There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile Monday afternoon, authorities there said.
Paraguay’s cancer-stricken president has been hospitalized for treatment, his office announced Saturday.
The Pan American Health Organization announced Tuesday it is increasing its planning to treat 400,000 cholera cases within the next year, up from a previous estimate of 270,000 over several years as a result of the outbreak in Haiti, an official said Tuesday.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa claimed victory in a referendum on government and social reforms that critics have charged is a thinly disguised attempt to consolidate more power.
Carine Exantus should be sitting in her college communications class. Instead, the 22-year-old is teaching herself how to avoid being attacked by the men who live in her new neighborhood — a maze of makeshift shelters spaced so close together that it is hard to get between them but easy to get inside.
A gaggle of photographers, relatives and fashion advisors traipse after Yuniesky Collazo as she twirls for the camera in a rented pink ball gown in one of Havana’s picturesque plazas.
A judge in Haiti said he expects to make a decision soon on the possible release of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the earthquake in January.
Tropical Storm Gert is predicted to skirt Bermuda Monday before veering northeast into the open Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The same hands that are helping Haiti recover from a massive earthquake could cripple its long-term recovery.
The plight of the 33 Chilean miners that has caught the attention of much of the world has also attracted dozens of notes from well-wishers, some of which have been posted on the Ministry of Mining’s website.
Chaos reigned north of Haiti’s capital Friday as hospitals overflowed with people rushing to get help from a fast-moving cholera outbreak that has killed at least 138 people.
Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental, one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. authorities said.
The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study that purposely infected people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases.
The ground rumbles when it moves. The steel wheels grind and screech. The whistle is a snarl not a toot. Some call it the “train of death,” others simply call it “La Bestia,” or the “the beast.”
The U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez will reopen Tuesday after a security review that lasted two business days, the State Department said.
One of Mexico’s most-wanted fugitives, an original member of the violent Zetas drug cartel, has been arrested in southern Mexico, officials said Tuesday.
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