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IT is almost impossible to completely eliminate murders in Trinidad and Tobago, but acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams says the Police Service is doing everything in its power to bring the rate to such a level where it will no longer be a concern for citizens.

The Costa Rican government says it's still waiting for the Obama administration to explain why it launched the secret "Cuban Twitter" network from inside the Central American nation's borders despite warnings in 2009 that the plan could jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations.

In this April 1, 2014, file photo, ttudents gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba.

As the FBI spearheads national and international efforts to identify the victims of an admitted serial child molester, new details are emerging about the suspect, part-time Hilton Head Island resident William James Vahey.

The lawyer for U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross, who has been imprisoned for more than four years in Cuba, said Wednesday his client is certain he will go home in the next year, be it alive or dead.

While foreign aid is necessary to help countries get back on their feet in the immediate wake of a natural disaster, Notre Dame's Engineering2Empower program believes rebuilding needs to originate internally for a country to re-establish itself.

The University of Florida is opening a state-of-the-art lab in Haiti to train researchers to better understand and fight tuberculosis.

For the most part, video games are simply another form of entertainment like movies, television and books; rarely will a video game serve a purpose other than to provide a leisurely pastime.

The attack on Cookie is just one of seven that has occurred in recent weeks in an upscale neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua The attack on Cookie is just one of seven that has occurred in recent weeks in an upscale neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua A Golden Retriever named Teddie was shot and killed with a crossbow in an attack in Youngstown, Ohio ... (more)

A man holds a photograph of Peter Willcox during a protest for his release after being seized by the Russian coast guard on Sept.

The FBI asked for the public's help Tuesday to identify at least 90 potential victims of a suspected child predator who worked at 10 American and other international schools abroad for more than four decades before committing suicide last month in Minnesota.

William James Vahey, 64, killed himself in Luverne on March 21, the FBI said. That was two days after agents in Houston filed for a warrant to search a computer thumb drive that belonged to Vahey, a U.S. citizen with residences in London and Hilton Head Island, S.C. An employee of the American Nicaraguan School in Managua, where Vahey had recently ... (more)

The FBI is asking for the public's help to find victims of a suspected child predator who taught in private American schools overseas beginning in 1972.

Carlton Group of New York says it's hospitality division has been engaged to sell a rare, fully entitled, shovel ready, master planned development along the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica.

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Black market sales of USB sticks loaded with Hollywood blockbusters, pop music or football are booming in communist Cuba, where content-starved consumers are snapping them up to escape the dreary offerings of state-run media.

Frank Terpil says he once tried to hire two Cubans from Miami to assassinate an enemy of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi .

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After granting temporary permission for Cubans to celebrate Good Friday in 2012 and 2013, the Cuban government has decided grant a request made by Pope Benedict during his visit to the country in 2012 to make it a permanent official holiday.

Dr. Gayatri Reilly of the Retina Group of Washington performs an indirect ophthalmoscopy on a patient during a volunteer trip to the Turks and Caicos Islands.