Gunshots rang out and the smell of tear gas filled the air in a crowded tent city outside Haiti’s destroyed presidential palace Monday night in one of the most serious confrontations since an earthquake decimated the city.
At least 20 people have died due to torrential downpours in Haiti, authorities said Tuesday, and aid agencies are scrambling to respond to a resurgence of cholera triggered by the heavy rain.
The Mexican government has apologized to the families of two students killed early Friday who officials initially said were drug gang members.
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Saturday night, killing two people and startling residents as far away as Mexico City, state media reported.
An independent study of global temperature records has reaffirmed previous conclusions by climate scientists that global warming is real.
Venezuela’s new prisons minister believes that 40% of the country’s inmates do not belong behind bars, the El Nacional newspaper reported.
Bermuda, which hasn’t seen a major hurricane in some seven years, is about to get walloped by Igor, which forecasters termed large and dangerous Saturday night.
With the death of the poet Peter Orlovsky in late May a chapter in America’s cultural life came to a discreet end.
As Tropical Storm Igor spins across the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters say the the storm will probably strengthen and become a hurricane later Saturday.
At least 30,000 children in Mexico are involved in some sort of organized crime, according to a nationwide alliance of civic and social organizations.
Gunmen dressed in black targeted two cars at an airport in northwest Honduras, killing six and leaving four injured, authorities said.
Parents panicked, rushing to rescue their children from schools they feared were under attack. Traffic jammed. Cars crashed. And online, rumors flew.
Eighteen people were killed in separate shootings throughout Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, marking it as one of the bloodiest days this year in the nation’s most violent city, officials said Sunday.
Lethal assaults on police and prison guards in Guatemala continued over the weekend, with an attack on a national police patrol that killed two officers and left one wounded, authorities said.
Residents and worried travelers in Cancun stocked up on supplies Tuesday as forecasters warned that Hurricane Rina could hit the popular Mexican resort city.
In this violence-plagued border city, officials are stepping up security — for police.
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