| Turkish Minister In Brazil To Get Award For Pm Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay left Sunday for Brazil to receive an award by UN-Habitat and Rafic Hariri Foundation on behalf of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.... | |
| Vital Derby Wins For Cartagena And Santa Fe Real Cartagena humiliated Junior in Saturday's coastal derby in order to defend their comfortable lead, while Santa Fe beat Bogota rivals Millonarios to enter the top four. Real Cartagena scored the... |
| Former President Carlos Andres Perez Will Not Return To Venezuela: Wife CARACAS, Venezuela -- The wife of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez ridiculed an attempt to extradite her husband from the United States, suggesting that President Hugo Chavez is... |
| Disappointing Boks Go Out To Argentina A below-par Springbok side squandered a great opportunity to advance to the semifinals of the IRB Sevens World Series tournament in Adelaide when they went down 17-14 to a committed Argentina in... |
| 2.5 Metric Tons Of Cocaine Paste Seized Uncategorized On March 19 Bolivian police seized 2.560 kilos of cocaine paste in the Barrio Libertad area of Santa Cruz. The drugs had an estimated value of over five million dollars. Police raided... |
| Journalist Shot And Killed In Northern Colombia The killing of a radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman in the northrn department of Cordoba reignited concerns Saturday about the safety of journalists in Colombia. Clodomiro Castilla, a reporter... |
| Farc Commander Sentenced To 20 Years In Us Jail A former leader in the Colombian guerrilla group FARC has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. Jorge Enrique Rodriguez Mendieta, alias "Ivan Vargas", pleaded guilty in December to an... |
| China Loans $30 Million For Road Equipment Transportation On March 19th, the People’s Republic of China loaned the La Paz municipal government $30 million to buy heavy machinery for construction and road maintenance. The governor of... |
| Ecuador's Cabinet To Resign Quito - Ecuador President Rafael Correa on Saturday asked his cabinet to hand in their resignations as part of a major government reshuffle.The leftist Correa, 46, a former economy minister who... |
| Ecuador Will Not Forget China's "mistreatment": President President Rafael Correa said Saturday, threatening to seek financing from Taiwan.Correa said that he "unilaterally ended" talks on Wednesday with... |
| Uruguay Is Wine World's Rising Star has its Carmenere. Now Uruguay, not to be out-muscled by its more famous wine-producing neighbors, is taking the world of viticulture by storm, with its distinctive Tannat... |
| Moderate Earthquake, Aftershock Shake Eastern Cuba HAVANA -- A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were... |
| Argentina Expanded At Slowest Pace Last Year Buenos Aires : Argentina's economy expanded last year at the slowest pace since pulling out of a recession in 2003, as a global crisis choked exports and agricultural output fell because of the worst... |
| New Tip Leads Aruba To Search For Missing Us Teen ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- Authorities will search once again for a missing U.S. teen after an American couple took an underwater picture of what they believe might be Natalee Holloway's remains, a... |
| Authorities Nab Prominent Neo-paramilitary Boss Police arrested the leader of 'Los Urabeños', a drug-running neo-paramilitary group active in the north-east of Colombia, the country's president Alvaro Uribe announced Saturday. The alleged... |
| Newspaper Publisher Shot Dead In Colombia Bogota - A newspaper publisher known for his attacks on corruption and nepotism in Colombia has been shot dead, news reports said Saturday.Clodomiro Castilla, 49, publisher of El Pulso del Tiempo... |
| Colombia Coffee Crop To Surge On ‘optimal’ Weather, Group Says March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s coffee output will jump 41 percent this year from a 33-year low as a combination of “optimal” weather and adequate fertilizer use improves yields,... |
| Paraguay, El Salvador Tied To Derecognise Taiwan, Says Official Taipei - Paraguay and El Salvador tried to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in order to recognize China, but China rejected the offer due to improving Taipei-Beijing ties, a Taiwanese official said... |
| We Just Aren't Brazil... As I walked by the sea, the sun beating down, the mountains in the distance, bronzed, toned bodies sunning themselves on the sand; and in the evening as I sat at a beachfront cafe, sipping on a... |