The 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks spoke directly with family members for the first time Sunday, as officials worked to keep the men’s spirits and health in good shape.
A U.S. federal appeals court Friday overturned a court decision to release a Guantanamo detainee accused of helping al Qaeda.
The executive director of American Ballet Theatre said Tuesday she hopes to help bridge the divide between Cuba and the United States when the company performs in Havana this fall for the first time in 50 years.
The Army may have known months ago about serious misconduct — including the apparently unprovoked murder of a civilian — by members of a platoon in Afghanistan but failed to act on it before at least one other murder occurred.
Heavily populated parts of Chile still were without water service and electricity Sunday night because of Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.
Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in Chile are depending on food, medicine and supplies being dropped to them through a 4-inch-wide tube.
The death toll from a powerful car bomb Wednesday morning in Buenaventura, Colombia, rose to six as the day went on, with at least 42 people wounded, authorities said.
Thousands of families living on mountain slopes or on river banks in Brazil face “extreme risk” of being washed away in heavy rains and flooding that have killed more than 400 people, authorities said Thursday.
The Pan American Health Organization announced Tuesday it is increasing its planning to treat 400,000 cholera cases within the next year, up from a previous estimate of 270,000 over several years as a result of the outbreak in Haiti, an official said Tuesday.
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in two separate attacks in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, state media said.
A weakened Tropical Storm Tomas could re-intensify into a rare November hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Mexico’s top security official says the Sinaloa drug cartel was likely behind the kidnapping of a group of four journalists, two of whom were freed in a police rescue.
An Argentinean court has charged and ordered the arrest of a man who allegedly fathered ten children with his daughter, a local government agency reported Saturday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon vowed Wednesday that his government “will act to the maximum of our capabilities” to restore order to the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month, not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage.
Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing significant damage in at least one city, the country’s newly inaugurated president said Thursday.
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