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38 Haitian Migrants Die in Boating Accident Near Cuba

Cuba says civil defense forces rescued 87 others; search under way for more possible victims

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U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross and his wife Judy (2nd L) pose with their daughters in this undated family photograph, released on October 23, 2010.

US 'Disappointed' Cuba Will Not Release American Prisoner

US deplores fact Cuba didn't include Alan Gross in humanitarian release, 'especially in light of his deteriorating health'

Cuba's President Raul Castro (C) smiles as he talks to parliament members during a parliamentary meeting when it was announced Cuba's supreme governing body has granted a pardon to 2,900 prisoners, in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 23, 2011.

Cuba to Pardon 2,900 Prisoners

Country's supreme governing body will free prisoners for humanitarian reasons, including some convicted of crimes against state

International Criminal Court at The Hague (file)

Nicaragua Files Proceedings Against Costa Rica Over Road Project

Nicaragua files suit at UN's highest court, seeking to stop building of road along banks of San Juan River separating the two countries

Inlingua staff prepares for end of 2011 academic year

For Some, Learning English is Business

Foreigners hoping to score better jobs, business deals travel to US to beef up English skills

FIFA President Sepp Blatter attends a news conference following the body's executive committee meeting in Tokyo, December 17, 2011.

FIFA 'Concerned' About Brazil's 2014 World Cup

Soccer’s world governing body raises questions about country’s readiness to host prestigious tournament

Venezuelan international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, foreground, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, sits in a Paris courtroom. (File)

'Carlos the Jackal' Sentenced to Life in Prison

Judge says 62-year-old, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, must serve at least 18 years of life sentence

Venezuelan soldiers escort Colombian drug-trafficking boss Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco (C) before being extradited to the United States, in Caracas on December 15, 2011.

Venezuela Extradites Drug Kingpin to US

Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, who had a $5 million bounty on his head, is accused of shipping tons of cocaine to the US

Lori Berenson sits in a migration office in Lima December 19, 2011.

Lori Berenson Arrives in US

American Lori Berenson spent 15 years in Peruvian jail for helping Marxist insurgents

A person holds a sign with the date December 23, 1947 next to the wound of a person who had been infected with a venereal disease in the late 1940s in an unknown location in Guatemala, in this undated picture released online in March 2011 by The National

US Report Finds Human Research Subjects Enjoy Adequate Protection

The head of presidential commission says 'what happened in Guatemala in the 1940s could not happen today'

A malnourished woman lies in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of  Dadaab, Kenya, (File).

UN Appeals for $7.7 Billion in Emergency Aid

Beneficiary countries include DRC, Somalia, Haiti, Philippines, Yemen and the occupied Palestinian territory

Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent leaves after announcing that Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, December 12, 2011.

China: Canada's Kyoto Protocol Withdrawal 'Regrettable'

Ottawa's move comes days after climate-change negotiators met to hammer-out global deal in Durban, South Africa


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