Nervous residents in Chile’s capital woke up Sunday morning to more aftershocks, a day after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the world in decades left large swaths of their city in ruins.
Aires Airlines Flight 8250 was seconds away from landing at San Andres airport on a small island off Colombia. The pilot had turned on the seat belt sign and told passengers to stay in their seats. Passengers could see rain and lightning outside their small cabin windows, but nothing was amiss. Everything seemed calm. Normal. Routine.
It was reality television at its best.
After 69 days and a cost as high as $20 million, 33 miners have finally been extracted from the bowels of the earth. To roaring applause, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera placed a metal cap on top of the rescue hole early Thursday morning — and marked the end of a rescue operation that captivated the globe.
In a meandering address that assigned American blame to issues ranging from the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the global financial crisis, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted U.S. foreign policy Thursday in a speech that prompted several delegates to walk out.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he has decided to close the country’s consulate in Miami after the United States expelled a Venezuelan diplomat in the same city.
Dozens of people attended a memorial in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, commemorating the one-year anniversary Sunday of a house party massacre that left 15 people dead.
A Cuban dissident whose release from prison had been delayed because of his refusal to leave the country has been freed, his wife told CNN.
Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal miner, but on the morning of February 19, 2006 he had to go down into the Pasta de Conchos mine near here to fix a broken cart that couldn’t haul the coal out.
Francisco and Astrid Ramos returned to Argentina from Haiti the morning of January 12, just hours before the devastating earthquake hit.
The mayor of a small town in western Mexico and his personal secretary were found dead Monday in the official’s truck, the government-run news service said.
The alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva drug trafficking organization was killed in a shootout with federal forces in northern Mexico, state media reported.
President Barack Obama on Thursday extended U.S. assistance to Colombia in combating civilian aircraft involved in drug trafficking.
At least 83 people were killed and several more were injured in a fire that broke out after a riot at a prison in Chile, the country’s president, Sebastian Pinera, told CNN Chile on Wednesday.
Mexican authorities have arrested a former soccer star whom they accuse of using his social status to help a kidnapping gang track down information about potential victims, officials said.
Guatemalan officials backtracked Thursday on plans to extradite the country’s former interior minister from Spain, saying justice would be better served if he is tried in Spain.
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