REPUBLICANS 2016-IOWA

DES MOINES — Nearly a dozen Republican prospects for the 2016 presidential race lined up to appeal to party members in the early voting state of Iowa, agreeing to get tough with America's enemies but differing on how to do it. 

ARCTIC DRILLING

SEATTLE — Hundreds of activists in neoprene wetsuits and life jackets take to the water off Seattle in kayaks, canoes, paddleboards and other vessels to send the message that Royal Dutch Shell should cancel its plan to drill in the Arctic Ocean.

MEXICO-TROTSKY FILM

MEXICO CITY — It's a tale of love, betrayal and history's most famous murder by ice pick. "El Elegido" ("The Chosen"), being filmed now in the Mexican capital, takes on the plot to kill Soviet dissident Leon Trotsky. By Berenice Bautista..

GUATEMALA-CORRUPTION

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalans jam onto the capital's streets to voice anger over corruption that permeates the government, demanding jail time for the guilty and calling for President Otto Perez Molina to resign. 

CUBA-MIGRANTS ADRIFT

HAVANA — A group of migrants from Cuba who had been stuck in a legal limbo aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship after they were detained at sea are being allowed to return to their homeland, the Cuban government says. 

GUYANA-ELECTIONS

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A retired army general is sworn in as Guyana's new president after his multi-ethnic opposition coalition won the South American country's elections and ended a 23-year reign by the People's Progressive Party. .

MEXICO-US GIRL SEIZED

FRESNO, Texas — The joyful tears shed by a Texas woman and her long-missing daughter after they return from Mexico signal the end of an eight-year cross-border custody case that a few weeks earlier mistakenly sent a Mexican girl to the U.S. against her will.