Costa Rica News

I appeal to netizens around the globe to take action in support of returning humanity to Darfur. Make today the day that you stand in support of stopping the genocide in Darfur. Make your voice heard, enlist those in your...

Attorney's Office said Wednesday that Jeffrey Pearson had been arrested in the Central American country. Authorities are searching for a second man indicted by a Miami federal grand jury. Prosecutors say Pearson and a coconspirator operated out of Costa Rica...

Saturday, November 29, 2008 Cheating plagues online gambling sites The Washington Post Whenever Todd Witteles signed on to an Internet poker site, the first thing he did was look around for inexperienced players. One day in August 2007, the Las...

They overcame the final hurdle Tuesday by approving laws dealing with intellectual property. Costa Rica's president has applauded the move.

One night, in a country swept up in a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt that she gathered women together to pray for peace...Peters Lutheran Church in Monrovia, when women of all walks of life...

Although Costa Rica has no military, "it is not a naive nation," stressed Arias, a 1987 Novel Peace Prize laureate. "We have not come here for the abolition of all armies. We have not even come to urge the drastic...