Venezuela

Venezuelans head to polls Sunday to choose Chávez rival

Venezuelans head to the polls today to choose the opposition candidate who will take on Chávez for the...

Venezuela

Venezuela’s Capriles favored in Sunday’s primary election

Argentina: UK sent nuclear sub to Falklands

Argentina said Friday it has information that Britain sent a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic ...

Argentine rights workers to Spain: Lay off Garzon

The president of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo said Friday that Spain's pro...

CUBA

Sen. Feinstein singles out Cuba as potential drug smuggling point

A California senator who chairs a congressional caucus on international drug trafficking warned last week t...

Famous Spain judge convicted of misusing authority

Suit challenges new Guantánamo mail rule

A lawyer for a Guantánamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison co...

COAST GUARD

Bigger, faster cutter steams into Miami

The Bernard C. Webber is the Coast Guard’s new Fast Response Cutter, which is going to replace the a...

GOP report questions Guantánamo releases

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror...

Antonio Jorge

Funeral services for Antonio Jorge, expert on Cuban economy, FIU professor

Funeral services will be Thursday for Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Miami-based economist who was...

Environment

Guantánamo -- the place with the prison camps -- is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo ...

Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel

Iran's supreme leader has urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamist militant group's ...

Al-Qaida executes 2 Yemenis suspected of US links

A security official says al-Qaida-linked militants have publicly executed two Yemenis suspected of collabor...

France's far-right leader attempts image change

Marine Le Pen has purged the old guard from her father's extreme-right National Front party and is reaching...

Hamas strongman in Gaza rejects unity deal

Senior Hamas figures in the Gaza Strip have harshly criticized the Islamic militant movement's exiled leade...

Turkish jets hit suspected rebel targets in Iraq

Turkey's military says warplanes have bombed suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.

Al-Qaida urges Muslims to help Syrian rebels

Al-Qaida's chief has called on Muslims from other countries to support rebels in Syria seeking to overthrow...

Militants decry attacks against Pakistani military

Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters to honor an agreement not to attack the Pakistani mili...

Officials: Gaza man killed in Israeli airstrike

Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed a security guard in the Gaza Strip.

Gunmen kill provincial judge, child in Afghanistan

Gunmen burst into a family home of a provincial judge in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and his niece in ...

Venezuelans: Will Chavez's challenger pose threat?

Malaysia deports Saudi accused of prophet insult

Malaysian authorities on Sunday deported a young Saudi journalist accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad...

2012 FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

Tallahassee tax cuts put squeeze on cities

As the Florida Legislature pushes business-friendly tax cuts, local governments are being left with the bi...

Political scene

Miami-Dade Commission takes back strip mall funding

Miami-Dade commissioners last week took back $3 million in funding they had approved last month to renovate...

2012 FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

Lawmakers singling out poor or promoting self-responsibility?

Critics charge the Legislature is targeting poor people — from requiring cash welfare recipients to ...

REDISTRICTING

Democrats, independents tilt Miami’s congressional districts

Democratic and independent voters have diluted GOP voting clout in 3 Miami congressional districts held by ...

Political scene

Miami-Dade commissioner tries to change Head Start vote

When Miami-Dade commissioners voted last month to outsource the county’s Head Start program for pre-...

Political scene

Portion of Miami Commission meeting takes place en español

Change for seniors can be a challenge, and their worries about a new company providing transportation servi...

Maine GOP chairman says Romney wins caucuses

Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing h...

Capitol Buzz: Quiet day expected in Tallahassee

It’s a light-day at the Capitol: Both the House and the Senate are not in session, and there are no ...

2012 FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

Bill to make USF Polytechnic state’s 12th university draws debate

Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the...

REDISTRICTING

Before the ink dries on Florida’s redistricting maps, lawsuits fly

Moments after legislators take the final vote in their congressional and legislative maps, the Democratic P...

Miami-Dade County

Group submits ballot proposal for Miami-Dade Commission term limits — as do 2 commissioners

Miami Voice filed proposed wording for a Miami-Dade charter amendment to impose term limits on county commi...