Doctors: Haitian may have survived 4 weeks in rubble
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A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti’s capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.
Heavily populated parts of Chile still were without water service and electricity Sunday night because of Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.
An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck eastern Venezuela on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The cake has been cut. The guests have all gone home. And now, even the honeymoon may be over.
Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.
Trafficking of children and human organs is occurring in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated parts of Haiti, killed more than 150,000 people, and left many children orphans, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Wednesday.
3:50 p.m. — President Obama urged Americans to take tsunami warnings seriously. “The most important thing you can do is to closely heed the instructions of your local officials,” he said on the White House lawn.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom called for calm as a volcanic eruption spread ash over the capital, prompting evacuations and shutting down the city’s international airport.
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims’ suffering.
Mexican authorities have suspended their investigation into the disappearance of a former presidential candidate after his family asked authorities to stand back from the case, the attorney general’s office announced Saturday.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
You hear it all the time in Port-au-Prince: “That’s Haiti,” people tell you when things move slowly, when the electricity goes off or traffic mysteriously comes to a halt. Some say it was like that even before a devastating earthquake reduced most homes to a few hours of power from a generator and made some streets impossible to pass.
Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in the Mexican capital.
Three human heads and three decapitated bodies with notes aimed at high government officials were found Thursday morning in different parts of Guatemala’s capital, national police said.
Being on guard might come naturally to many city dwellers, but in some places urban life requires more than just vigilance.
A delegation from the Organization of American States concluded a trip to Honduras on Thursday with little progress made toward a resolution between the country’s de facto government and its ousted president.
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