Haiti trying to avoid past mistakes as rebuilding begins
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At the Iron Market, Haitians shopped for everything from vegetables to Voodoo flags. One side was destroyed in a 2008 fire. The January 12 earthquake leveled the rest.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
Following are the pronunciations for the names of the Chilean miners, in the planned order of their rescue.
In an effort to ramp up pressure for Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon, an indigenous rights organization has released what it says are photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that is threatened by the logging across the border.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Friday he “deplores” an early morning attack Friday at a bar in a Medellin suburb that killed at least eight people.
A man that southern Ontario police were looking for after he bought enough ammonium nitrate to make a bomb has contacted authorities and the purchase is no longer considered suspicious, officials said Wednesday night.
An Aeromexico flight from France to Mexico was diverted to Montreal, Canada, Sunday because a “person of interest” was on board, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said.
The mother of a Cuban political prisoner who died after a prolonged hunger strike a year ago has been detained ahead of the first anniversary of his death, according to family.
Their return heralded by a siren’s blare and the relieved cries of a happy nation, the first of 33 miners began emerging into a cool desert night early Wednesday after being trapped underground for 69 harrowing days.
Hurricane Tomas strengthened to a Category 2 storm as it traveled through the eastern Caribbean on Sunday morning, forecasters said.
The last agent on the police force in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe is missing, a government official said Wednesday.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
Anger boiled over on the streets of Haiti’s capital Tuesday — not just from residents who have gone a week without food and water, but from the people who are supposed to be providing it.
French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake devastated much of the country.
State Department analysts raised questions about the psychological state and health of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, according to a December 2009 cable recently published by WikiLeaks.
The fishing boat speeds over blue waters of the Caribbean, leaving behind the devastation of mainland Haiti. Pods of dolphins and flying fish dart over the frothy waves. Ahead lies an island of pristine beaches.
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