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MEXICO CITY—Rescuers swarmed over rubble with shovels and picks on Thursday in a torturous search for survivors two days after Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in a generation, while politicians sought to outdo each other in donating party funds to help victims. As the arduous search through mountains of debris continued, signs of exhaustion crept in following […] -
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Hurricane Maria barreled toward the Turks and Caicos on Friday after lashing Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands with winds and rain that destroyed homes, caused flooding, devastated economies and left at least 32 people dead. Maria is the second major hurricane to hit the Caribbean this month and the strongest storm […] -
Video has emerged of a dog being rescued in the wake of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years. The now viral video posted on Twitter shows crowds of people hopeful people cheering as a dog, believed to be a golden retriever, is pulled out of some pieces of rubble alive and unhurt. More than 50 […] -
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera says a total of 115 people have died in the capital following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook the capital and nearby states. That would bring the nationwide death toll to 245. The latest quake struck around 90 miles southeast of Mexico City, shattering glass, shearing off the sides of buildings […] -
A researcher accidently discovered the bones of an ancient king while a team was finishing up excavation work for the season at the ancient Mayan capital of Waka. He reportedly stepped on the bones by accident, National Geographic reported. “He accidentally came into the foot of that tomb, and there they stared at the bones […] -
Rescuers frantically worked to dig a young girl out from under the rubble of a partially collapsed school on Wednesday, a small glimmer of hope amid devastation from a major earthquake that killed at least 225 people across central Mexico. Television network Televisa broadcast the dramatic rescue attempt live after crews at the school in […] -
An American tourist who was in Mexico City shooting a TV pilot when a magnitude-7.1 earthquake shook the area Tuesday, Sept. 19 shot video aboard a tourist boat in Xochilimco as it rocked in the waves. Alyne Tamir, who captured the footage, told Storyful that being on a boat during the earthquake was “very scary,” and […]
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Hours after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Mexico, President Donald Trump said that the United States is standing with its southern neighbor and will be there for them. “God bless the people of Mexico City. We are with you and will be there for you,” the president wrote on Twitter. The quake’s epicenter was some […] -
MEXICO CITY—Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried under a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings wrecked by the country’s most lethal earthquake in a generation. The magnitude 7.1 shock killed at least 217 people, nearly half of them in the capital, […] -
MEXICO CITY—7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and trapping an unknown number of people. TV images showed a multi-story building in the capital with a middle floor collapsed as sirens blared from first responders rushing to the scene. Other video showed the side of a government building sheering off and falling into […] -
The French island of Martinique escaped Hurricane Maria largely unscathed but a communications blackout with Guadeloupe meant it would be several more hours before damage there could be assessed, a senior French Civil Protection official said on Tuesday. Maria, the second major storm to hit the Caribbean this month, lashed Guadeloupe‘s southern shores as it tracked northwest toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto […] -
PONCE, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria, the second major storm to hit the Caribbean this month, crept toward the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday after it ripped through the small island nation of Dominica, causing widespread devastation. Hurricane Maria, an “extremely dangerous” storm, regained Category 5 strength as it churned about 205 miles southeast of […] -
Hurricane Maria is strengthening fast. It is now a Category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph, according to a post from the U.S. National Hurricane Center in an 8 a.m. post on Monday, Sept. 18. Maria is approaching the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, and it may strengthen to a Category 4 storm before hitting […] -
A second powerful storm in as many weeks was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands, with forecasters saying Maria would strengthen rapidly into a major hurricane as it ripped into the Leeward Islands on Monday night. Maria‘s strength was building as it approached the Lesser Antilles, the U.S. National HurricaneCenter said, estimating its winds near 90 miles […] -
A second powerful storm in as many weeks was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands, with forecasters saying that Maria had strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday and would intensify before hitting the Leeward Islands on Monday night. Maria was about 275 miles east-southeast of the Leeward island of Dominica with maximum […] -
Violet Moss-Brown held the title of world’s oldest person for only five months before dying at age 117. Brown was born on March 10, 1900. She was the last living subject of Queen Victoria, due to Jamaica’s status as a British Commonwealth country. She was quite a celebrity in her hometown of Trelawny, in northwest Jamaica. […] -
MADRID—Armed police in Spain have raided several print works and newspaper offices in Catalonia in recent days in a hunt for voting papers, ballot boxes and leaflets to be used in an Oct. 1 independence referendum which Madrid vehemently opposes. The searches are part of a concerted effort by the government to prevent the ballot […] -
No one is now living on a small Caribbean island deemed uninhabitable after Hurricane Irma decimated it on Sept. 6. The island of Barbuda, part of the Antigua and Barbuda nation, is only about 15 miles long and about 6 miles wide. It bore the full brunt of Irma’s 185 mph winds. Some 95 percent […] -
BRASILIA—Brazil’s federal police conducted a raid and search operation at the house of Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi in Brasilia, related to an ongoing bribery and graft scandal, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said on Thursday (September 14). According to the source, the raid is linked to a plea deal by former Mato […] -
Hurricane Max has formed off the coast of southern Mexico and is forecast to hit southwestern Mexico later on Thursday, according to a 7 a.m. update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The hurricane, a Category 1 system with winds of 75 mph, is moving 6 mph. Max is currently located about 55 miles southwest […]
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