Massive food distribution begins in quake-ravaged Haitian capital
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A massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government was under way Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.
Tropical Depression Karl continued dissipating across southern Mexico on Saturday, but threats of flash floods and mudslides remain, forecasters said.
Brazil “will not bend” to U.S. pressure to seek sanctions against Iran, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brasilia.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year — 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.
Hurricane Rick weakened to a Category 3 storm early Monday as it churned toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, forecasters said.
Venezuelan cable television providers dropped a channel Sunday that has been critical of President Hugo Chavez, citing violation of broadcast laws.
Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, known as “the voice of Latin America” for her songs about the plight of the poor, died Sunday, according to an announcement on her Web site. She was 74.
The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince’s St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.
At least 81 people were killed and several more injured in a fire that broke out after a riot at a prison in Chile, officials said Wednesday.
Emergency authorities said Wednesday they are on watch for sinkholes and other possible problems in Guatemala, where heavy rain has already caused two rivers to overflow and a tropical storm led to the deaths of more than 150 people in May.
The death toll from flooding and mudslides in Brazil continued to climb Thursday, with official reports of at least 154 fatalities.
Two American immigration and customs officers driving across Mexico on Monday were shot and “seriously wounded” by unidentified gunmen, according to U.S officials.
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