Life’s a gamble for Chile’s ‘wildcat’ gold miners
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Two old-timers sit side by side on a desert rock, cutting detonating cord and decanting explosive pink fertilizer into thin tubes of newspaper.
The man who disguised himself as an elderly passenger on an Air Canada flight is an “ordinary citizen” from China who probably used a smuggling ring to obtain false documents and arrange the plan, his lawyer said Monday.
Thousands of people in southern Chile were told they could return home Sunday, some two weeks after a volcanic eruption forced them to flee.
Franklin Lobos and Jorge Galeguillos were driving a Nissan pickup truck into the San Jose copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile, when the Earth shook.
After a final day together, in the relative comfort of the regional hospital here, three of the 33 miners who lived trapped together for more than two months were discharged Thursday night, CNN Chile reported.
Eight drug traffickers belonging to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s organization have been captured, including a man presumed to be Guzman’s relative and confidant, officials said Wednesday.
A Cuban dissident died early Sunday after being detained by police three days earlier, with a fellow activist blaming police for his death.
Cristina Perez furrows her brow, concentrating and trying not to let her gaze wander too wildly.
The U.S. Embassy in Caracas appears to have put in long hours examining President Hugo Chavez’s efforts to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. But out of all the dense analysis springs one cable — about the role of the humble tortilla in building a brave new world.
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.
A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.
A Haitian judge ruled Wednesday that eight of the 10 Americans detained in Haiti have been freed on their word and can leave the country immediately, a lawyer involved in the case told CNN.
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.
An American relief worker jailed in Haiti under suspicion of kidnapping a 15-month-old boy has been released, the man told CNN Wednesday.
Haitians being treated on a U.S. Navy hospital ship are requiring longer care than expected, forcing the U.S. and other international agencies to scramble for an alternative.
Charisa Coulter, one of two American missionaries detained for more than a month in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after January 12’s devastating earthquake, was released Monday.
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