The only thing that seemed to frighten Pedro Munoz that dark morning was that a guilty conscience would haunt him if he did nothing.
In patches across the Haitian capital, many earthquake survivors are not waiting for an international clearing and rebuilding effort to begin. They are pulling out shovels, wood and cement to slowly repair and rebuild themselves.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack of space, a White House spokesman said Saturday in response to reports of a dispute over who would pay for patients’ care.
Two officials in a small Argentinean town resigned and a third was relieved of his duties Monday after a fatal traffic accident led a mob to burn down city hall and other government buildings, authorities said.
At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
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.
A lawyer who left a videotape saying Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him masterminded his own death last year, a special United Nations commission said Tuesday after an eight-month investigation.
Officials in Brazil fear the death toll may rise as a result of persistent rain and flooding that has punished the northeastern states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, killing 33 people and leaving thousands homeless, officials said.
Throngs of mourners turned out Saturday for a funeral Mass for the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, whose body was found in the ruins of his residence across from the cathedral after the massive earthquake in Haiti.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed a decree Tuesday requiring all ships navigating from Argentina to the disputed Falkland Islands to carry a government permit.
The world marks International Women’s Day on Monday, an annual celebration that highlights their economic, political and social achievements.
One street in Pisco is lined with what appears to be homes, but these are facades: They are thin walls of bricks recreating fake homes, like those found on movie sets.
In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane’s city center, desperation surfaces in the form of fear, anger, thanks. All at once.
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