Watchdog: Attacks on journalists in Mexico threaten press freedom
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Violence against journalists in Mexico continues with impunity and has resulted in self-censorship that threatens Mexicans’ right of freedom of expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report released Wednesday.
A pregnant 10-year-old, allegedly raped by her stepfather, has become the latest lightning rod in the country’s heated abortion debate.
A broad array of international donors pledged nearly $10 billion in long-term assistance to Haiti’s earthquake recovery efforts during a daylong conference at United Nations headquarters.
In the eerie light of a supermarket storage room, an international team of rescue workers waited for a miracle.
Vladimir Saint-Louis is glad to be back in business months after January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti shut down his large athletic complex in the heart of Port-au-Prince.
Haiti’s government appeared Tuesday to have lost control of Cap Haitien, where demonstrators angry over what they see as the United Nations’ role in starting the ongoing cholera epidemic controlled many of the streets for a second consecutive day.
Tomas became a Category 1 hurricane as it approached Haiti early Friday, forecasters said.
Sitting in the shade away from the heat, Jean Frank is making a fishing net that he hopes will help him return to his life as a fisherman.
For months, the men waited in isolation, struggling to survive. They forced themselves to eat the flesh of dead friends to sustain themselves.
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a law allowing for adoption by gay couples in Mexico City is legal.
One passenger was killed after an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart while attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
Haiti’s earthquake is creating “a generation of amputees,” something that will pose a challenge for Haitian society for years to come, experts say.
Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have been blamed for 123 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, officials said Wednesday.
Venezuelan inspectors, aided by the military, shut down 70 stores Monday as a sanction for allegedly adjusting prices in the wake of a currency devaluation last week, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported, citing the inspection agency.
A woman convicted of collaborating with the notorious Colombian guerrilla group FARC has been deported, U.S. immigration officials said Thursday.
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