The death toll from Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile has reached nearly 800, the National Emergency Office said Wednesday.
An Organization of American States human rights commission has asked a court to look into the 1994 disappearance of a Dominican Republic opposition leader shortly after he was taken into custody, the agency said Monday.
Some of the families camped outside the San Jose mine, waiting for rescuers to reach 33 workers trapped underground, fear Chilean President Sebastian Pinera may be playing politics with the rescue operation in an effort to boost his popularity.
Half a mile underground, the hollow echo of the Chilean national anthem rings out. And slowly, the red, white and blue Chilean flag is hoisted up a makeshift metal flagpole.
Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have caused 260 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, CNN affiliate TV Record reported Wednesday.
Fidel Castro on Friday accused the United States of “torturing” a Cuban agent imprisoned there, saying Cuba is being pressured to release its spies.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shook hands on the sidelines of Brazil’s presidential inauguration this weekend, state media reported.
High ranking officials in North Korea on Wednesday paid their respects during the state funeral of the country’s second-highest ranking military officer, Jo Myong Rok, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
The bodies of four men kidnapped from a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, have been found in the bed of a pickup truck in the city, municipal police said Tuesday.
A man was pulled from rubble in Haiti’s capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled much of the city, officials said.
The Mexican military arrested 10 people associated with the Sinaloa drug cartel after three decapitated bodies were found near Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican military operations spokesman told CNN late Wednesday.
Two strong aftershocks shook parts of Chile on Friday morning, hours before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to meet with Chilean President Michele Bachelet and her successor.
At least 106 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon was undergoing surgery for a heart attack Monday, two days after taking office, a hospital director said at a news conference.
Tropical storm conditions spread over Bermuda Sunday morning as Hurricane Igor remains on track to pummel the island later in the day.
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