 AFP - Tropical Storm Gustav took a turn on Thursday, moving south as it crept toward Jamaica in a new track that could spare the hurricane-scarred US city of New Orleans.
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 AFP - Venezuela has raked in 4.3 billion dollars from a tax on windfall oil profits it started collecting from state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela in mid-April, President Hugo Chavez said.
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 AP - Mexico's Supreme Court was poised Wednesday to uphold legal abortion in the capital despite deep opposition elsewhere in the heavily Catholic country.
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AP - Cuba has ordered jailed punk rocker Gorki Aguila, an outspoken critic of Fidel Castro and the communist government, to stand trail on Friday for "social dangerousness," a charge that could carry up to four years in prison.
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 Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav pulled
away from Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after
killing 23 people and threatened to become a major hurricane
aimed at New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields.
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AP - Argentina will meet all its debt obligations in 2008 and 2009, its Cabinet chief said Wednesday, addressing investor concerns that political tensions could reduce its budget surplus and slow its debt payments.
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 AFP - The leftwing former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, on Wednesday met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas and agreed to continue to act as an advisor on municipal matters.
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 AP - Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 22 people in the Caribbean. Its track pointed toward the U.S. Gulf coast, including Louisiana where Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc three years ago.
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Reuters - Suspected drug hitmen attacked a
group of sleeping soldiers with grenades in central Mexico,
sparking a battle that killed three gunmen, a state attorney
general's office said on Wednesday.
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 AFP - Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital.
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 AP - Lawmakers loyal to President Hugo Chavez want to allow the nationalization of fuel distribution, the government's latest move to bring Venezuela's economy under increased state control.
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 AFP - Hurricane Gustav slammed into Haiti, killing at least five as it lashed the desperately poor Caribbean nation with powerful winds and heavy rain, just days behind deadly Tropical Storm Fay.
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AP - Three decapitated bodies were found Tuesday in an empty lot on the eastern outskirts of Tijuana, the Mexican attorney general's office said.
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 AP - A Cuban opposition leader said Tuesday she has filed a criminal complaint against the communist government for airing on state television evidence it collected by bugging her phone, going through her garbage and secretly filming her.
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AP - A strong earthquake has shaken central Peru, causing people to flee buildings in the jungle city of Pucallpa but inflicting no major damage.
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 Reuters - Archeologists working at Peru's Huaca
Pucllana ruins pulled a mummy from a tomb on Tuesday, thought
to be from the ancient Wari culture that flourished before the
Incas.
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AP - Heavy rains have killed at least 50 horses at a Mexico City equestrian club and the 71-year-old watchman who tried to save them, officials said Tuesday.
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 AP - Forecasters say tropical storm Julio has weakened to a tropical depression after drenching the central section of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
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 AP - Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday.
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 Reuters - Honduras, long considered an ally
of the United States in Central America, joined on Monday a
Latin American pact that has been pushed by Venezuela as a way
to contain U.S. influence in the region.
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