Two strong aftershocks shook parts of Chile on Friday morning, hours before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to meet with Chilean President Michele Bachelet and her successor.
For almost half a century the chewing of coca leaves, a practice dating back thousands of years, has been banned internationally. Now, Bolivia is urging countries to back a campaign to have coca removed from a United Nations list of banned drugs.
Franklin Lobos and Jorge Galeguillos were driving a Nissan pickup truck into the San Jose copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile, when the Earth shook.
A hurricane watch was issued Monday for portions of the Texas and Mexico coasts ahead of Tropical Storm Hermine, which forecasters said could approach hurricane strength before making landfall late Monday or early Tuesday.
Oh, the motorcades. Those endless traffic jams. The security barriers one must navigate just to cross the street for a cup of coffee. New Yorkers know the madness can only mean one thing: the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.
At least 16 people died and more than 15 others were missing Thursday after heavy overnight rains caused severe mudslides in parts of Costa Rica, the nation’s Red Cross said.
Aid started flowing into Haiti Wednesday in the wake of the earthquake that slammed the impoverished nation late Tuesday afternoon.
Officials in Costa Rica worked Friday to mop up the damage after heavy rain and mud slides buried homes and killed at least 23 people in the Central American country, authorities said.
The number of Mexican migrants returning to their country — mainly from the United States — has increased dramatically in the last five years compared with the previous five years.
A jaguar that escaped and killed a U.S. citizen in Belize has been captured.
Six of the suspected gunmen responsible for the killings of 72 migrants in Mexico have been identified, Mexican authorities said Monday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
A “Plan C” oil drill to reach 33 miners trapped in Chile is scheduled to start in earnest early Wednesday amid hopes it will provide a faster solution than the other two methods used so far.
Igor is now an Atlantic Ocean hurricane and could reach significant strength by Monday, the National Hurricane Center reported Saturday night.
Eduardo Ravani Jr. was photographing a wedding reception early Saturday at Las Terrazas dela Reina on the hills overlooking Santiago, Chile, when the party disc jockey told him: “Hey, I think the building is moving.”
Prosecutors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, are investigating clashes between authorities and homeless squatters in a vacant park that left three people dead and 14 others injured last week, state media reported.
Tropical Storm Matthew battered Honduras with heavy rains and winds Friday night, bringing with it a threat of flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.
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