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One of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti was taken to a hospital Wednesday, two sources said.
It’s been 14 years in the making — an album combining the sensual rhythms of Cuban music with the desert-inspired sounds of west Africa.
Protesters angry over the government’s handling of a cholera outbreak clashed Monday with peacekeepers in two towns in northern Haiti, where the outbreak began last month.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday announced the names of three more political prisoners soon to be released from jail, raising the total number to 39 following a deal brokered by church leaders and Spain’s Foreign Ministry back in July.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says he is looking forward to the imminent rescue of the 33 miners trapped for more than two months nearly half a mile below ground.
A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country’s state-run Notimex agency reported.
A power outage in Toronto, Canada, Monday afternoon left some 200,000 customers without electricity, stalled electric-powered passenger trains between stations and stopped much of the city’s downtown, authorities said.
Security forces were burning the bodies of the dead this week in a Jamaican neighborhood ravaged by a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin, according to residents, who said their entire neighborhood had been a war zone.
Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
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.
Three brothers recuperated Thursday afternoon in a once-open field now speckled by the bright blue tarps of a cholera rehydration clinic in the Haitian town of Bercy, where an outbreak has sickened hundreds of people.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met Tuesday with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 42 people and left more than 115,000 homeless or displaced, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
Hurricane Richard made landfall just south of Belize City Sunday night, said CNN Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
Igor is now an Atlantic Ocean hurricane and could reach significant strength by Monday, the National Hurricane Center reported Saturday night.
With the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church spreading, a leading religious scholar said Wednesday that a greater female presence in the church hierarchy would have helped prevent the crisis from worsening.
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