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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government has helped nearly 288,000 citizens who have sought aid through his three-month-old Twitter account.
Leticia Lima was buried up to her neck in mud. Her forehead was crushed and her teeth knocked out.
With potential for unrest looming, Haitians waited anxiously Tuesday to hear results of the presidential vote held more than a week ago.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon vowed Wednesday that his government “will act to the maximum of our capabilities” to restore order to the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
A Haitian prosecutor asked for a six-month prison sentence Thursday for an American missionary accused of trying to take nearly three dozen children out of the country after a devastating and deadly earthquake in January.
Bermuda, which hasn’t seen a major hurricane in some seven years, is about to get walloped by Igor, which forecasters termed large and dangerous Saturday night.
The Colombian military killed a rebel leader who was a liaison with Mexican drug cartels, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.
Costa Rica’s first female candidate held a two-to-one lead in the country’s presidential election, as the second-place candidate, Otton Solis of the Citizen’s Action Party, conceded defeat.
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.
Stung by criticism that aid hasn’t been getting into earthquake-ravaged Haiti quickly enough, U.S. officials say they are taking steps to rectify the problem and the perception.
Newfoundland, Canada, was experiencing hurricane-force wind gusts Tuesday as Hurricane Igor rapidly passed by the island’s southeastern tip, forecasters said.
Six months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to help rebuild the country have not delivered any funds at all, a CNN investigation has found.
Just two days before the earthquake struck Haiti, 2007 CNN Hero Boby Duval was celebrating the completion of a wall he’d built to surround — and secure — his youth program’s athletic center in Port-au-Prince.
Cristina Perez furrows her brow, concentrating and trying not to let her gaze wander too wildly.
Hurricane Richard made landfall just south of Belize City Sunday night, said CNN Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
A helicopter rescued 18 people from a city in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state after rains caused devastating flooding and mudslides in the mountainous region, the country’s Air Force said.
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