Tickets for nearly two-thirds of the World Cup matches were sold out within hours of FIFA opening the final online sales phase on Tuesday.
Brazil's Corinthians Arena stadium at Sao Paulo, which will host the opening match of the FIFA World Cup, was officially delivered on Tuesday, but in an incomplete state.
The Brazilian government has rejected claims that the pubic cost of staging this year's World Cup has impacted funding for health and education.
Mexican authorities announced Monday they have captured kingpin of a drug trafficking gang believed to be behind most of the violence in its Pacific coastal state of Guerrero.
The Chilean government has managed to identify the original place of a devastating fire that has ravaged the port city of Valparaiso over the past few days.
China's top legislator Zhang Dejiang held talks with visiting President Henrique Eduardo Alves of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies here on Monday, and both agreed to develop stronger parliamentary exchanges.
A passenger bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames, killing at least 36 people Sunday in southern Mexico, the Veracruz state government reported.
A large forest fire raging in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso has killed at least four people and destroyed 500 homes, officials said on Sunday. Thousands of people have been evacuated, including more than 200 female inmates at a prison.
The death toll from the massive forest fire in Chile's port city of Valparaiso has risen to 16, while more than 500 houses destroyed and 10,000 people evacuated since the fire broke out Saturday in the hills surrounding Valparaiso, authorities said Sunday.
The IOC executive board and summer sports federations raised the stakes over the critical delays threatening the first games in South America
More than 2,000 workers at Rio de Janeiro's 2016 Olympic venues remained on strike Friday, and the city's mayor warned that the workers will have to make up for lost time.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hosts opposition leaders at the start of mediated talks intended to stem two months of political unrest that has killed dozens in the OPEC nation.
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