Two trains collided head on Tuesday morning in northwestern Mexico, leaving at least 10 dead and five injured, state news agency Notimex reported.
Tropical Storm Karl picked up speed Tuesday night in the northwest Caribbean Sea, prompting coastal warnings by the Mexican government, the National Hurricane Center said.
A judge in Haiti said he expects to make a decision soon on the possible release of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the earthquake in January.
As the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Ophelia fizzled in the Caribbean, another storm — Philippe — continued to gain strength Sunday in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Haiti’s economy is getting a boost thanks to a venture with one of Korea’s largest companies that promises to bring 20,000 garment industry jobs to a new industrial park in the north of the country.
The cholera outbreak that killed more than 4,500 people in Haiti last year was linked to peacekeepers from Nepal, a new report says, a conclusion previously resisted by at least some United Nations officials.
Spanish oil company Repsol is in “the exploration stage” of oil drilling off of Cuba’s northern coast, prompting a controversy in south Florida over fears of a potential spill.
The death toll in a coal mine explosion in Colombia increased to 18 Friday with the early morning recovery of two more bodies, a state government spokesman said.
French rescuers in Haiti on Wednesday pulled from rubble a girl who they believe could have been trapped since the January 12 earthquake.
She pouts her collagen-filled lips and totters on golden stilettos as she parades down the catwalk. Camera flashes pop in the shaky video recording of the photo shoot. Colombian model Angie Sanclemente is an object of desire.
An explosion Thursday at a Mexican electrical substation injured 12 people, most of them firefighters or other rescue personnel, the state-run news agency reported.
Mexican army special forces have arrested a top lieutenant for alleged drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Defense Ministry said Monday.
The death toll from heavy floods and mudslides in Mexico has increased to 38, a government agency announced Tuesday.
The cancerous tumor affecting the larynx of former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has shrunk in size by about 75% after treatment with chemotherapy — a greater reduction than had been expected, his medical team said Monday, according to the state-run Agencia Brasil.
Gunmen ambushed and killed three state prosecutors in front of a school in the border city of Juarez on Wednesday, authorities said.
Colombia’s president planned to address the nation Monday night about torrential rains and massive floods that have claimed 91 lives so far this year.
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