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UN report questions police, highlights violence in Haiti
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The United Nations issued a scathing report on Tuesday that accused Haitian police of not protecting an impoverished neighborhood from corrupt officers and gang leaders they say shot at people and set fire to homes and cars in a recent three-day attack. The report urged local...
Mexico City to tighten school safety after girl, 7, killed
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City officials said Tuesday they will tighten rules for children leaving government schools on their own after a 7-year-old girl was found murdered over the weekend. In Mexico City, even grade-school students often simply walk out of school after classes to meet parents waiting...
Baylor probe clears ex-chairman of racist, sexist comments
WACO, Texas (AP) — Law firm investigators hired by Baylor University concluded the former chairman of the university's board of regents did not make racist, lewd and anti-Semitic comments during a 2014 meeting in Mexico. The allegations against Richard Willis surfaced in late 2018 in federal court filings...
Brazil oil workers at war with Petrobras in massive strike
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian oil workers and oil giant Petrobras were locked in a power struggle Tuesday over the company's privatization plans, with the union saying thousands of employees are on an indefinite strike. A few hundred people gathered Tuesday afternoon outside the headquarters of...
US border clampdown forces Venezuelan teen into Mexico alone
HOUSTON (AP) — A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father. The teenager, who is being identified by only her first name, Branyerly,...
US sanctions Russian oil trading firm for role in Venezuela
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced sanctions Tuesday on a Russian state-controlled brokerage that has helped the Venezuelan government skirt an American oil embargo and enabled President Nicolas Maduro to keep his grip on power in the South American country. Administration officials said...
A rare miss for Walmart to end the year
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart reported disappointing fourth-quarter profits and sales after a sluggish and shortened holiday shopping season. Violent social protests in Chile, where there are hundreds of Walmart stores, cut into international sales. Walmart also delivered a weak profit forecast for the year and...
With steady play, Scottie Scheffler going places in a hurry
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Most satisfying to Scottie Scheffler in his rookie season on the PGA Tour is his steady, consistent play. It has him going places in a hurry. One year ago, Scheffler missed the cut in a Korn Ferry Tour event in Florida and was No. 830 in the world. Now he is in his first World Golf...
Officials search for small plane that crashed near Dominica
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities on the French island of Guadeloupe said Tuesday that they were looking for the remains of a small plane that apparently crashed at sea near the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica over the weekend. The Piper PA-28 was carrying four people, and crews have recovered...
Peru gas workers unearth centuries of history in Lima's soil
LIMA, Peru (AP) — For nearly two decades, workers for a company building gas lines across Peru’s capital have found themselves unearthing a treasure trove of history. On one recent afternoon, a team came across four burials accompanied by ceramics from a pre-Incan civilization. Two years earlier,...
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