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The Canadian currency was on course for a fifth consecutive decline, the longest streak of losses since dropping for six straight weeks through Dec.

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet , Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco and Mexico's Finance Minister Agustin Carstens attend the opening ceremony of the Second Meeting of Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean.

Gov. Mark Sanford heavily mixed business and pleasure during a three-day trip in 2008 to Argentina to visit his lover, records released by the South Carolina Department of Commerce show.

Two events at the opposite ends of Latin America last Sunday seemed liked isolated events.

In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009, a live pigeon carrying a makeshift backpack containing a cell phone is shown in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.

Brazilian officials say they've identified the remains of 21 more people who were aboard an Air France jet when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean last month.

China is willing to make joint efforts with Brazil to boost bilateral strategic partnership, a senior official of the Communist Party of China said in Brasilia Wednesday.

Terrestar-1, the largest and most powerful commercial satellite to date, was successfully launched into geostationary orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the spaceport in French Guiana.

A supporter of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya throws rocks at police during clashes near the presidential residency in Tegucigalpa, Monday June 29, 2009.

THE STAGE seems set for a lively debate and, hopefully, a mature Caricom approach in seeking a practical resolution to the current emotional sparrings involving Barbados' "removal" of illegal nationals of the Community-the majority of whom happen to be Guyanese-under a new immigration policy.

Falklands : Summary of Executive Council Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network 01.07.2009 Executive Council has taken the decision to close Stanley Dairy Summary of Executive Council Meeting 25th June 2009 This month's meeting started with the consideration of a Project Initiation Document for a new port in the .

French investigators on Thursday will present their initial findings into what caused Air France Flight 447 to drop out of the sky in the middle of the Atlantic a month ago, prompting one of history's most challenging plane crash investigations.

Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 2:52 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 2:52 p.m. The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America.

Argentina's transportation secretary has become the second Cabinet member to quit since President Cristina Fernandez's party suffered a crushing defeat in congressional elections.

A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.

The body of one of the Irish doctors killed in the Air France plane crash last month has been recovered.

Airbus is expected to face calls to ground its worldwide fleet of long-range airliners tomorrow when French accident investigators issue their first account of what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash off Brazil on June 1. Air France plane broke up in midair Air France flight faced rudder problem It is believed that the accident bureau will ...

Spain and Uruguay on Tuesday reported their first deaths from swine flu, as Canada expressed fears that young people were particularly vulnerable to the virus.

Authorities in Argentina's capital and Buenos Aires province declared health emergencies and extended school vacations Tuesday as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35.