Americas Brief

Chevron said Friday that it had no intention of apologizing for the environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest for which an Ecuadorean court ruled it responsible.

The missionary couple had been living in Mexico since 1979, preaching and founding a Baptist church in the town of Santiago, where they lived.

Three people were formally charged in connection with an unsuccessful plot to smuggle Saadi el-Qaddafi into Mexico, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

The general and his men are accused of carrying out killings, torture and drugs and arms trafficking in Chihuahua State.

The explosion killed at least seven people and left 75 wounded and officials blamed the rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for the attack.

What British officials call Prince William’s routine mission is stirring interest at home and abroad as the 30th anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands approaches.

A judge said the statute of limitations had run out on the human rights charges for Jean-Claude Duvalier, but not on the accusations of misappropriation of public funds.