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The global financial crisis pushed people to vote for a party that governed Mexico with a blend of patronage and corruption for more than 70 years.

For scientists, the massive engineering project promises spectacular spinoffs, yanking back the cloak where many life forms got their start.

Restaurants in Canada that serve seal have been thrust into the spotlight now that the European Union has banned imports of Canadian seal products.

The nation’s ambassadors to the United States and the United Nations took different sides on the ouster of the president.

One week after her party suffered a sweeping defeat in elections, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner replaced her cabinet chief and economy minister.

Everyday Americans help finance both sides of the Mexican drug war through illegal drug use and weapon smuggling.

Police officers on Saturday escorted Arnoldo Rueda Medina, accused of running a drug cartel.

The secretary of state lamented the long evaluation required by the Obama administration at a meeting with the United States Agency for International Development.

When Barack Obama checks his in-box this week - a legislative agenda in disarray, and the prospect of painful spending cutbacks and massive tax increases on the horizon - Moscow, by contrast, may look welcoming.

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It took six months of intelligence work for the police to corner a man suspected of being one of western Mexico’s top drug bosses. But retaliation came swiftly.

Steve Lekson’s new book offers a kind of unified theory of the Native American population movements that have puzzled Southwest archaeologists for many years.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Leaders on all sides in Honduras see the United States as the key to getting what they want, even as the Obama administration distances itself from the crisis.

Days after their surprise predawn flight to Bermuda, four Uighur Muslim men basked in their new-found freedom from the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Low-emission buses could greatly reduce heat-trapping gases produced in the developing world’s booming cities.

Alberto Fujimori acknowledged that he had paid his spy chief $15 million in government money to quit as the government collapsed amid a corruption scandal.

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The ousted Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, swept over Honduras as crowds of his supporters engaged in violent clashes with soldiers and riot police at the airport.

Discord between those for and against a U.S.-owned smelting plant festers in La Oroya's labyrinthine streets.

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