The approach of Tropical Storm Otto has put Costa Rica in the highest state of readiness. The hurricane center in Miami warned Wednesday for spring floods and landslides in the coastal areas in the Central American country. Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís announced subsequent alarm stage 1 onwards. Thousands of people have abandoned their homes. is arranged emergency accommodation for them.
A boxing match in which you can not actually do that, but that you still get the clap. As Mexico experienced the American elections of 2016. And it will take some time for all fragments are glued and licked the wounds. If that is successful with Donald Trump as president.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced Thursday his new cabinet. Many ministers remain in the same place as during his first government, but the new team of fourteen ministers (including the prime minister) has six new faces. Five ministers are women.
The Colombian authorities have so far this year over 300 tons of cocaine seized. Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said this weekend that never had such a large quantity being cocaine was seized in a year.
Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray Caso, Wednesday resigned. According to Mexican media was his plan to invite the US Republican Donald Trump, the grounds for dismissal.
Mexico has captured one of the founders of the notorious Los Zetas drug cartel for the second time. Reported that the Mexican security agency Friday.
Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed the long-awaited committee to study whether women can be deacons and which can form a historic overture to another place for women in the Roman Catholic Church.
John Jairo Velásquez (54), who for years was the main hit man for drug lord Pablo Escobar, is nowadays career vlogger on YouTube.
Lions in the Zoo of Santiago in Chile on Saturday attacked a visitor and seriously injured. The 20-year-old Franco Luis Ferrada had asked for it: He had the eyes of countless visitors over the fence of the housing of the lions climbed. Initially, the animals ignored him, but after the man she challenged, they attacked.
President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic on Monday celebrated his reelection. According to preliminary results he achieved more than 60 percent of the vote.
Plans for an official John Wayne-day in California can in the trash. The state Congress voted a proposal to May 26 to dedicate the cowboy hero away because Waynes racist views, US media reported.
The soap opera surrounding the dismissal of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will have a new chapter at the UN tomorrow. The tottering head of state is specially traveled to New York to seek support for a 'parliamentary coup' in their own country.
It started so romantic. The 27-year-old Michael Banks had a 180 meter high rock climb to ask you to marry FaceTime on top of his girlfriend. She said yes, but then it went wrong.
An aunt of the Spanish King Felipe VI, Pilar de Borbon, has long had one in Panama, established offshore firm, but perfectly legal and not out of sight of the Spanish tax authorities. This let the 79-year-old De Borbón Spanish media Wednesday. She was named early this week as one of the ringleaders who channeled according to the so-called Panama Papers money to tax havens.
The death toll from an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola has risen to 225. An estimated 1,600 people become infected with the virus. That made the Angolan Health Minister Luis Sambo on Tuesday.
Increasingly bred lynx released into the wild. In Spain, there are already about 327 around in nature.
A Portuguese in Britain was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for his involvement in defrauding the Dutch company Allseas. The 49-year-old Luis Nobre got to worry about the organization, according to the British police about 100 million euros for him.
It is unique that one twin was born with two birth years. Jaelyn girl saw on December 31, 2015 at 23:59 born in San Diego, US, and her twin brother Luis just minutes later on January 1st, 2016 at 0:02 pm.
Costa Rica wants to work with Cuba to find a solution for the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in the Central American country. The topic is on the agenda of the two countries. That said Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís Monday at the start of his several-day visit to the Cuban capital Havana. Tuesday he goes with his counterpart Raul Castro to talk about it.
A local leader of an opposition party in Venezuela on Wednesday shot dead. That happened at the beginning of the evening from a car when he gave a speech at a podium.
