Euro-zone countries appear far from compromise
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New measures to stop the crisis are likely only if things get a lot worse, analysts say.
Mexico’s ruling crime cartels escalate brutality in all-out war
The Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas are staging public massacres in order to terrify and intimidate, officials say.
Probe opens into Honduras drug bust
Allegedly deadly firefight triggered protests and demands that U.S. anti-drug agents leave the area.
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate is handsome, popular and a mystery
A victory by Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico’s presidential election would put the country back in the hands of the party that governed for 71 years.
49 torsos found along Mexican highway
Mexico’s hyper-violent mafias have been seemingly engaged in a gruesome game of one-upmanship in recent weeks.
In Mexico, a celebration of the mother cult
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Tomas Borge Martinez, Sandinista movement’s last surviving founder
At 81 he was the last of the guerrillas who overthrew Nicaragua’s U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979.
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Africa
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Europe
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