Mexican security forces hunted early Monday for drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as authorities investigated whether he had received inside help to escape prison through a tunnel under his cell's shower.
The Colombian government reached a major de-escalation agreement with leftist FARC guerrillas on Sunday, agreeing for the first time to reduce counterinsurgency operations in the decades-long armed conflict, diplomats in Havana said.
The ceiling of a Russian military barracks collapsed in Siberia on Monday, causing four stories to crumble and killing 23 young men trapped inside.
New York City hosted its first parade supporting people with disabilities on Sunday, with more than 3,000 participants heading up Broadway.
Prosecutors indicted Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation and seized his assets, putting further pressure on him to resign.
Saudi-led air raids killed 21 civilians in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Monday, medics and relatives of the victims said, two days after the start of a United Nations-brokered humanitarian truce that Riyadh does not recognize. "Three missiles targeted the neighborhood, destroying 15 houses and killing 21 people and wounding 45 others," said one resident.
A selfie campaign by Myanmar students promoting cross-cultural friendships has become a rare counterpoint to anti-Muslim rhetoric from hard-line Buddhist monks.
The cries of street vendors have become the soundtrack to Zimbabwe's ailing economy as increasing numbers of the unemployed try to eke out a living, leaving shopkeepers - and the taxman - poorer.
Greeks accused Germany of trying to humiliate them by making tougher demands for a new bailout deal as the country's fate in the eurozone hung in the balance ahead of a meeting of European ministers in Brussels on Sunday.
Libyan political leaders reached a new version of a UN-brokered peace deal on Saturday, putting pressure on the Islamist-led Tripoli leadership to build a unity government in hopes of ending the country's chaos.
Kosovo police arrested on Saturday five alleged terrorists suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State.
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman has escaped from a maximum-security prison for the second time in 14 years, authorities said Sunday, dealing an embarrassing blow to the government.
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