The campaign for the re-election of Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez has triggered a controversy inside the ruling coalition with, for the first time, a serious public exchange between the leader and a member of Congress.
Ramifications of the suitcase scandal involving Venezuela, Argentina and a Miami federal court have reached Uruguay, where a local judge has requested information from the Central Bank on accounts from some of the characters named in the trial.
Mexico's Home Secretary and other top officials have been killed after the small jet they travelling in went down in the centre of Mexico City. The first reports from the Mexican government currently in a full war against the drug barons, said there were no indications, so far, of a terrorist attack.
Leaders across Latinamerica Wednesday welcomed the election of Barack Obama as the president of the United States and prospects of better relations with Washington.
Kenya has declared Thursday a public holiday to celebrate the election of Barack Obama to the US presidency. Mr Obama's father was from Kenya and his victory has prompted jubilation across the country.
Two Spanish men appeared in the Falkland Islands court on Monday morning in connection with Thursday's seizure of one million pounds worth of cocaine from the fishing vessel 'Venturer', reported the Islands radio station.
A United States federal court in Miami has found a Venezuelan businessman guilty of acting as an illegal foreign agent in US territory to cover up a political scandal involving Argentina.
Taiwan and China held their first high-level talks in Taipei in 60 years on Tuesday, with communications, transport and food safety high in the agenda.
Colombia faces grave human rights challenges in its ongoing conflict, including hostage-taking, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary arrest and detention, despite measures taken by the Government to protect vulnerable groups, the United Nations rights chief says after visiting the Andean country.
Descendants of people who fled Spain during the country's civil war are to be allowed to apply for citizenship. The decision will allow an estimated 500,000 children and grandchildren of civil war-era exiles to seek to return.