The death toll from the eruption of a volcano in Guatemala has risen to at least three people, an official said Friday.
After the killer earthquake in January, public health officials feared the worst for humanity in Haiti. Among the top concerns was the potential for disease outbreaks, particularly water-borne infections — like cholera.
The call came in the morning of July 30 to the offices of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, a local organization in the province of the same name in southern Colombia. A woman asked for group’s boss and, at being asked to identify herself, threatened the person who answered the phone.
It was the type of move that only a head of state could get away with.
The painstaking process of hoisting 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile below ground for more than two months in northern Chile was completed Wednesday night, less than a day after it began, ending a saga that gripped a nation that never gave up hope.
An accused teen hit man has been detained in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
Tears stream down 12-year-old Daphnis Adrien’s face on the day he is supposed to be reunited with his family after six weeks of separation.
The body of Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, the mayor of the city of Santiago in Nuevo Leon state, was found Wednesday, two days after he was abducted, Mexico’s interior ministry announced.
Piercing air horns sounded out Tuesday over the site where workers, drilling to reach 33 Chilean miners, passed the halfway point to the trapped men.
Tomas continued to lose brawn in the Caribbean Sea on Monday morning after pummeling the island of St. Vincent over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said.
Twenty inmates were killed and 12 injured during a fight Saturday at a prison in northeastern Mexico, officials said.
At least 14 inmates died Friday in a prison riot in northeastern Mexico, the state news agency reported.
Brazilian firemen on Thursday said they had brought a large fire in a Sao Paulo shantytown under control after 37 trucks and 120 men were rushed to the area in the center of the city.
The archbishop of Santiago has asked the Vatican to investigate a priest accused of sexually abusing four minors, a church official said.
Bolivia’s president pledged that his government will build new houses for thousands of people who are homeless after a “mega-mudslide” triggered by heavy rainfall in the nation’s capital, state media reported.
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