On his knees in the soggy soil, 9-year-old Alexis Ocampo digs deep into the earth, his small gardening rake separating dirt from rocks. “Look, I found a worm!” he shrieks.
A bomb exploded at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Thursday, the state-run Telam news agency reported, citing federal police. No one was injured in the blast.
Prince William and his wife Catherine will make the northernmost stops of their Canadian tour Tuesday when they visit sites in the Northwest Territories.
An American attorney representing Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier said Saturday that the former dictator returned to Haiti in hopes of recovering millions frozen in Swiss bank accounts and channeling them through a U.S. intermediary to help rebuild his troubled homeland.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital.
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.
The military operation to clear a Rio de Janeiro slum of drug traffickers will effectively turn into an occupation of the area at least through October of next year, Gov. Sergio Cabral said in a radio interview Tuesday.
Chilean officials were awaiting the arrival of a main drill and other equipment to begin boring a rescue shaft in a months-long operation to reach 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks.
At least 19 people died and 23 were injured in a Tuesday morning crash between a truck and a bus on a highway near Chile’s capital, officials said.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
Leading members of Cuba’s Communist party on Saturday met to discuss the future of the island’s revolution, including the possibility of term limits for top officials.
Mexican authorities over the weekend found 55 bodies inside a mine ventilation shaft that was used as a mass grave in the city of Taxco, officials said Monday.
Guatemala’s president has authorized the extradition of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo to face money-laundering charges in the United States, state media reported Tuesday.
Horror has given way to acceptance; it can be seen on people’s faces. But desperation surfaces everywhere:
Fidel Castro appeared publicly in his trademark olive green shirt on Saturday for the first time since he fell ill and renounced power four years ago, according to a state-run website.
One of Spain’s most famous matadors was in a stable condition in intensive care Sunday, a day after being severely gored during a bullfight in Mexico, Spain’s official news agency reported.
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