapped beneath the rubble of their apartment building in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo.
August 19, 2016 3 killed in car bomb attack on police station in Turkey A Turkish official says a car bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkey has killed a police officer and two civilians.
August 19, 2016 Mexico's rights agency says police killed 22 at ranch Federal police killed at least 22 people on a ranch last year, then moved bodies and planted guns to corroborate the official account that the deaths happened in a gunbattle, Mexico's human rights commission said Thursday.
August 19, 2016 2 Puerto Rico distributors settle in US toxic pesticide case Two pesticide distributors in Puerto Rico have agreed to pay a $210,000 fine as part of a settlement with the federal government after they were accused of violating laws regarding a toxic pesticide that nearly killed a U.S. family in the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands.
August 19, 2016 Mexico's rights body: Federal police executed 22 during raid The government's human rights agency is accusing federal police of executing at least 22 people during a confrontation with suspected cartel criminals last year and then rearranging the scene by moving bodies and planting guns to support the official version of the bloodshed.
August 19, 2016 Cubans, tourists bemoan trashing of island's beaches Hayde Lanza, her sister-in-law and their children left home in their swimsuits after breakfast, loaded with food, juice and bottled water.
