Monday, 09 June 2014 09:36
![A Brazilian court has ordered the worker's union to pay a hefty fine for each day of the strike [AFP]](/images/stories/americas/south/sao-paulo.jpg)
Brazil's police have clashed in Sao Paulo with striking subway workers who are continuing to stay away from work despite a court declaring their strike to be illegal.
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Sunday, 08 June 2014 13:38
A Brazilian court has ruled that a subway strike that has caused traffic mayhem in Sao Paulo, raising fears of transport chaos at this week's World Cup kick-off, is illegal.
Sunday, 08 June 2014 13:26
Colombia's government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have agreed to set up a truth commission that addresses the deaths of thousands of people in five decades of the country's conflict.
Sunday, 08 June 2014 13:20
Colombia's leftist FARC rebels have declared a ceasefire from June 9 to 30, a period that will cover a runoff presidential election being contested mainly over how to end five decades of war with the fighters.
Sunday, 08 June 2014 11:21
![The FBI said threats have been made against Jani and Bob Bergdahl [AFP]](/images/stories/americas/us/b/bergdahl-family.jpg)
The family of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl have received death threats after his release from five years of Taliban captivity, according to US authorities.
Saturday, 07 June 2014 11:45
Guatemala's former police chief Erwin Sperisen has received a life sentence in Switzerland for the killings of seven inmates committed years ago in the Central American country.
Friday, 06 June 2014 10:45
Police in Brazil's biggest city Sao Paulo have used batons and fired tear gas to break the subway strikes by the protesting workers and commuters that have caused chaos in the country's economic capital, according to reports.
Friday, 06 June 2014 10:19
Hillary Clinton favoured arming Syria's rebels early in that country's civil war but was overruled by President Barack Obama, the former secretary of state said in her new memoir.
Friday, 06 June 2014 09:48
Canadian police said they had arrested the 24-year-old man who they suspect shot dead three police officers and wounded two more in the eastern city of Moncton, ending a massive manhunt.
Friday, 06 June 2014 09:35
Police in Haiti have fired volleys of tear gas to break up a march by demonstrators calling for President Michel Martelly to step down and new elections to be held.
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