April 2, 2016 Spanish police arrest 3 for threatening a flight by phone Spanish police say they have arrested two men and a woman on suspicion they caused an airliner that had taken off from Madrid's airport to turn back.
April 2, 2016 Iraqi PM seeks parliament approval for new cabinet Iraq's prime minister is due to seek parliamentary approval for a cabinet reshuffle amid mounting pressure for political reform.
April 2, 2016 Haiti protest demands justice for 3 slain deaf women Hundreds of protesters marched in Haiti's capital on Friday to demand justice following the brutal killings of three deaf women who were tortured, stoned and left in a gully by attackers.
April 2, 2016 Outside experts say at least 17 burned at Mexican dump A member of a six-person fire expert team that conducted a third investigation of a dump site in southern Mexico says evidence indicates there was a large fire there in which at least 17 people were burned.
April 2, 2016 Report: North Korea fires projectile into sea South Korea's Yonhap news agency says North Korea has fired a projectile into the sea.
April 1, 2016 El Salvador OKs emergency prisons package to aid gang fight Lawmakers in El Salvador have approved a package of emergency measures giving the government freer rein to manage the country's gang-dominated prisons.
April 1, 2016 OAS warns of 'semi-democratic' presidential election in Peru The head of the Organization of American States says next week's presidential election in Peru could lack credibility unless two recently-disqualified candidates are allowed to run.
April 1, 2016 Brazil Supreme Court justice slams country's political class A Brazilian Supreme Court justice was caught on tape calling the country's politics a "disaster" and saying the political system "doesn't have a minimum of democratic legitimacy," according to news reports Friday.
April 1, 2016 Egypt's abuses, crackdown on critics draw world attention Nearly three years into a heavy crackdown overseen by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, allegations of human rights abuses including killings, torture and secret detentions are starting to bring an international backlash from the Egyptian leader's allies.
April 1, 2016 Cuban migration to US nearly doubles in last quarter of 2015 New U.S. statistics show nearly twice as many Cuban migrants reached the United States by foot and sea in the last three months of 2015 compared with the same period the year earlier, an exodus apparently fueled by the restoration of diplomatic relations between the former political foes.
