Former Argentine president undergoes major surgery

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The former president of Argentina underwent major surgery Sunday on his right carotid artery, the country’s official news agency reported.

A U.S. Air Force plane serving as an airborne radio station is broadcasting messages to Haitians urging them not to attempt ocean voyages to the United States, saying they will be intercepted and turned back home if they do.

A third suspect has been arrested in the massacre of 15 people at a house party last month in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican official said Saturday.

Heavy rain over several days has unleashed flooding and landslides in southern Peru, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of tourists stranded in the Andes near the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, officials said.

A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, killing at least 147 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin.

Sirens sounded early Saturday morning across Hawaii, warning people of a possible tsunami and telling people to in coastal areas to evacuate.

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.

As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded.

The Haitian government has launched a new effort to thin out the tent cities around Port-au-Prince that are home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last month’s earthquake.

The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.

In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane’s city center, desperation surfaces in the form of fear, anger, thanks. All at once.

An Organization of American States commission condemned Monday the slayings last month of three Honduran political activists opposed to a military-led coup that removed the elected president in June.

A former Miss Argentina died Sunday after complications arising from plastic surgery, the official Telam news agency said.

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile Saturday was similar in intensity to the fifth most powerful quake recorded since 1900.

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.