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Rice lobbies for Colombia trade deal
Jan 24 2008 10:32PM (CT)
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the challenges facing Colombia will only get harder if a trade deal with Washington doesn't pass, as she met with union members during a visit to try to revive the pact.
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Mexico City rolls out women-only buses
Jan 24 2008 8:55PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto subways and buses each day. Some men treat women so badly that the subway system has long had ladies-only cars during rush hour, with police segregating the sexes on the platforms.
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Brazil to crack down on deforestation
Jan 24 2008 1:31PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will try to combat deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to 36 cities and towns where illegal rain forest clearing jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.
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Fugitive officer arrested in rights case
Jan 24 2008 10:44AM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A retired police colonel who went into hiding to avoid a 10-year prison sentence in a human rights case dating from the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been arrested, police reported.
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Cuba's Castro thought he was dying
Jan 24 2008 10:42AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro revealed Thursday that he thought he was dying when he fell ill in July 2006, and hastily made plans to give up power as doctors fought to save his life.
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