A graffiti message on a wall in Juarez, Mexico, warns of a car bombing if U.S. authorities do not look into alleged ties between Mexican federal police and drug traffickers, a police spokesman said Monday.
The arduous trip begins from a city on fire.
Reginald DesRoches is deploying to Haiti to tag key infrastructure buildings with red, yellow and green markers — designations on whether they’re still usable.
A quickly intensifying Hurricane Igor is poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm — the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.
A fourth earthquake in 24 hours rattled coastal Chile early Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
As Sunday night fell on Chile, heavily populated parts of the country were without water and electricity, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations brought his country’s complaints about neighbor Colombia to the U.N. secretary-general Monday in the form of a letter explaining his government’s decisions.
Francisco and Astrid Ramos returned to Argentina from Haiti the morning of January 12, just hours before the devastating earthquake hit.
Mexico has received the support of parliamentary leaders from 10 nations in opposition to Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, the Mexican Senate president said Wednesday.
A man was pulled from rubble in Haiti’s capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled much of the city, officials said.
Tomas returned to tropical storm strength late Wednesday afternoon as it ground through the southern Caribbean en route to earthquake-devastated Haiti.
Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas. Its colorful nickname was the Great Eastern Garbage Patch, and what was even more mind-boggling than the purported scale was that pretty much the only places you could dig up any substantial info about it were in minor oceanographic and environmental publications. You also couldn’t find a photo of it to save your life. It was like Garbage Brigadoon.
A subtropical depression formed Wednesday in the western Atlantic Ocean, but was not expected to pose a threat to land, forecasters said.
The death toll from severe flooding in two states in northeastern Brazil has grown to 44, with more than 600 people still missing, the government-run news agency reported.
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