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Tropical storm sweeps through Caribbean
Aug 2 2006 10:20PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Tropical Storm Chris swept through the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday, forcing cruise ships to change course and tourists to evacuate small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico as it threatened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
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Fox urges end to Mexico City protests
Aug 2 2006 10:13PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox urged Mexico City authorities Wednesday to remove sprawling camps of leftist protesters who want a complete recount of last month's presidential election, saying they are choking off commerce and tourism in the capital.
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Castro seems to be running show in Cuba
Aug 2 2006 10:01PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro still appeared to be running the show in Cuba on Wednesday after undergoing abdominal surgery and naming his brother acting president, while police and civilian groups patrolled neighborhoods that have seen civil disturbances in the past.
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Bolivia's Morales hands out titles
Aug 2 2006 9:23PM (CT)
UCURENA, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales handed out titles for farmland and tractors made in Venezuela and Iran to Bolivian peasants on Wednesday as he drummed up support for his ambitious agrarian reform.
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Brazilian military to aid stray penguins
Aug 2 2006 9:05PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil is staging a military operation involving a Hercules transport plane and Navy ships _ all to return four dozen wayward penguins to the icy waters of Antarctica, authorities said Wednesday.
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Mine kills 6 Colombia coca eradicators
Aug 2 2006 6:42PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A land mine planted by leftist rebels killed six coca eradicators and injured seven others in southern Colombia on Wednesday, the government said.
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Mudslide kills 11 in southern Mexico
Aug 2 2006 6:39PM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Heavy rains caused a mountainside to give way in rural, southern Mexico on Wednesday, burying two homes and killing 11 people, four of them children, officials said.
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This may be Castro's closest call yet
Aug 2 2006 2:22PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - When Fidel Castro was 10, he nearly died of appendicitis. Since then, he has survived military assaults and even poisoned cigars and milkshakes. Now, two weeks shy of his 80th birthday, surgery has sidelined the leader of Cuba's revolution.
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Women seize TV station in Oaxaca, Mexico
Aug 2 2006 1:59PM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - About 500 women banging spoons against pots and pans seized a state-run television station and broadcast a homemade video Wednesday that showed police kicking protesters out of Oaxaca's main square last month.
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Plane woes postpone Annan's Haiti trip
Aug 2 2006 1:54PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan postponed a visit to Haiti Wednesday due to airplane problems, officials said.
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