In response to a suit by The Miami Herald, the Defense Department released Monday the names of 48 Guantánamo men deemed too dangerous to release but ineligible for trial.

Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks returned to the war court Monday for a week-long pretrial hearing, four months after defense lawyers discovered listening devices in their confidential meeting rooms.

Guantánamo's chief war crimes prosecutor predicts there will be just seven more war crimes trials after 9/11, USS Cole death cases.

The military has joined the fight against escalating crime in the Dominican Republic, leading some to question the effectiveness of the country’s 35,000-member police force.

Writers in an influential medical journal are urging a mutiny at the U.S. Navy base prison where, as of Thursday, Navy medics were tube-feeding 43 hunger strikers

Pentagon prosecutors and defense lawyers in the USS Cole death penalty case held the first closed hearing of the Obama war court Friday, a 78-minute secret session that excluded both the public and the accused al-Qaida terrorist.

An elderly Toronto man became the first Canadian convicted of sex crimes committed against children in Cuba after he pleaded guilty Friday to six counts, including little-used child sex tourism charges.

Judge orders first closed war court motions, locks out both accused and public in Guantánamo death penalty case.

The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite. Then there's her mega hit: Two-Legged Rat. Rife with tales of abusive husbands, impotent lovers and cheating boyfriends, these lyrics have made Francisca Viveros Barradas -- better known as Paquita la del Barrio -- much more than an artist. She has become a sociological phenomenon.

The illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are supposed to be fatal levels of lead in their blood. But they are alive -- many of them with eye problems, seizures, severe learning deficiencies and blank stares like Johan's.

They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front room.

An elderly Toronto man became the first Canadian convicted of sex crimes committed against children in Cuba after he pleaded guilty Friday to six counts, including little-used child sex tourism charges.

Five tries. Five failures.

An Australian swimmer is set to launch a historic attempt to cross the Florida Straits on Wednesday.

Relatives of the late Oswaldo Payá say they will settle in South Florida like other Cubans but have no plans to seek asylum.

With the worst access to safe drinking water in the hemisphere, Haiti is getting help in fixing its dilapidated water network and getting customers back on line.

Impoverished Haiti is not renowned for its bodybuilders. Only a handful of gyms exist - air-conditioned ones where the country's tiny elite and foreign aid workers work out, and outdoor ones used mostly by Haitians of modest means.

The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.

Haiti held a rare half-marathon Sunday with the participation of Hollywood actor Sean Penn's charity, which is sending the top five finishers to the ING New York City Marathon on Nov. 3.

Training programs help increase the number of women and increase professionalism in Haiti’s police force.

A soccer friendly at Sun Life Stadium is providing a boost to one man’s vision to help create a world-class stadium in one of Haiti’s most notorious slums.

Vice President Joe Biden says a one-day visit to Trinidad and Tobago, where he held meetings with leaders of the 15-member Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic, was fruitful but frank. The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago went so far as to say they were “brutal” at times.

Haitian President Michel Martelly once promised Haitians sweeping change but as he begins his third year in office, he’s changing his tune.

Celebrating its 15th year, music festival brings together Haitian fans and top entertainers to celebrate Haiti’s culture, and Flag Day.

Two years after his surprise return from seven years in exile, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide breaks his silence.

Pending approval, JetBlue Airways plans to offer flights to Haiti. Meanwhile, IBC Airways is teaming up with a Haitian start-up to expand its reach in the Haitian market.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Pope Francis swept away years of tension between the administration and the Roman Catholic Church on Monday during what Maduro called an “extraordinary” meeting.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked Pope Francis to canonize a doctor who tended to the poor in Caracas and is considered a saint already by many Venezuelans.

Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said Sunday.

Venezuelan authorities on Friday freed a judge who was arrested in 2009 after then-President Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings. Her case became a cause celebre for the opposition and international human rights groups.

Harried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help thanks to a young software developer.

President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday that he has put a halt to a plan to restrict sales of 20 basic food products in Venezuela's most populous state, a scheme critics had deemed rationing in disguise.

A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States in a gesture that could signal a thaw in tense relations between the two countries.

Thousands of Venezuelans protested against alleged fraud in the April presidential elections.

The four nations of the Pacific Alliance — Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru — are holding a summit in Colombia Thursday. Can the bloc turn into the regional juggernaut it aspires to be?

Vice President Joe Biden embarks on a hemispheric tour to discuss a broad list of issues in Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil

At the Pacific Alliance meeting in Colombia, the presidents of Costa Rica and Guatemala said they hoped to join the bloc within months

The four nations of the Pacific Alliance — Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru — are holding a summit in Colombia Thursday. Can the bloc turn into the regional juggernaut it aspires to be?

As coffee-leaf rust sweeps through Central America and Mexico, Colombian farmers are just beginning to emerge from their own battle with the blight. But will the lessons they’ve learned also be useful in Central America?

The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement marked its first anniversary Wednesday.

Laura Montoya dedicated her life working for Colombia’s indigenous groups and the marginalized. On Sunday, she was declared this Catholic nation’s first saint.

Hoping to wean people off bazuco, a crack-like drug, the city of Bogota will be experimenting with marijuana.

Griselda Blanco was believed to have ordered dozens of vicious drug-related slayings in the 1970s and 80s, and was convicted of the murder of a 2-year-old in Miami.

Mexican authorities have arrested a former university professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen.

A 4-year-old Bolivian girl who was unconscious for nearly three weeks after being mauled in the face and body by a Rottweiler is awake and ready to fly to Boston for reconstructive surgery, a doctor said Tuesday.

Defense lawyers in the 9/11 trial want access to reports from the Red Cross to the Pentagon to learn more about how their clients have been treated.

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