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Bow and arrow used to send phones into Brazil jail

SAO PAULO (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old teen was detained after he shot arrows with cell phones attached over the walls of a prison…

5 police officers killed by road bomb in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities say five police officers were killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb while on patrol…

Facebook page leads search for loved ones in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang…

Girl dies of injuries from Colombian plane crash

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl injured when a jetliner carrying 131 people crashed on Colombia's San Andres Island last…

Mexico confirms 2nd migrant survived massacre

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A second migrant survived the massacre of 72 Central and South Americans near the border with the U.S., Mexican…

Video: Captured Mexican drug lord knew top capos

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico's most…

Ecuador says 2nd migrant survived Mexico massacre

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president says a second person survived a drug gang's massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico.

72 dead migrants found in Mexico tip of iceberg

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Paula Cruz wept quietly at the foreign ministry office in El Salvador's capital after reporting that…

Migrants say Arizona worth risk of crossing

NOGALES, Mexico (AP) — Hector Ortega stumbled across the body of a fellow migrant as he walked across Arizona's harsh desert in the…

Farmer-turned-hunger striker dies in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela's government has died in a…

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