Bill Clinton returns to Haiti to oversee aid relief
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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.
After dealing a walloping blow to Haiti, where at least six people died and a number of homes were destroyed, Tropical Storm Tomas weakened rapidly Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.
A coal mine explosion early Thursday in northwest Colombia has trapped at least 70 miners and killed at least five workers, a local official told CNN en Español.
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.
An alleged drug cartel boss killed in clashes with Mexican authorities was also a “spiritual leader” who used religion to recruit criminals and strengthen his stronghold, according to a Mexican government report.
Charges have been dropped against nine of the American missionaries held in Haiti earlier this year, according to a spokesman for Idaho Sen. Jim Risch.
He comes from one of the most seductive cities on earth and makes art that demands to be touched, yet Ernesto Neto wishes the world was less sexy.
The United Nations stepped up its defense Thursday of its beleaguered boss with high-level staffers speaking out in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Journalism advocates and the U.S. government voiced opposition Wednesday to legislative moves in Venezuela that they said could lead to draconian restrictions on the news media and further strengthen the position of President Hugo Chavez.
Experts are examining the exhumed remains of men who fought for Mexico’s independence as part of the country’s bicentennial celebration.
The U.S. government has managed to get talks for a terror suspect’s guilty plea agreement back on the rails.
Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.
Experts feared Monday that the hurricane that battered Haiti over the weekend could worsen the outbreak of cholera that has killed hundreds of people and hospitalized thousands since it began last month.
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved Wednesday the cancellation of Haiti’s $268 million debt to the fund.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has reshuffled his Cabinet, naming nine ministers to new posts and placing the nation’s troubled food distribution network under the vice president, the government announced Wednesday.
The editor and owner of a Venezuela newspaper under investigation by the government of President Hugo Chavez defended the editorial decision to publish a graphic photo that spurred the inquiry.
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