Thousands begin evacuating in Japan as threat of tsunami nears
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Tens of thousands of residents began evacuating Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami following Chile’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
When the earth started to shake on January 12, Rocher Joseph-Michelet was in his tiny, one-room apartment, composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince.
A police investigation continued Thursday into a Catholic abuse scandal in Brazil, which erupted last week when a network aired a video that it said showed a priest having sex with a 19-year-old altar boy.
Brazilian voters head to the polls Sunday in a general election that spans across all levels of government, from the presidency to local offices.
The two leading candidates in Colombia’s presidential race will compete in a runoff June 20, since neither garnered more than 50 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election.
Jamaica’s prime minister Wednesday rejected allegations that he was “a known criminal affiliate” of a suspected drug lord, calling them “libellous,” “scurrilous” and “malicious.”
A strike in southern Chile over a hike in natural gas prices ended Tuesday after the federal government and city leaders reached an agreement.
Mexican federal authorities have arrested three suspects accused of kidnapping three journalists last week, officials announced Thursday.
U.S. diplomats on Friday called for the immediate release of an American who has been jailed in Cuba for months.
In what authorities described as an ambush-style, noontime attack by armed gunmen, three police officers were killed Wednesday in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, while patrolling outside an elementary school, a municipal police spokesman told CNN.
The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince’s St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.
Russia plans to help Venezuela build a nuclear power station, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has promised Haitians he is focused on maintaining donor solidarity as the quake-torn nation struggles to rebuild, the organization said.
A new video by trapped miners in Chile shows them in good spirits, with shaved faces, wearing new clothes and sleeping on camp beds.
About 5,000 Mexican motorists along the border near San Diego, California, protested the death of an illegal immigrant last week while in the custody of U.S. border agents, the Notimex news agency reported.
Mexican authorities over the weekend found 55 bodies inside a mine ventilation shaft that was used as a mass grave in the city of Taxco, officials said Monday.
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