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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 attorney for Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot said he’s going to ask the judge in charge of the case to strike down his client’s confession in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez.
Heavy rain over several days has unleashed flooding and landslides in southern Peru, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of tourists stranded in the Andes near the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, officials said.
There are days working for CNN when you feel like you are in the final scene of the film “Hotel Rwanda,” hurtling toward an uncertain salvation from a disaster of epic proportions.
The powerful earthquake that rocked Haiti “destroyed” much of Port-au-Prince, the country’s first lady reported, as the widespread devastation in the country’s teeming capital came into full view Wednesday as dawn broke.
Authorities believe assassins targeted a pregnant woman and two other people connected with a U.S. consulate who were killed in drive-by shootings over the weekend, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Monday.
Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, bringing an end to the de facto government that ruled the country following a June coup.
A 24-year-old man was rescued from the rubble 11 days after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti.
Officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province have authorized chemical castration for rapists after a significant increase in sexual assaults last year.
The bodies of at least 20 people were found in various sectors of the municipality of Ciudad Madero, Mexico, south of Tamaulipas, state news agency Notimex reported Friday.
Cuba has begun moving some of its jailed dissidents to prisons that are closer to their homes, according to Elizardo Sanchez, head of Cuba’s independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
Five days after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the fear of going back inside has subsided. But the plazas and the parks are still full.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, inflicting a catastrophe on the impoverished Caribbean nation. Here are some facts about Haiti:
Extending U.S. trade preferences for Haiti could create as many as 100,000 jobs that would boost the earthquake-ravaged country’s recovery, former President Bill Clinton said during a visit to the Haitian capital Monday.
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