TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Wednesday that some of its agents were aboard a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police who opened fire on a small boat on a Honduran river, and a local official said two men and two pregnant women were killed.
Angry inhabitants of the largely Indian Mosquito coast region burned down several government offices in the area in response to the attack and issued a statement saying they wanted...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.
The political uncertainty is worrying Greece's international creditors as well as Greeks themselves, who have withdrawn hundreds of millions of euros from banks since the May 6 election.
Council of State head Panagiotis...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An expert panel monitoring U.N. sanctions on Iran has reported that Syria continues to be the main destination of illicit Iranian weapons, a Security Council diplomat said Wednesday.
The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the panel's report has not been released, said it identified three new illegal shipments, two involving Syria which was also the previous destination of a majority of Iranian arms shipments.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil is taking steps to lower the spiraling cost of accommodations during the United Nations' upcoming conference on sustainable development, the office of President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.
The statement said the steps could bring reductions of more than 60 percent for the cost of housing at the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, where authorities faced sharp criticism for skyrocketing hotel costs and shortcomings in available rooms....
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's official news agency says police have found a cocaine-processing lab near where a small Mexican-registered plane crashed over the weekend with $1.3 million in cash aboard.
Andina news agency says three people were arrested and a half ton of cocaine seized at the lab Wednesday.
Andina also says authorities assume the plane was carrying more than the $1.3 million that was found after it crashed, killing the pilot and co-...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 100 abandoned buildings in Rio de Janeiro are in such poor condition they are at risk of collapsing, the head of a regional engineering agency said Wednesday, a day after part of a two-story building crumbled in the Olympic city's colonial downtown.
No one was injured in Tuesday's incident, but it was a chilling reminder of the January collapse of three other downtown buildings, which left 17 people dead and five missing and raised...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's armed forces minister says approximately 10,500 army personnel will be deployed to help protect the London Olympics.
Responding to a written parliamentary question about how many army members will be on duty, Nick Harvey said Wednesday that under current plans, about 1,700 army reservists and 8,800 regular army personnel will be deployed during the games, which run from July 27 to August 12.
Britain previously had said that up...
PRAGUE (AP) — A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in recent elections.
Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, was meeting with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas on Wednesday to seek his support for "emergency measures" to protect the continent's Jewish communities from violent...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of red baby crabs are invading the Cayman Islands in a seasonal migration that residents say is unusually heavy this year.
The crabs are blanketing roads, scurrying across yards and scratching their way up homes and buildings in a process that scientists say will last about a month.
"People living in the coast will have them everywhere," said Tim Austin, deputy director of the Cayman Islands'...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Rio de Janeiro's regional engineering agency says the Olympic city has at least 100 abandoned buildings that run the risk of collapse.
Agostinho Guerreiro is president of Rio state's Crea engineering agency. He says the at-risk buildings are mostly concentrated in older districts, such as the city's colonial downtown. Others dot residential neighborhoods, mostly in the poorer northern district.
Guerreiro's comments...
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