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Major candidates call for halt to Haiti election

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti's election ended in discord Sunday, with nearly all the major presidential candidates calling for the vote to be voided over fraud and U.N. peacekeepers lamenting "numerous incidents that marred the elections."

Hospital train heals Argentina's poor

LAVALLE, Argentina (AFP) – Children from this desperately poor village in northern Argentina rushed to welcome a special hospital train rolling into town, their only chance to receive specialized care for a year....

Canada's anti-polygamy laws go on trial

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – A Canadian court opened hearings on Monday into whether anti-polygamy laws violate constitutional protections of religious freedom....

Cuba to free political prisoner who refused exile

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will soon release one of 13 political prisoners who have rejected a government deal to leave the country in exchange for freedom, a family member said on Saturday....

Parties deadlocked in new Canadian opinion poll

TORONTO (Reuters) – There's little to separate Canada's two main political parties in an opinion poll released on Thursday, making the outcome of a new federal election far too close to call....

Confusion, fear as Haiti camps evacuate for storm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – For nearly 10 months, more than 1 million people in Haiti's earthquake camps have been walking a precarious line: Trying to get out and find good homes without losing their tents and the possessions they still have....

Cholera outbreak spreads toward Haiti's capital

ST. MARC, Haiti – An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital....

Russia to build nuclear power station in Venezuela

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia agreed on Friday to build Venezuela's first nuclear power station after talks between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Hugo Chavez in the Kremlin....

Canada sheds jobs, rate hike seen even less likely

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's economy unexpectedly lost 6,600 jobs in September, a surprise development that further reduced already slim chances the Bank of Canada will raise rates again later this month....

Chile mine engineers weigh risks of encasing shaft

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – It's the nightmare scenario: The earth shifts just as a miner is being pulled to safety, jamming his escape capsule somewhere between the surface and the underground cavern where 33 men have waited for two months to be rescued....