The ordeal of waiting for a miner trapped 2,200 feet below ground in Chile to be rescued can be perhaps more anguishing if you’re also waiting for a minor to emerge.
Aid is reaching earthquake-torn Haiti, but getting it to the people who need it remains a challenge.
Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.
Two years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled Haiti’s capital, a deal brokered by former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation will add new lodging for aid workers and other travelers to Port-au-Prince — in the form of a $45 million hotel.
Haitian officials have postponed a runoff election, originally scheduled for January 16, to decide the troubled nation’s next president.
At least 17 people throughout Mexico have died and thousands of others have been affected since Thursday as a result of Tropical Storm Arlene, a Mexican official said Monday.
In August, icon is all about music. Presenter Monita Rajpal travels to the Swiss resort of Montreaux which has, for more than four decades, been home to the annual jazz festival.
Cuba has stepped up its harassment of dissidents in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, with authorities beating, gassing and arresting protesters critical of the Communist government, human rights activists said Wednesday.
The two remaining miners trapped underground in Ecuador since part of a mine collapsed last week have been found dead, the mine’s president said Wednesday.
Mexican authorities on Monday were still investigating who was responsible for a car bomb found in Ciudad Juarez and later disarmed with a controlled explosion by federal police.
Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed a suit against Chevron and oil rig operator Transocean Ltd for 20 billion reais, about $11 billion, in response to an oil spill in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro last month.
The death toll attributed to Hurricane Tomas, which swept through the West Indies island of St. Lucia last weekend, rose Tuesday to 12 and Prime Minister Stephenson King issued a declaration of disaster.
Tropical Storm Alex became a minimal hurricane with top winds of 75 mph Tuesday night as it headed toward the Gulf Coast near the U.S.-Mexico border, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Two weeks after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Daniel Rouzier stood in front of heaps of bodies, dumped unceremoniously in the valleys of Titanyen. He clutched a mahogany rosary and covered his face with a sterile mask — the stench of decomposing human flesh carried with the breeze.
As my tweet reported in real time on the 30th July – Cho and I have been spat out of the jungle for the very last time.
Pascal Clemens arrived in Acapulco 17 years ago. The native of Germany who owns a real estate company in the Mexican beach resort says he immediately fell in love with the place. His original plan was to move to New York, but he couldn’t get enough of the sunny beaches, friendly people, cool breezes, and above all, the spectacular weather in Acapulco.
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