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12 Mar 2010 at 6:39pm![]() AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is heading to Haiti on Sunday for his second visit since the devastating earthquake to prepare for the upcoming donors conference to raise money for reconstruction. 12 Mar 2010 at 6:15pm ![]() AP - Chile may need to spend twice as much as Haiti to recover from its devastating quake and tsunami, but it doesn't have the same desperate need for international aid or generous loans. 12 Mar 2010 at 5:18pm ![]() Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti on Sunday to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said. 12 Mar 2010 at 5:17pm ![]() AP - Peruvian officials say they expect train service to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu will be restored March 29. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:30pm ![]() AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:28pm ![]() AFP - Newly installed Chilean President Sebastian Pinera estimated Friday it would cost 30 billion dollars to rebuild the nation after last month's devastating quake. 12 Mar 2010 at 2:53pm ![]() AP - The last of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping is facing a new charge. 12 Mar 2010 at 2:43pm AP - A Cuban hunger striker was receiving fluids and medical care in a government hospital Friday, a day after passing out at home, and has refused requests by other dissidents and religious leaders to abandon his protest. 12 Mar 2010 at 2:19pm AP - Peru is creating a tsunami-warning system to help protect 1.6 million residents who live along the South American country's Pacific coast. 12 Mar 2010 at 12:51pm ![]() AFP - Two months after Haiti's January 12 earthquake, aids groups were still scrambling Friday to provide for the 1.3 million people left homeless amid growing insecurity in Port-au-Prince. 12 Mar 2010 at 9:42am AP - Michelle Obama will make her first solo trip abroad as first lady next month when she visits Mexico. 12 Mar 2010 at 9:14am Reuters - First lady Michelle Obama will visit Mexico next month on her first solo international trip, the White House said on Friday. 12 Mar 2010 at 6:11am ![]() AP - Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:46am AP - An official says two European aid workers kidnapped in Haiti and later released were from the Czech Republic and Belgium. 12 Mar 2010 at 1:39am ![]() AFP - Strong aftershocks and a tsunami alert rattled nerves in Chile, as rightwing billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president of the quake-hit nation. |
12 Mar 2010 at 3:28pm Peru is creating a tsunami-warning system to help protect 1.6 million residents who live along the South American country's Pacific coast. 12 Mar 2010 at 10:51am Portuguese police have arrested a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA in Lisbon as he tried to board a flight to the Venezuelan capital Caracas, Spanish media reported Friday. 12 Mar 2010 at 6:25am A Rio de Janeiro State Judge Thursday ordered Air France to pay $1.15 million in compensation to the family of a state official who died in the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet into the Atlantic. 12 Mar 2010 at 1:58am Amalia Saez is mayor of the industrial city of Barquisimeto in northwestern Venezuela. 11 Mar 2010 at 9:21pm Lula Says Brazil In Good Shape RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that his country is in good shape thanks to eight years of efforts to improve the economy. 11 Mar 2010 at 4:42pm President Barack Obama is applauding Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for accepting a court decision that prevents him from running for a third term. 11 Mar 2010 at 11:55am The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed by weather conditions and trouble getting a search ship to Brazil, officials said Thursday. 11 Mar 2010 at 7:22am Online vacation rental giant HomeAway this morning announced that it is expanding its global footprint and moving into South America with the acquisition of the publisher of AlugueTemporada.com.br , Brazil's leading vacation rental site. 11 Mar 2010 at 2:53am Charlotte/Douglas International Airport plans to begin design work next month on a 120-foot extension of Concourse E, which will include two new gates for international flights. 10 Mar 2010 at 10:22pm The Red Cross has doubled its aid appeal for Chileans made homeless by last month's massive earthquake, saying the costs of the disaster will be greater than anticipated. 10 Mar 2010 at 5:48pm The Earth really did move during last month's massive Chile quake, which killed hundreds of people and left two million homeless. 10 Mar 2010 at 1:16pm President Michelle Bachelet leaves office on Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins - and her popularity in the clouds. 10 Mar 2010 at 8:31am 's presidency Thursday, has sustained the record 84-percent approval rate despite strong criticism of government performance during the nation's earthquake emergency, according to a new poll released Tuesday. 10 Mar 2010 at 4:06am Brazil's president says a recent health scare led him to quit smoking - a habit he's had for 50 years. 9 Mar 2010 at 11:29pm They may have a better understanding of what we want to do, Bernardo Figueiredo, head of the National Land Transport Agency, known as ANTT, said in an interview from Brasilia. |
11 Mar 2010 at 11:10pm Argentine police are investigating a spectacular assault on a Buenos Aires bank amid the trial of those accused of pulling off the 2006 heist dubbed the 'robbery of the century'. 11 Mar 2010 at 10:10pm Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras has said that it discovered oil at a block in eastern Colombia. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:32pm LIMA, Peru — Peru is creating a tsunami-warning system to help protect 1.6 million residents who live along the South American country's Pacific coast. President Alan Garcia has ordered funding... 12 Mar 2010 at 4:30pm NEW DELHI: India's disastrous hockey World Cup campaign ended with a 2-4 defeat against Argentina as the hosts finished a lowly eighth in the mega-event on Friday. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:19pm END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> It is a boom that has turned to bust, threatening the livelihood of Falkland is... 12 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm (AP) CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela says it will favor keeping oil production quotas unchanged at an OPEC meeting next week. Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez told reporters that it wou... 12 Mar 2010 at 3:21pm Obama, Haitian President to Meet at White House The United Nations Environment Program warns Haiti's recovery process will be greatly constrained if the environmental degradation suffered during the c... 12 Mar 2010 at 3:21pm US Pro-Democracy Stance Has Limited Impact in Mideast, New Study Suggests A new study finds the number of democracies in the world remained relatively stable in the past few years, but the quality of ... 12 Mar 2010 at 2:54pm 2009 Human Rights Report's damning criticism of the program. "AIS is the best scheme that Colombian has produced in the agricultural sector... There were only ten instances of people taking advantage... 12 Mar 2010 at 2:54pm Colombian authorities on Friday seized over 300 kilos of explosives from a house in the central city of Neiva, allegedly belonging to guerrilla group FARC and intended for the sabotage of Sunday's con... 12 Mar 2010 at 2:39pm The crisis that has emerged between Vale and Inco executives threatens to damage Brazil's status as an emerging economic powerhouse seeking to spread its tentacles worldwide. However, it has also bee... 12 Mar 2010 at 2:33pm Peru (AP) — Peru is creating a tsunami-warning system to help protect 1.6 million residents who live along the South American country's Pacific coast. President Alan Garcia has ordered funding b... 12 Mar 2010 at 1:27pm Russia Gripped by Car Crashes Involving Police, Privileged Russia is sending doctors and medical supplies to Chile, as part of relief efforts to help Chileans recover from last month's devastating ear... 12 Mar 2010 at 1:12pm HAVANA -- A Cuban hunger striker was receiving fluids and medical care in a government hospital Friday, a day after passing out at home, and has refused requests by other dissidents and religious lea... 12 Mar 2010 at 1:03pm Brasilia - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will express his country's support for peace efforts in the Middle East when he travels to the region on Saturday. Lula, who is to visit Israel... |
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