Massive food distribution to begin Sunday in Port-au-Prince
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Massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government will begin Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
Fourteen people were shot and killed at a soccer field in northern Honduras, a police spokesman said Saturday.
We went to see orphanages Monday. One was called Maison des Enfants de Dieu — House of the Children of God. The house is still standing, but the children are afraid to go back in.
Two students from the University of Texas at El Paso were shot and killed Tuesday night in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Chihuahua state investigators said late Wednesday.
A Colombian rebel group is expected to release two hostages Friday, according to a former senator who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them.
Two journalists kidnapped earlier this week by armed gunmen in Gomez Palacio, Mexico, were freed by their captors unharmed Saturday, according to the state-run news agency Notimex.
Chile’s president said Monday that conditions must improve in the country’s mining industry, just days after 33 miners were rescued from a collapsed mineshaft at a copper mine in the country’s remote Atacama Desert.
Tropical Storm Matthew made landfall over Nicaragua Friday afternoon and pushed through to Honduras, bringing with it a threat of heavy rain, flash floods and mudslides.
Dilma Rousseff, who was elected as Brazil’s first female president on Sunday, once told reporters that as a typical Brazilian girl in the 1950s she dreamed of becoming a ballerina.
Peru’s president says Yale University has agreed to return artifacts to the South American country — a move that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.
A shootout near the U.S.-Mexico border between rival groups with ties to organized crime left 21 people dead Thursday, Mexican police officials said.
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.
Rescue operations were set to continue Thursday in Peru after a possibly overloaded ferry capsized in the Amazon River, killing at least 12 of the officially listed 152 people on board, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
Tomas continued to lose brawn in the Caribbean Sea on Monday morning after pummeling the island of St. Vincent over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said.
Torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala have killed at least 36 people, and could claim as many as 100 lives, the country’s emergency services agency said Sunday.
The bodies of two men — both decapitated and showing signs of torture — were found early Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the state attorney general’s office said.
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