Arrests questioned in slaying of union leader in El Salvador
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USULUTAN, El Salvador -- Police say an angry mother-in-law was behind the slaying of a popular US union leader who was shot in the back days before he was to meet with members of Central America's growing labor movement.
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Police in Haiti detained a priest on suspicion of links to violence, while ex-soldiers who carried out a bloody revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said reinforcements were headed for the capital to help put down clashes that have killed at least 48 people.
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San Salvador -- At least 31 prisoners died and 23 were wounded yesterday during clashes between gang members and other inmates in El Salvador&#39;s largest prison, officials said.
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AMSTERDAM: Police have detained another suspect in relation to the killing of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh. They have also arrested two other men who are accused of calling for the beheading of an anti-immigration politician.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labour leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened countrywide strike by oil-industry workers in Africa's largest petroleum exporter, his union said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Police in Haiti detained a priest on suspicion of links to violence, while ex-soldiers who carried out a bloody revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said reinforcements were headed for the capital to help put down
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Authorities on Sunday said they re-arrested the alleged mastermind of a 1997 massacre of 45 men, women and children in southern Mexico.
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A woman in police custody being questioned after a woman was found killed and a fetus cut from her womb, officials said Friday.
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Honduras&#39; authorities have identified one of the suspects in the massacre of 28 people taking place on Dec. 23 at a bus stop in San Pedro Sula, north Honduras.
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A fifth Guatemalan policeman is held over the killing of three Salvadorean politicians near Guatemala City.
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Police prepare to question a man arrested in connection with the killing of a former miner on his doorstep.
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Venezuelan police arrest two men in connection with the killing last week of state prosecutor Danilo Anderson.
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday they had arrested a man in northern Mexico in the weekend killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar.
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Police in Ireland question two men arrested in Dublin in connection with the murder of the daughter of Malawi's chief justice.
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Four Guatemalan policemen are held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians in Guatemala City.
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Rival prisoners fought each other with knives and sticks Wednesday at a San Salvador jail, leaving at least 23 people dead and more than 24 others injured, police said.
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A battle between prisoners wielding knives and sticks leaves at least 23 dead in San  Salvador, police say.