8:53: a.m. — President Obama to make statement on Haiti at 10 a.m. ET.
Tropical Storm Paula, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, has formed in the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
In a sign that the use of more sophisticated weapons may become routine in Mexico’s war against the drug cartels, officials in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were studying an explosive projectile launched at federal police Sunday night during a shootout.
A U.S. citizen imprisoned in Peru for 15 years for aiding leftist rebels was released from prison Monday after a Peruvian court granted her parole her last week.
The Colombian military killed the leader of the country’s main leftist rebel group in an operation, a senior government official said Friday night.
Colombia lost one of its best-known independent magazines this month when the parent company of Cambio suddenly announced it was ceasing publication.
French rescuers in Haiti on Wednesday pulled from rubble a girl who they believe could have been trapped since the January 12 earthquake.
Costa Rica’s president has declared Friday and Saturday national days of mourning after mudslides buried homes and killed at least 20 people in the Central American country, officials said.
Rescuers in Ecuador continued to look Monday for two of four miners who were trapped underground after part of a gold mine collapsed in the southern part of the country.
A Venezuelan governor and former minister of communications was missing Saturday after a car accident.
Brazil’s Supreme Tribunal has affirmed a decision by the country’s former president to reject the extradition of Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti. The court ruled that Battisti should be freed from Brazilian prison immediately.
Officials in a popular stretch of coastal North Carolina ordered all visitors to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irene, which damaged homes in the Bahamas Wednesday as it churned toward the U.S. East Coast.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Mexico’s Baja California on Sunday, rattling Arizona and southern California, and leaving at least two dead and 100 injured in Mexico, authorities said.
Tomas became a Category 1 hurricane as it approached Haiti early Friday, forecasters said.
Pascal Clemens arrived in Acapulco 17 years ago. The native of Germany who owns a real estate company in the Mexican beach resort says he immediately fell in love with the place. His original plan was to move to New York, but he couldn’t get enough of the sunny beaches, friendly people, cool breezes, and above all, the spectacular weather in Acapulco.
The 33 workers trapped inside a mine in Chile cheered, applauded and sang the country’s national anthem in their first verbal contact with officials.
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