Wisconsin election officials on Friday accepted a request from Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate in the Nov. 8 presidential election, for a recount of the ballots in a state that was crucial to Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton.
Costa Rica suffered Friday for the first time in its history a direct hit by a hurricane, which made landfall while taking an unprecedented route from the Caribbean across to the Pacific Ocean.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri and several members of his government welcomed Friday, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the families of female murder victims, and told them that putting an end to this scourge is now "state policy."
Thousands of taxi drivers held protests in this capital and other Chilean cities on Friday to demand that authorities force ride-sharing apps Uber and Cabify to operate under the same regulations as cabs.
Presidential hopeful Jill Stein's fund-raising push to pay for recounts in three rust-belt states that were crucial to Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election has already exceeded its original target, the Green Party said Friday.
Representatives of the 27 countries that make up the Latin American Energy Organization, or Olade, underscored the need to promote sustainable development in the region at a meeting here Friday.
Wailing and pounding their chests in grief, a dozen women clad in mourning black gathered around a tomb in the massive cemetery in Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf.
Chilean state-owned copper giant Codelco, the world largest producer of the red metal, turned a profit for the second straight quarter but still posted an $18 million loss for the first nine months of 2016.
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama received Friday, together with her nephews and the two family dogs, Bo and Sunny, the Christmas tree that will be displayed in the Blue Room of the White House this year.
Russia's defense ministry has presented the Ukrainian military attaché with a note of protest in reaction to Ukraine's plans to conduct training launches of missiles over Crimea next week.
Four people died in Costa Rica during the devastation of Hurricane Otto, whose epicenter has now moved into the Pacific Ocean, while Nicaragua's Cardenas municipality on the Costa Rican border awoke Friday morning unable to contact the outside world, without electricity and with overflowing rivers.
Controversy has broken out in France after a dozen conservative mayors asked for HIV-prevention posters featuring gay men kissing and embracing to be taken down in their towns, sparking accusations of homophobia.
