Mayan Indians End Guatemalan Dam Seizure
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PUEBLO VIEJO, Guatemala  - Mayan Indians ended a  siege of Guatemala's largest dam on Wednesday after the  government agreed to consider demands they be compensated for  land and lives lost in massacres when it was built.
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Six foreign workers seized from a Nigerian oil facility operated by U.S. energy giant Chevron on May 1 were all freed on Saturday, the rebel group that abducted them said.
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Hundreds of federal police officers packed up their tents Saturday and marched out of this troubled Mexican city's central square, ending their seven-week occupation to put down a lengthy protest by leftists that had left nine people dead.
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Fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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KATMANDU, Nepal -- The government and Maoist rebels signed a peace agreement yesterday to end a 10-year insurgency, marking the start of an uncertain political era in this Himalayan nation, the world's last Hindu monarchy.
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Members of a group of tribal Iraqi leaders kidnapped in Baghdad have been freed, a spokesman says.
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Supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday ended the street protest that clogged the heart of the capital for nearly seven weeks, but they vowed to find other ways to resist the incoming conservative president.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting inmates at an Argentine prison freed all their hostages yesterday, ending a daylong siege that left eight people dead.
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Police ended a day-long siege at a mosque in Indian Kashmir late Monday, rescuing the hostages and shooting dead the gunmen who were holding them, the Press Trust of India reported.
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Guatemalan police rescued a two-month-old boy who had been stolen from his home and arrested four people who were allegedly preparing the baby for illegal adoption, an official said.
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By TIM PAYNE  ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - A land-clearing project in southern Antigua is threatening a unique ancient settlement where Arawak Indians lived from roughly 500 B.C. until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, an archaeologist said Monday.
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French-backed government forces regained control of the last rebel-held town in Central African Republic on Sunday, dealing a fatal blow to a weeks-old rebellion in the country's north, a presidential spokesman said.
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A ceremony to honour those who died in Chile's 1973 military coup ends in violent  clashes.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that seized a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo agreed  to surrender on Tuesday, police said.
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PARIS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The cancellation of a gold mining contract in  French Guiana has placed the spotlight on another project that is  continuing in Guatemala, at disastrous cost to local people and  the environment.
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Politics: 6 September 2004, Monday. Two women and a man from Bulgaria have drowned in a dam near the Spanish town of Mekinenanza, the province of Zaragoza, when their boat toppled over and cast all 13 people on ...
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A powerful shook Guatemala on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.