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A team with Los Angeles County Search and Rescue answered Saturday the desperate, but futile, pleas of a mother who believed her young daughter was trapped alive beneath the rubble of a day care center in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Federal aid is flowing to rain-ravaged areas of northeastern Brazil and the number of missing has diminished to less than 140, but more than 150,000 people remained homeless or displaced Friday, the government said.
Lely Laurentus thought he was doing the right thing when he handed his two young children over to an American woman who promised to take them to a better place.
On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated.
Rescuers were still finding survivors trapped in the ruins of collapsed buildings in earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Wednesday, and relief officials said efforts to get aid into the hands of survivors were improving.
A United Airlines flight was diverted to Toronto late Monday after concerns over an electrical issue, an airport official said.
Haiti’s political crisis will not be resolved until well into spring as the nation’s election panel announced a timetable for a runoff and subsequent vote tally.
A prison riot in Venezuela left eight dead and 16 injured, the country’s penitentiary director told CNN en Español on Wednesday.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was meeting Tuesday morning with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 40 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in two separate attacks in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, state media said.
There have been no reports of major damage or injuries in the wake of a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, according to the country’s leader.
The process of extracting 33 miners from a Chilean mine, where they have been trapped for more than two months, is going better than expected, the nation’s health minister told reporters Wednesday.
His return heralded by a siren’s blare and the cries of a happy nation, the first of 33 Chilean miners emerged into a cool desert night early Wednesday after being trapped underground for 69 harrowing days.
She gingerly walked from the car and shuffled up the small hill, her eyes welled in tears.
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.
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