Chile earthquake update: Heed local officials, Obama tells Americans
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3:50 p.m. — President Obama urged Americans to take tsunami warnings seriously. “The most important thing you can do is to closely heed the instructions of your local officials,” he said on the White House lawn.
A “tense calm” prevailed Friday evening in Panama’s Bocas del Toro province, one day after violent confrontations between striking banana plantation workers and federal troops left one protester dead and more than 100 people injured, the president’s spokeswoman told CNN.
A U.S. Air Force plane serving as an airborne radio station is broadcasting messages to Haitians urging them not to attempt ocean voyages to the United States, saying they will be intercepted and turned back home if they do.
For most of his 82 years, Luis Posada Carriles has endeavored with a single-minded determination to bring down the Cuban Revolution.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrapped up a week-long trade mission to Cuba Thursday, a trip in which he also pursued another goal — bringing about the release of a jailed U.S. contractor.
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s former dictator, returned unexpectedly Sunday to the country after some 25 years in exile.
Experts are examining the exhumed remains of men who fought for Mexico’s independence as part of the country’s bicentennial celebration.
In the country that ranks second in the harvest of coca, the plant whose leaves are used in the production of cocaine, the idea to get Peruvian farmers to plant alternative crops is not new.
Tropical Storm Tomas — which killed at least five people on St. Lucia — “could pose a significant threat” to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.
Igor is now an Atlantic Ocean hurricane and could reach significant strength by Monday, the National Hurricane Center reported Saturday night.
Three teens, one a U.S. citizen, were killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez this weekend, a spokesman with the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said Monday.
A lifelong nature lover, Oscar Aranda studied biology in college and knew he wanted to work somehow with animals at sea.
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.
Tens of thousands of residents began evacuating Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami following Chile’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
At least 17 people were killed after a bus carrying more than 50 passengers plummeted into a ravine and plunged into a river in Peru, state media reported.
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