SAO PAULO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday dismissed corruption charges against him as a fabrication and said he was being framed to stop him from running for the presidency in two years time.

WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. border officials are struggling to find enough space to temporarily hold hundreds of Haitian immigrants who left Brazil, where they relocated after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, but have decided to move again amid recession and the Rio Olympics ending.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has proposed liberalizing his country's drug laws, privately asked California lawmakers visiting Mexico about a state measure to legalize recreational marijuana, a state legislator said on Thursday.

(Reuters) - Novavax Inc said on Thursday that its experimental vaccine for a serious infectious respiratory disease failed at the final stage of human testing, sending its stock plunging more than 80 percent.

LIMA (Reuters) - A wildfire burning in the Peruvian Amazon that has charred some 20,000 hectares (49,421 acres) of rainforest and destroyed crops planted by indigenous communities was raging toward a national park and another protected area, authorities said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Italian politician was sentenced on Thursday to four years in a U.S. prison for conspiring with others to sell $15 million worth of weapons to undercover informants posing as Colombian rebels.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan judge has barred a son and brother of President Jimmy Morales from leaving the country pending an investigation into their role in a case centering on irregular payments, the attorney general's office said on Thursday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Centrist parties pledged their support for President Michel Temer's plan to curb public spending and balance Brazil's overdrawn government accounts on Thursday, raising the prospect for quick approval of a spending cap amendment he is seeking.