A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti’s capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.
Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.
The former president of Argentina underwent major surgery Sunday on his right carotid artery, the country’s official news agency reported.
Costa Rica’s first female candidate held a two-to-one lead in the country’s presidential election, as the second-place candidate, Otton Solis of the Citizen’s Action Party, conceded defeat.
Federal authorities arrested a second person in connection with last weekend’s massacre at a house party in southern Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that killed 15 people, government officials said Saturday.
Federal and state representatives of the office of Mexico’s attorney general met Friday with the families of the 16 partygoers shot dead Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, a police spokesman told CNN.
The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.
When the earth started to shake on January 12, Rocher Joseph-Michelet was in his tiny, one-room apartment, composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince.
Former President Clinton, charged with overseeing the United Nations aid mission, returned to Haiti on Friday to meet with Haitian leaders, visit a clinic and deliver supplies, his foundation said.
Former President Bill Clinton plans to return to Haiti on Friday to meet with Haitian leaders, visit a clinic and deliver supplies, his foundation said.
