6 dead in Mexico from Alex drenching, government says
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At least six people have died in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon from rain associated with former Hurricane Alex, which stormed ashore late Wednesday, the government news agency said Friday.
A Mexican military cargo plane crashed Wednesday on takeoff from Monterrey International Airport, killing five people, the state-run Notimex News Agency reported, citing Mexico’s secretary of defense.
Twenty-two Colombian guerrillas were killed Sunday in an airstrike, the country’s defense minister said.
The nearly 100 children living at an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, are hungry and thirsty, and desperately waiting for aid, a member of the orphan’s foundation told CNN on Saturday.
The head of a humanitarian aid group and a few of his colleagues survived 50 hours beneath the rubble of a hotel, with the help of a few things he keeps in his bag for his two young children.
Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo died Tuesday after an 80-day hunger strike to demand better jail conditions, according to dissidents.
Eight U.S. missionaries who were detained for almost three weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges arrived in Miami, Florida, late Wednesday night after a judge ordered them freed.
American aid worker Alan Gross is set to go on trial in Cuba on Friday in a case that plunged bilateral relations to a new low.
Ecuador has extended a state of emergency imposed in the capital after the president was attacked by police in a day of protests that paralyzed the country in September.
Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in Chile are depending on food, medicine and supplies being dropped to them through a 4-inch-wide tube.
Experts are examining the exhumed remains of men who fought for Mexico’s independence as part of the country’s bicentennial celebration.
Images appearing to show former Cuban President Fidel Castro surfaced Saturday on a pro-government blog, which claims the photos were taken Wednesday.
Seventeen people were killed and 10 injured in an attack on a party in Torreon, Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex reported, citing a representative of the federal attorney’s general office.
An accused teen hit man has been detained in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
An oil drill that rescuers are using to reach the trapped miners in Chile could provide a faster solution than the other two methods they have employed.
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