
World - Latin America
AFP - Suspected "hit teams" from Mexico's powerful Juarez Cartel killed two Americans and a Mexican man linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez in coordinated weekend shootings that marked an ominous turn in the drug war ravaging northern Mexico.
AP - Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man. Three young children survived, although two suffered wounds.
AP - A power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness Sunday night, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude quake.
AFP - Hitmen working for Mexico's Juarez drug cartel were believed to be behind the assassination of a US consular employee here, the government of Chihuahua state has said.
AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon has made his second visit to Haiti since the country's killer earthquake in January to hear the formidable challenges - and progress made by - aid groups.
AFP - A vast area of earthquake-hit Chile, including the capital city of Santiago, was plunged into darkness Sunday by a massive blackout, the National Emergency Office said.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless.
Reuters - A blackout affecting much of Chile is due to a problem with a 500 kilowatt transformer, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter told local media on Sunday.
Reuters - Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate and President Barack Obama expressed outrage at the attack.
AP - A U.S. missionary who was released from a Haiti jail last week has returned to her home in Idaho after spending several days recuperating in Florida.
AP - Three people with ties to the American consulate in a drug-plagued Mexican city were killed in a drive-by shooting, a U.S. official said Sunday.
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.
Reuters - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
AFP - Drug-related violence left 17 people dead in Mexico's southern Guerrero state, including four people who were decapitated, authorities said.
Reuters - Thirteen people were killed in and around the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco early on Saturday in apparent drug-related violence, with four victims found beheaded, security officials said.