As he marks one year in office, Peru's President Ollanta Humala vows to cut poverty and says he has not achieved all he had hoped.

The wife of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya rejects official accounts that his death was caused by a car accident.

Spain is evacuating all its aid workers and three other foreign nationals from refugee camps in Tindouf, western Algeria, due to "growing insecurity".

Cuban President Raul Castro, in an apparently impromptu address at the Revolution Day ceremony, says he is willing to hold talks with the US.

Romanians are voting in a referendum on whether to impeach centre-right President Traian Basescu, a vote which has caused EU alarm.

The bodies of missing US climbers Gil Weiss and Ben Horne have been found on Mount Palcaraju in the Peruvian Andes.

The head of the exiled opposition Syrian National Council calls for foreign states to arm rebel fighters, as government troops continue their assault on Aleppo.

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues his foreign tour with a visit to Israel, after a controversy-hit visit to London.