Russia's president met with ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro on Friday, winding up a visit aimed at freshening relations with his country's old Cold War ally and raising Moscow's profile ...

President Alvaro Uribe saidTuesday that he had approved aFrench mission to try to meetwith hostages held by leftist rebels. Among the hostages is Ingrid Betancourt, a politician whois gravely ill.

Hundreds of African immigrants took their anger over the alleged mafia killing of six Africans to the streets on Friday, hurling rocks and smashing windows in a town north of ...