The death toll in Chile was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.
Guatemala’s Constitutional Court removed the country’s new attorney general Thursday night — just days after the president appointed him to the post.
A man that southern Ontario police were looking for after he bought enough ammonium nitrate to make a bomb has contacted authorities and the purchase is no longer considered suspicious, officials said Wednesday night.
The U.S. military said Wednesday it plans to send 4,000 more troops to Haiti.
Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.
Honduran prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the country’s six top military commanders for abuse of power in connection with the coup that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last year.
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.
The head of Cuba’s Catholic Church urged Havana to reconcile differences with its nemesis Washington as one step in averting the worst crisis that has befallen the communist island in recent times.
Reginald DesRoches is deploying to Haiti to tag key infrastructure buildings with red, yellow and green markers — designations on whether they’re still usable.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha continued to grow Tuesday, with 152 reported killed in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
The powerful earthquake that rocked Haiti “destroyed” much of Port-au-Prince, the country’s first lady reported, as the widespread devastation in the country’s teeming capital came into full view Wednesday as dawn broke.
Here are some observations four days after Tuesday’s massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital:
The former Haitian president forced to flee office during the violent uprising of 2004 has announced that he is ready to return home to help rebuild his earthquake-shattered country.
A Mexican father who said his two young children had been kidnapped — and later told authorities he had sold them to pay a debt — confessed after their bodies were found that he had killed them, prosecutors say.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
Each morning, millions of city dwellers across the world embark on a mission to beat traffic jams and congested roads, via a variety of transport ranging from modern high-speed trains to noisy tricycles — and even horse and cart.
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