PANAMA CITY – Mexico and Panama signed a free-trade pact Thursday that could pave the way for the small Central American nation to join an alliance of Latin American partners turned toward Asia.
On Thursday, the United States Agency for International Development confirmed the broad outlines of an Associated Press report exposing the clandestine creation of a phony "Cuban Twitter" network that was meant to undermine the Castro government.
MEXICO CITY – Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez was being treated at a Mexico City hospital Thursday for a lung infection but he was doing well, his son and officials said.
Motorists will pay an additional ₡25-45 in per-liter prices of fuel after the Public Services Regulatory Authority on Wednesday approved a hike request filed last month by the National Oil Refinery.
President Laura Chinchilla declared that Friday would be a holiday for public employees as long as they spend their day off watching some World Cup action.
Elated by what's been considered a successfully run Under-17 Women's World Cup, the head of the Costa Rican Football Federation (Fedefut) said he wants to organize next a lower-level men's World Cup championship.
U.S. Army Specialist Iván López, the soldier suspected in a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, is a father of four children and a former police officer who served 10 years on the force in his native Puerto Rico before taking leave to join the Army.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to make public a long-awaited report that concludes that the CIA's use of brutal interrogation measures did not produce valuable intelligence and that the agency repeatedly misled government officials about the severity and success of the program.
