State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will "require annual investment and acquisitions" for its operations "exceeding 320 billion pesos (nearly $25.2 billion)" over the next few years,...

A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees...

An independent United Nations expert on indigenous rights called today on the Government of Panama and the country's indigenous groups to establish a dialogue process to stop the recent tensions and...

Three people who abducted and later released Mexican Ambassador Carlos Pujalte and his wife Jan 29 in Venezuela have been arrested, a minister said.

Among those arrested is "the head of the criminal...

MEXICO CITY -; Mexican teens can't solve long-multiplication problems. Education authorities don't know how many teachers work in Mexico. Teachers often miss class, and some who do show up...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A small band of protesters in Haiti has called on President Michel Martelly to prove he's eligible for office.The about 100 people in Tuesday's...

Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez said she will formally complain to the UN Security Council about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. Ms Fernandez...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's president on Tuesday accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and vowed to complain to the United Nations as tension rises ahead of the...

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Perry Christie said in an interview broadcast yesterday that he is satisfied that former ministers Shane Gibson and Leslie Miller are suitable to run in the...

It's been a year since a jury convicted Andre Birbal of having sex with two male students from the Eight Mile Rock High School, but his appeal is still pending. Birbal, who is appealing his...

The government granted citizenship to nearly 2,600 people in the four-and-a-half years it has been in power, Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette revealed yesterday. According to information...

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) candidate for Central and South Eleuthera Damian Gomez alleged yesterday that some of his supporters on the island were denied the opportunity to register to vote. ...

There were 636 reported cases of child abuse in The Bahamas last year, according to Minister of State for Social Development Loretta Butler-Turner. Butler-Turner made that revelation in the House of...

The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) yesterday expressed concerns over the security of overseas voting and said they fear the process could be open to...

DNA Leader Branville McCartney (inset) said that the newly constructed stadium seemed to be 'less of a gift and more of a financial albatross.' TNG file...

Police have identified the victim of a hit and run accident that occurred on East Bay Street on Sunday morning, leaving a middle-aged man dead. According to police, the victim, who was a resident of...

Officials of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) claimed yesterday that management at Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort are pressuring union members to drop the bargaining agent, but hotel officials strongly...

Police reported yesterday that they shut down a school because it was allegedly operating without a proper license. A woman was taken in to custody for questioning by police in connection with the...

The Court of Appeal yesterday refused bail applications for two men who sought release on medical grounds. Lawyers for Anthony Armbrister, who is fighting penile cancer, and Andrew Davis, who had a...

The trial of three men accused of last year's robbery of the Rolex Boutique at the John Bull flagship store on Bay Street begins this afternoon before Justice Indra Charles. Prosecutors allege...

One of the catchiest Bahamian songs on the airwaves this year thus far has also been a song celebrating the value of community service. Kirkland 'KB' Bodie has once again brought many...

Caracas, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Authorities of the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigation Office (CICPC) of Venezuela captured an organization dedicated to international drug trafficking and...

Managua, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Experts from the Cuban Institute of Meteorology are working with their Nicaraguan counterparts on a strategy that will enable this Central American country to better...

Santo Domingo, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) A network of drug traffickers who sent drugs to Puerto Rico, was dismantled in the east of the Dominican Republic. The National Drug Control Office (DNCD)...

Managua, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan families living in extreme poverty received food packages, mattresses, and new housing and building materials, the coordinator of Communication and...

San Salvador, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) The election campaign in El Salvador has brought forth again the debate on a bill on medicines that seeks to lower their high prices and whose debate got bogged...

February 7, 2012 The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, held conversations last week with high-level authorities of the new...

February 7, 2012 The cholera outbreak in Haiti is currently the worst ongoing episode in the world. Over the past 15 months, it has sickened more than half a million people and killed roughly...

- Rio Verde (TSX-V: RVD) drilled deep sylvinite zones with strong grades of potassium chloride - KCl, a popular fertilizer - in the first drillhole from its Sergipe potash project, near Vale's...

HAVANA, Feb 7, 2012 (IPS) - More than a decade ago, solar electricity changed the lives of several mountain communities in Cuba. Now this and other renewable power sources are emerging as the best...

Espaol (IPYS-Venezuela/IFEX) - On January 28, 2012, Alberto Rodrguez, director of online weekly newspaper 6to Poder reported that his Twitter account was attacked after he posted pictures on his...

New York Times reported today that President Obama's campaign would be returning over $200,000 in campaign contributions from family members of Pepe Cardona, a Mexican casino kingpin who fled...

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday slammed Britain for its "militarisation" of their conflict over the Falklands, saying she would lodge a formal...

About 300 striking police officers and their relatives held out Tuesday as soldiers blockaded a state legislature building in northeastern Brazil, and public worker leaders threatened a strike in Rio...

HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4...

Joshua Mayers is the Seattle Sounders FC writer for The Seattle Times. Watch for his coverage of the team, Major League Soccer and soccer around the...

Washington's 50-year-old economic embargo of Cuba, which the island's leaders refer to as a "blockade," has its supporters and detractors. Here's what some people have said...

Argentina has vowed to formally complain to the United Nations about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. The country's President Cristina Fernandez...

NEW DELHI: In an unusual bilateral tie-up, India has agreed to share with Brazil some of its experiences of carrying out an open tender evaluation to select a fighter for the over $10 billion MMRCA...

Argentina is continuing to demand that Britain gives up control of the disputed archipelago with tensions between the two countries growing in recent weeks. Speaking to an audience including...

Embarrassed it might have taken blood-tainted money, Barack Obama's re-election campaign said it was returning donations of $200,000 (125,000) from two American supporters after learning that...

The government of Argentina has played an unlikely card in the escalating dispute over the Falkland Islands: re-naming its domestic football league after the General Belgrano, the warship...

Brazil has sued to suspend accounts of Twitter users who use tweets to warn people about radar locations, speed traps and DUI checkpoints, officials say. The attorney general of Brazil filed for a...