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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.
On the heels of an exiled despot’s arrival in Port-au-Prince, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says he is ready to return to help his troubled homeland, an idea welcomed by some and reviled by others who fear a deepening crisis.
Gunmen opened fire at two different bars in northern Mexico, killing nine people and injuring 12, Mexico’s state news agency reported Sunday, citing the attorney general’s office.
Karl was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Thursday, the National Hurricane Center reported.
For one trapped miner in a collapsed mine in Chile, “Hope” weighs only 7 pounds.
Ecuador teetered on the verge of a government collapse Thursday, as national police took to the streets of Quito, the capital, and physically attacked the president over what police say was the cancellation of bonuses and promotions.
The death toll from flooding and mudslides in Brazil continued to climb Thursday, with official reports of at least 154 fatalities.
Brazil will have its second-best harvest in the nation’s history this year, the government said.
Tomas weakened to a tropical storm Sunday and was churning in the Caribbean after pounding the island of St. Vincent with gusty winds and heavy rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hundreds of pro-government demonstrators in Havana, Cuba, chanted “this street belongs to Fidel” as they surrounded a slow-moving march of human rights protesters Thursday.
Twenty-two Colombian guerrillas were killed Sunday in an airstrike, the country’s defense minister said.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
At a shelter near Mexico City, Belkis Nunez is recovering.
Ten people died and more than 8,000 were left homeless in southern Brazil after heavy rain began pelting the area Friday, civil defense officials from three states reported. The rain had mostly moved out of the area by Monday.
Mexican authorities have recovered 10 bodies and expect to pull out more from a mass grave in a village outside of Acapulco, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing police.
Two Canadian fighter jets on Saturday escorted a Cathay Pacific Airways flight into Vancouver International Airport in response to a “potential threat” to the flight, according to a NORAD official.
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