June 9, 2016 Bus accident in southern Brazil leaves 16 dead, many injured A bus in southern Brazil has veered off the side a highway and crashed, leaving 16 dead and 30 injured.
June 9, 2016 US to turn drug cartel founder over to Mexico The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says Sinaloa cartel co-founder Hector "El Guero" Palma will be turned over to Mexican authorities after his release from a U.S. prison.
June 9, 2016 FIAT Argentina removes handbook seen as misogynistic FIAT Argentina is removing from circulation one of the handbooks it handed out with its cars following criticism by women's groups that it is sexist.
June 9, 2016 Venezuela opposition leader hit with a pipe in the face The leader of Venezuela's congressional opposition bloc says a government supporter hit him in the face with a pipe as he was attempting to make his way into a government building.
June 9, 2016 Nicaragua court throws out leadership of opposition party Nicaragua's Supreme Court has thrown out the current leader of the main opposition party and reinstated a former leader who had sued for control of the Independent Liberal Party.
June 9, 2016 Sistine Chapel replica unveiled in Mexico City Renaissance art lovers in Mexico won't need to travel to Vatican City to see the glories of the Sistine Chapel.
June 9, 2016 US backed fighters almost surround ISIS stronghold in Syria U.S.-backed fighters on Thursday closed all major roads leading to the northern Syrian town of Manbij, a stronghold of the Islamic State group and surrounded it from three sides, officials and Syrian opposition activists said.
June 9, 2016 Scandal-prone Brazil government casts doubt on president's impeachment When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and suspended last month, her permanent ouster seemed all but certain.
June 9, 2016 Family says Canadian-Iranian professor detained in Iran The family of a retired Canadian-Iranian professor who studies women's issues across the Middle East says she has been detained in Iran without charges.
June 9, 2016 Presidential vote count drags on, leaving Peruvians on edge Economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski clung to a thin lead over the daughter of a jailed former president early Wednesday as the count from Peru's presidential election dragged on, straining nerves in a nation divided after a polarizing campaign.
