10 arrested with 33 children at Haiti-Dominican border
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Ten people, including Americans and Dominicans, carrying 33 children were arrested along the Haitian-Dominican Republic border Saturday, according to Mario Andresol, chief of Haitian National Police.
Heavy rain over several days has unleashed flooding and landslides in southern Peru, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of tourists stranded in the Andes near the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, officials said.
Peru’s president says Yale University has agreed to return artifacts to the South American country — a move that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.
Tropical Storm Alex approached hurricane strength early Tuesday as it churned off the northwestern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula in the Bay of Campeche, the National Hurricane Center said.
Rescue crews in central Mexico Tuesday dug furiously through debris in search for survivors of a landslide that killed five people, a Civil Guard spokesman told CNN.
Thirty-three miners trapped underground in Chile sent a note on Sunday saying they are alive, raising hopes for the first time in the nearly three weeks since the mine collapsed, but officials cautioned it could take months to rescue the workers.
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 have begun to assume different roles to help them survive what could be a months-long effort to bring them to the surface from 2,300 feet below ground, rescue officials said Thursday.
Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived Friday in earthquake-damaged Chile, which endured two more strong aftershocks while working to recover from last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
In an effort to ramp up pressure for Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon, an indigenous rights organization has released what it says are photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that is threatened by the logging across the border.
An official with the justice department in Mexico’s Chihuahua state was killed Monday morning in Ciudad Juarez while on his way to work, a federal police spokesman told CNN.
Cuba will soon release two prominent political prisoners, the Catholic Church said Friday, and will allow one of them to remain in the country in a sign that it will not require jailed dissidents to go into exile as a condition of their release.
Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, will head a new U.N. agency created to promote gender equality around the world, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
Utility crews struggled early Tuesday to stem the flow from a sewage line near Arizona damaged by suspected drug smugglers who were attempting to dig a tunnel under the Mexico-U.S. border, officials said.
Ten Americans held in Haiti on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of the country could have their first court hearing Monday afternoon, a preacher associated with the missionaries told CNN.
At least 16 people died and more than 15 others were missing Thursday after heavy overnight rains caused severe mudslides in parts of Costa Rica, the nation’s Red Cross said.
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