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A compressor exploded Tuesday morning inside a government-owned oil refinery in northeastern Mexico, forcing the evacuation of the facility’s workers, state-own oil company Pemex said.
With the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church spreading, a leading religious scholar said Wednesday that a greater female presence in the church hierarchy would have helped prevent the crisis from worsening.
Communications and supplies were flowing efficiently between rescuers and 33 trapped miners in Chile, authorities said Wednesday.
A French doctor’s report suggests that the strain of cholera ravaging Haiti may have originated with U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, but U.N. officials and others cautioned that the report was inconclusive.
The storm previously known as Hurricane Igor sped past Newfoundland Tuesday, leaving behind downed trees, washed out roads and a desperate search for a missing elderly man.
Four people died, two are missing and 110 were injured when a tornado struck Thursday afternoon in northern Argentina, near the border with Paraguay, the state-run Telam news agency reported Friday.
Several hundred people have died in heavy rains and flooding in Brazil, civil defense officials said Thursday.
American artist C. Finley has taken it upon herself to perform interventions in the street. She doesn’t help addicts kick their habit, but wallpapers dumpsters, what she classes as “urban interventions”.
While the United Nations warned that protests were hampering efforts to save lives in the Haiti cholera outbreak, a leading non-profit group lashed out at organizations for what it called an “inadequate” response.
The U.S. military said Wednesday it plans to send 4,000 more troops to Haiti.
Heavily populated parts of Chile still were without water service and electricity Sunday night because of Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.
Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean told CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Thursday he is running for president of Haiti.
Spanish oil company Repsol is in “the exploration stage” of oil drilling off of Cuba’s northern coast, prompting a controversy in south Florida over fears of a potential spill.
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims’ suffering.
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