The death toll from Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile has reached nearly 800, the National Emergency Office said Wednesday.
Cristina Perez furrows her brow, concentrating and trying not to let her gaze wander too wildly.
U.S. diplomats on Friday called for the immediate release of an American who has been jailed in Cuba for months.
Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.
A former Mexican senator was reported missing on Saturday, Mexico’s attorney general’s office said.
The supply line to Haiti is clogged by airport congestion and blocked roads, forcing thousands of earthquake survivors to scrounge for food and emergency aid. But the head of the United Nations is calling for calm among the increasingly desperate populations.
At least 106 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital.
A crowd plunders buildings crumbled by last week’s earthquake, hauling off water, food, candles and anything else recoverable. Suddenly, a pickup truck hauling a half dozen armed policemen squeals to a halt.
The United Kingdom has “no doubt” about its sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, a British government minister said Tuesday.
For this installment of the Vice Guide to Film series, VBS co-founder Shane Smith traveled to Texas, Tijuana and Mexico City to immerse himself in the seedy, fast-paced, and vastly prolific and amusing world of films inspired by — and often funded by — Mexico’s ultraviolent drug cartels, a genre known as narco cinema.
The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince’s St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.
The death toll in Chile was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.
Thousands of Puerto Rican workers and supporters started to gather Thursday for an islandwide strike over government budget cuts that have led to the elimination of nearly 17,000 jobs.
Jamaican authorities declared a state of emergency in Kingston after gang members supportive of an alleged drug lord wanted by the United States attacked police stations and blockaded a large swath of the city.
A Colombian soldier held by Colombian rebels for more than 11 months was released Sunday.
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