The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved Wednesday the cancellation of Haiti’s $268 million debt to the fund.
Undeterred by the darkness or search dogs who no longer picked up signs of life, a rescue crew patiently chipped away at concrete and debris early Sunday morning to try and reach a woman who sent a text message that she was buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed bank.
Tropical Storm Paula, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, has formed in the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Officials in Brazil fear the death toll may rise as a result of persistent rain and flooding that has punished the northeastern states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, killing 33 people and leaving thousands homeless, officials said.
Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday.
Whether he’s out on the ocean monitoring stingrays in the Caribbean, or back on land painting in his studio, Guy Harvey spends all his time surrounded by fish.
Already devastated this year by a killer earthquake and a deadly cholera outbreak, Haiti braced Friday for Hurricane Tomas, which could dump 15 inches of rain on the nation and trigger deadly flash floods and mudslides.
More miners are expected to be discharged Friday from a regional hospital following their rescue after 69 days underground.
Officials in Petionville, Haiti, on Saturday prepared to move the first people out of a ballooning tent city — one of many erected in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake that devastated the country in January — and into a displacement camp as the rainy season gets under way.
During her darkest hours in captivity, former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt considered death preferable to her ordeal, she said in an interview with CNN’s “Connect the World.”
Castaway, turned Cuban media icon, Elian Gonzalez thanked “the American public for helping him return to his father in Cuba.”
Five Cuban political prisoners and their families boarded an airplane to Madrid, Spain, on Thursday night, bringing the number of prisoners released into exile in the past two weeks to 20, according to the Spanish Embassy in Havana.
The U.N.’s human rights chief urged Mexican officials Friday to intensify their investigation into the disappearance of dozens of Central American migrants who were abducted while travelling north on a freight train.
A third suspect has been arrested in the massacre of 15 people at a house party last month in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican official said Saturday.
Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday ordered the Army to send four battalions of soldiers to the country’s northern borderlands, the site of increasing violence fueled by the drug trade.
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