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Brazil, long proud of its push to develop renewable energy and wean itself off oil, has a bad case of fossil-fuel fever.
A judge has dismissed an environmental lawsuit challenging what is being billed as the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere in Carlsbad.
An infestation of the white striped fruit fly has been found in Southern California, marking the first detection of the Southeast Asian agricultural pest in the Western Hemisphere, state authorities said Friday.
The Organization of American States voted by acclamation on Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, overturning a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.
A San Diego judge has ruled against environmentalists who sued the California Coastal Commission for approving construction of the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere.
Colombia's senate has delayed a vote on scheduling a referendum that could let President Alvaro Uribe seek a third term.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. involvement with other Western Hemisphere nations needs to go beyond drug interdiction and military matters.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. record in the Western Hemisphere hasn't always been appreciated. But he says leaders at the Summit of the Americas would agree there is a new era in foreign policy.
The White House says it will participate in a $100 million program to help small entrepreneurs in Western Hemisphere.
President Barack Obama is extending a friendly hand — literally — to America's neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
President Barack Obama is announcing a $30 million initiative to increase security in the Caribbean as a summit of Western Hemisphere democracies starts.
President Barack Obama says there is no senior partner nor junior partner among countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Defending his brand of world politics, President Barack Obama said Sunday that he "strengthens our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States and making sure that the nation is a leader, not a lecturer, of democracy.
Cuba is a blank spot on the Internet map, the only country in the Western Hemisphere that lacks a fiber-optic connection to the rest of the world.
International donors pledged Tuesday to provide Haiti with $324 million over the next two years, well below the $900 million that the country's prime minister says the government needs over that period.
A group of U.S. congressional representatives have wrapped up a visit to Haiti to observe the humanitarian and political challenges facing the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.
Western Hemisphere nations agreed Wednesday to review labor and environmental practices in an effort to make sure that trade helps rather than hurts their countries.
Russia and Venezuelan officials on Friday signed agreements meant to bolster cooperation in the oil and gas industry, playing up energy ties between two nations trying to decrease U.S. influence around the world.
The Russian long-range bombers that have resumed missions into the Western Hemisphere nearly 20 years after the end of the Cold War are delivering a clear message: Russia wants to be seen as a global superpower once again.
Russia on Thursday downplayed the two strategic long-range bombers that flew to Venezuela in the first such flight since the Cold War, saying the bombers carried no live weapons — nuclear or otherwise — and would return to Russia next week.
Fidel Castro spent nearly five decades railing against even the tiniest of capitalist reforms in the Western Hemisphere's only communist country.
The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere.
Virtually all air travelers entering the United States after Jan. 23 will need to show passports — even U.S. citizens, the Homeland Security Department announced Wednesday.
Bolivia Crisis Summit for Latin American Leaders | guardian.co.ukLatin American leaders are to gather in Chile today in an attempt to end a political crisis in Bolivia that has seen more than a dozen people killed.
Fresh Violence in Bolivia Stokes Civil War Fears | AFPDeadly clashes in Bolivia Thursday stoked fears of further widespread unrest and possibly even civil war, amid a furor over the expulsion of the US ambassador to the country.
New findings suggest humans inhabited North America 40,000 years agoFootprints left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico's Valsequillo Basin about 40,000 years ago are evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer than previously confirmed, a new study suggests.
SkyandTelescope.com - Observing Highlights - February 20th's Eclipse of the MoonThe full Moon is going to get totally eclipsed on the night of February 20–21, putting on a gorgeous show as it glides through Earth's shadow. Skywatchers in nearly the entire Western Hemisphere will get an excellent view.
Creating Effective Incentives against terrorismHolding the country responsible would mean that in response to an attack we'd totally destroy their military bases, power plants, communication facilities and, if necessary, totally destroy their major cities.
The Pope Denounces Capitalism and Marxism - New York TimesPope Benedict XVI condemns abortion, Marxism, capitalism, homosexuality, and contraception often for reasons that are very strange.
Hezbollah builds a Western base in South America: They're getting closer!The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it, according to militia members, U.S.
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