A spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that up to 3 million people may have been affected by Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti as aid organizations and governments deployed response teams and pledged resources to the disaster-stricken Caribbean nation.
Two American immigration and customs officers driving across Mexico on Monday were shot and “seriously wounded” by unidentified gunmen, according to U.S officials.
The mayor of a small town in western Mexico and his personal secretary were found dead Monday in the official’s truck, the government-run news service said.
A nation of desperate and grieving people showed the fervency of their faith Saturday in this earthquake-ravaged capital.
We found him on a Sunday morning, as an outdoor service came to a close at what was once the Notre Dame cathedral. When the hymns faded, we picked through the carcass of the building, and there he was among the collapsed walls, his slender body framed by piles of rubble and blue sky attempting to peek through after a hard rain.
Four people died and at least 30,000 residents in southern Mexico were affected by heavy rain and winds from the former Tropical Storm Frank, which intensified into a hurricane Wednesday morning as it moved out into the Pacific Ocean, the government-run Notimex news agency said.
Three men arrested as suspects in a homegrown Canadian terror group “are not card-carrying members of al Qaeda, but they follow in the movement and show common trends,” a Canadian government source close to the ongoing terror investigation told CNN on Friday.
Two bodies dangling from a pedestrian bridge in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, created an image as gruesome as any in the four years of the country’s offensive against the drug cartels.
Homicide police in San Diego, California, are investigating Monday’s death of a Mexican man who was beaten and tasered by U.S. border agents three days earlier, officials said.
The editor and owner of a Venezuela newspaper under investigation by the government of President Hugo Chavez defended the editorial decision to publish a graphic photo that spurred the inquiry.
Aid started flowing into Haiti Wednesday in the wake of the earthquake that slammed the impoverished nation late Tuesday afternoon.
Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in the Mexican capital.
Cuban President Raul Castro turns 80 on Friday, vowing to rejuvenate the country’s aging leadership and its sagging economy.
A defiant Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa returned safely to the presidential palace late Thursday after spending hours held by police inside a hospital room outside Quito.
An Argentina federal court released a 423-page decree Tuesday detailing the facts against a former dictator sentenced last month to 25 years in prison for violating human rights.
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