The Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has closed to "review its security posture," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Thursday in a statement.

The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed.

Every time the automatic doors at the outpatient ward of Islamabad's main hospital slid open, they revealed a thick white mist lingering inside.

Arab leaders gave the Palestinian Authority Thursday the green light for direct talks with Israel, a move that prompted the Israeli prime minister to say his country is ready for the face-to-face talks as well.

Mexican federal authorities arrested 62 police officers in the state of Baja California Thursday suspected of ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, the state's attorney general said, according to the state-run Notimex news agency.

The top U.S. military officer said that the founder of WikiLeaks was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan.

More than 100 people have died of cholera in Cameroon, according to Joseph Beti Assomo, a regional governor.

Afghanistan's president said he is incensed that leaked secret U.S. military documents include the names of Afghan informants.

At least 90 people have been killed since Wednesday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan, a provincial minister told CNN.

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More than 90 animals in Uganda have died since June from a vicious strain of anthrax, officials said Thursday.

Eighty people were killed late Tuesday in a ferry accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Attacks on military posts in Iraq claimed at least five lives Thursday.

French prosecutors said Thursday a woman admitted giving birth to and killing eight babies in northern France. The woman's husband had no idea what she had done, a prosecutor said. FULL STORY l PRESS CONFERENCE

An Indonesian woman was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday for aiding and harboring terrorists accused of suicide bombings and other attacks.

A cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin will open for business next week for the first time in 23 years, following a remarkable chain of events that began with the death of a Palestinian boy.

A Spanish judge issued arrest warrants for three U.S. soldiers on Thursday in connection with the death of a Spanish TV cameraman in Iraq in 2003, reopening a long-running legal battle, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.

An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, CNNMexico.com reported Thursday, citing state police.

The second U.S. sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last weekend is dead, a Pentagon official said Thursday.

Somali pirates have released a Turkish cargo ship that they had held since March 23, the European Naval Force in Somalia said Thursday.