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Fishermen look out to sea as hurricane Norbert approaches Puerto San Carlos in Mexico's southern Baja California, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Hurricane Norbert is expected to hit land early Saturday.
Guillermo Arias/AP Photo

Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico's Baja California

Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.

  • Gunmen kill 11 in northern Mexican bar

    Gunmen opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found shot dead on the side of a highway in two separate attacks, police said Friday.

  • USVI jury finds 3 guilty in killing of Pa. man

    A jury on Friday found three men guilty in the killing of a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man outside a St. John bar last year.

  • Colombia orders arrest of ex-general

    Prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a second retired general in the disappearance of 12 people during the Colombian army's bloody 1985 retaking of the Palace of Justice from leftist rebels.

  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during the U.S-Brazil CEO Forum in Sao Paulo, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. President Lula called or a new push to clinch a global free trade agreement, saying it's one of the most important steps governments can now take to make sure the global economy doesn't descend into chaos.

    Brazil wants its say in new financial order

    Brazil's president said Friday that emerging market nations like Brazil must have a strong say in developing strict international rules for financial institutions.

  • Investigators mill around the crime scene which is the house of slain Swedish couple couple Anna Sundsval, 62, and Oke Olsoon, 73, in the Bon Accord area of western Tobago, the smaller island of the twin island Caribbean nation Trinidad & Tobago, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Authorities say the couple were hacked to death Oct. 9 in their villa on the normally placid Caribbean island of Tobago. Senior Police Superintendent Nadir Khan said Oct. 10 that the motive for the attack appeared to be robbery but that the incident is still under investigation.

    Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago; 1 arrest

    A man was arrested Friday as a suspect in the slaying of a Swedish couple who were found hacked to death in their home in a tourist district of the normally placid southern Caribbean island of Tobago.

  • Brokers work on the floor of the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange in Sao Paulo, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Brazil's main stock index plummeted more than 10 percent in early trading Friday after steep declines in Asia, Europe. Other Latin America markets fell sharply as well.

    Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America

    The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class.

  • A man walks past a closed McDonald's restaurant at a mall in San Cristobal, Venezuela, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Venezuelan government has ordered nearly all McDonald's restaurants in the country closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books.

    Venezuela tax agency closes McDonald's temporarily

    The Venezuelan government has ordered nearly all McDonald's restaurants in the country closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books.

  • Brazilian secret police head guilty of torture

    A Brazilian court says the former head of Sao Paulo's secret police was responsible for torturing three people during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s, apparently the first time a former high-ranking officer has been found guilty of crimes in the military regime.

  • IDB approves $400 million loan for Panama Canal

    The Panama Canal expansion project is getting a $400 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank. Panama Canal Authority administrator Alberto Aleman said Thursday that the IDB's approval of the loan demonstrates confidence in the project ``despite the world financial crisis.''

  • Grenade attack kills 5 state police in Mexico

    Five state police officers were killed in the western Mexican state of Jalisco by grenade-lobbing gunmen who fired more than 800 bullets in the attack, authorities said Thursday.

  • Peru's cabinet offers to resign over scandal

    Sixteen Cabinet ministers offered their resignations to Peruvian President Alan García on Thursday in the wake of an oil-kickback scandal.

  • Peru says 19 killed in rebel bomb attack

    Shining Path rebels ambushed a column of military trucks in Peru's southeastern mountains with a bomb and gunfire, the military high command said Friday, killing 12 soldiers and seven civilians in the deadliest rebel attack in years.

  • An American Airlines plane is parked at Miami International Airport after its pilot, crew and passengers survived heavy turbulence during their flight from Argentina on Friday morning. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units seen on the right are transporting some passengers and crew injured.

    Turbulence injures 8 on Argentina to Miami flight

    Violent turbulence experienced aboard American Airlines Flight 908 just half an hour before landing at Miami International Airport Friday morning sent six people to local hospitals.

  • Residents line up to buy fish at a public market in Havana, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables citizens can buy at farmers' markets after two hurricanes wiped out more than 30 percent of the island's crops last month.

    In food crisis, Cuba limits sales so all can eat

    Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough - barely - to go around.

  • Mexico auctions off more foreign reserves for peso

    Mexico's central bank has auctioned off another US$3 billion in foreign reserves, its third auction of the day in an increasingly aggressive bid to push the peso stronger. In all, the bank sold off $6.4 billion.

  • UNHCR calls on governments to raise refugee funds

    Countries spending billions on financial rescue packages should spend a few extra "peanuts" to fund aid programs for those worst hit by the global financial crisis, the U.N. refugee chief said Friday.

  • Brazil stocks plunge 10 percent in early trading

    Brazil's main stock index plummeted more than 10 percent in early trading Friday after steep declines in Asia, Europe. Other Latin America markets fell sharply as well.

  • Map shows the projected paths of Hurricane Norbert and Tropical Storm Odile; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101.6 mm

    Hurricane warning issued ahead of Norbert

    A hurricane warning has been issued for the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula as a weakened Hurricane Norbert churns in the Pacific.

  • This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Norbert taken at 3:30 a.m. EDT Friday Oct. 10, 2008. Norbert is centered about 315 miles (510 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph). The hurricane is heading north-northwest but is expected to turn north-northeast during the day and head toward Mexico's coast.

    Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico's Baja California

    Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.


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