After quake, middle-class Haitians wrestle with fall into poverty
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Ronide Baduel keeps a broken teacup tucked away for safekeeping.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of calamity in 28 of the nation’s 32 states Thursday due to heavy rains and flooding that have affected 1.2 million people.
Five Mexican states are monitoring the Gulf oil spill, Mexico’s top environment official said, according to the state-run news agency Notimex.
The human rights group Amnesty International said Friday that Haitian authorities are launching a probe into alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 15-year rule of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier.
Manuel Gonzalez was eager to get the rescue operation under way as he descended the shaft to the darkness where 33 miners had been trapped since August 5.
As Tunisia adjusts to a new government, Selma Beji is cautiously optimistic about the future — and freedoms — of her fellow Tunisians.
The 63-year-old bearded fireplug of a man erupted in tears, pulled a white handkerchief from his back pocket, carefully unfolded it and pressed it into his eyes, pulled it away, pressed it again to his eyes, this time with more force, pulled it away again just long enough to take a sip of water, then rubbed them again.
The permanent council of the Organization of American States has approved a resolution asking troops to withdraw from the disputed border area between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Biologists suspect that unusually cold waters off the coast of Brazil were responsible for the deaths of more than 550 penguins that washed up on shore in the past 10 days.
Carlos Vielmann, a former Guatemalan interior minister wanted on charges of extrajudicial killings, turned himself in to authorities in Spain Thursday morning, his attorney told CNN.
Bare brick houses stacked one on top of another cling to the hills of Rio de Janeiro.
A former Uruguayan military officer suspected of participating in Argentina’s “Dirty War” was extradited from Brazil to Argentina to face charges, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported.
A crowd plunders buildings crumbled by last week’s earthquake, hauling off water, food, candles and anything else recoverable. Suddenly, a pickup truck hauling a half dozen armed policemen squeals to a halt.
Patients arrive at the front gates of St. Nicholas Hospital hunched over and groaning, only to be greeted by chaos and confusion.
Through the afternoon downpour a horse plods along a muddy mountain path. I can smell him almost before he rounds the bend. He’s weighed down with more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of freshly-picked marijuana.
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