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Elementary and middle school classes in the Mexican state of Nayarit will end Friday, three weeks early, due to concerns over safety, the governor announced.
Aid started flowing into Haiti Wednesday in the wake of the earthquake that slammed the impoverished nation late Tuesday afternoon.
The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California said Monday he is asking the federal government for a natural disaster declaration after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook the region.
Ten Mexican federal police were killed and several others wounded in an ambush on a convoy Monday, the government said.
A day after being rescued following 69 days trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile, all 33 men were briefly together again in a room at the hospital where they have been undergoing tests — and in some cases treatment — since their rescue, a hospital official said.
On the day of the funeral of a prominent social activist in Chihuahua, Mexico, a business she had ties with was burned down by a group of armed men, according to witnesses.
Karl was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Thursday, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Clad in a gold sequined bikini and topped with a feathered headdress, a curvy cabaret dancer strutted onstage.
The death toll rose to 75 Sunday on Brazil’s southeast coast after three days of torrential rains unleashed a series of deadly mudslides, an emergency official said.
Sure, Luke Mescher felt a trembling fear when the walls around him started to shake Saturday, but standing around confused and scared wasn’t an option.
Haitian officials have postponed a runoff election, originally scheduled for January 16, to decide the troubled nation’s next president.
Reginald DesRoches is deploying to Haiti to tag key infrastructure buildings with red, yellow and green markers — designations on whether they’re still usable.
Rescue workers searched Friday for four miners believed trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Ecuador, a government official said.
The deadly cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 1,100 lives in Haiti has now spread to yet another vulnerable community: the largest prison in the country.
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