Panama

Seven people were killed in a bizarre religious ritual in a jungle community in Panama, in which indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers and tortured, beaten, burned and hacked with machetes to make them “repent their sins,” authorities said Thursday.

Thirty years after the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Noriega, relatives of Panamanians who disappeared have new hope for answers about the fate of their loved ones. Their hope lies in a Truth Commmission established in 2016 that has compiled evidence leading to the exhumation of anonymous bodies early next year at a Panama City cemetery. The remains will...

Nkeze wasn’t home when Cameroonian militants came knocking, probably to deliver their signature ultimatum to join their separatist movement or have his writing arm cut off. The 24-year-old economics student escaped to Douala, the country’s largest city, only to learn that the government wanted to arrest him for participating in a university protest. He then flew to Ecuador and traveled...

The Cameroonian men who share 10 mattresses on the floor of a third-floor apartment above a barber shop walk every morning to the busiest U.S. border crossing with Mexico, hoping against all odds that it will be their lucky day to claim asylum in the United States.

Among the celebrities, comic book legends, and movie studios present at Comic-Con, there is a young generation of comic book artists, high school students from Carmel Valley’s Canyon Crest Academy.

Local high school students created their own educational comic for Comic-Con. NBC 7’s Danica McAdam has more.

Parking and driving in Balboa Park can be a hassle, so NBC 7’s Ashley Matthews breaks down how to enjoy the food truck fun without driving.

Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants. Officials in Texas and even Maine are scrambling to absorb the sharp increase in African migrants. They are coming to America after...

The majority owner of a former Trump-branded hotel in Panama alleged in a court filing on Monday that the U.S. president’s company misrepresented finances of the building to evade taxes in the country. A filing in New York federal court by property owner Orestes Fintiklis alleges that President Donald Trump’s hotel management company evaded income and social security taxes...

Located near Panama City is the famous Panama Canal, a true testament to the wonders of human engineering.

NBC 7’s Danielle Radin reports from the country of Panama.

A tasting of the exclusive Elida Geisha Natural was held over the weekend at Klatch Coffee’s San Francisco location. Those who handed over $75 were treated to a hand poured cup of the award-winning coffee.

From the lush tropical garden of the Chilean ambassador’s residence, Venezuelan opposition leader Freddy Guevara takes a much-anticipated call from a foreign diplomat and asks him to protect a fellow lawmaker fleeing President Nicolás Maduro’s latest crackdown. “Gracias, Gracias ambassador. In the name of all of us,” said Guevara speaking into his cellphone as he sits down for a rare...

Balboa Park has been an iconic landmark in San Diego for the past 100 years, but now local leaders are calling on a set of multi-million-dollar improvements to bring the park into the next century.

San Diego Councilmember Chris Ward called for $9.5 million in improvements at Balboa Park. NBC 7’s Marianne Kushi has more.

When the horses enter the gate for the 145th Kentucky Derby, their jockeys will hail from Venezuela, New Mexico, Panama and France. None will be African-American. That’s been the norm for quite a while. When Marlon St. Julien rode the Derby in 2000, he became the first black man to get a mount since 1921. It wasn’t always this way....

About 600 mostly Cuban migrants who were part of a mass escape from a southern Mexico immigration detention center a day earlier remained at large Friday evening, immigration authorities said. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said in a statement that rather than the 1,300 escapees it reported Thursday night, only 645 migrants had actually fled. It said only 35 of those...

Plaza de Panama’s failed redevelopment, an accused school administrator back at work, and an assembly bill for Airbnb. They’re all major topics in this week’s ‘Friday Five’. Voice of San Diego Scott Lewis explains.

The committee behind a multi-million dollar proposal to add parking and change routes through Balboa Park announced Thursday they have terminated the public-private partnership approved by the city three years ago, effectively dissolving any change of the renovation moving forward.

A man pleaded not guilty to killing his wife in court Tuesday after her body was discovered in her City Heights home in early March.