Latin America

The powerful storm, which was a maximum Category 5 hurricane on Monday, had weakened to Category 3 as it moved toward land.

Anti-corruption prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez has asked the court to hold Fujimori and 11 others for the lengthy period as his team investigates who benefited from millions of dollars in campaign bribes from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Analysts believe 65-year-old Mesa, a historian and journalist who previously governed Bolivia between 2003 and 2005, is the only hope of uniting the whole opposition against Morales.

Argentina becomes the country that gets the largest loan ever in the history of the International Monetary Fund, with the intention of rescuing the country's troubled finances. It is about $ 57.1 billion, to be disbursed over the next three years.

Peace talks have been suspended since the beginning of August when ex-president Juan Manuel Santos admitted defeat in his bid to reach a conclusion before handing over power to Duque. 

Speaking to the Cuban state press upon his arrival in New York for the UN General Assembly, Diaz-Canel said he would use his speech at the annual gathering to denounce the commercial, economic, and financial embargo "which has already failed and will continue to fail."