Chileans start to evacuate after false tsunami warning
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Residents in coastal cities in Chile started to evacuate Wednesday after authorities warned of a possible tsunami caused by an aftershock.
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.
Thirty-three Haitians were released Thursday from immigration detention facilities in Florida, more than two months after they arrived in the United States lacking proper immigration papers in the aftermath of their country’s devastating earthquake.
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.
Teams of rescuers in Haiti’s capital rushed to the city’s Caribbean Market on Tuesday after a machine used to clear rubble caused a secondary collapse, trapping at least one Haitian in the rubble.
Not all of the earthquake-traumatized Haitians are receiving the aid they need, a U.S. general said Thursday, partly because displaced residents are moving from place to place.
The Pakistani man who was detained at the U.S. Embassy last week after setting off explosive detectors was charged with illegally possessing explosives and released from jail Saturday.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Tuesday it had filed two applications with a regional human rights court to move forward on two South American cases.
The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha is growing, with 123 reported killed in Guatemala, 17 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
Jamaica’s prime minister Wednesday rejected allegations that he was “a known criminal affiliate” of a suspected drug lord, calling them “libellous,” “scurrilous” and “malicious.”
A former Uruguayan military officer suspected of participating in Argentina’s “Dirty War” was extradited from Brazil to Argentina to face charges, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported.
A court sentenced former Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry to 30 years in prison on Wednesday for the coup that consolidated his power in 1973 and for human rights violations.
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