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Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor

Reuters US Online Report World News 8 days ago

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say. Soup kitchens have closed, medicines have ...

Floods, landslides kill 144 in El Salvador

AFP Global Edition 10 days ago

Rescue workers in El Salvador on Tuesday tried to reach dozens of towns cut off by torrents of mud and debris unleashed by devastating late-season storms that killed at least 144 people. The total number of dead rose to 144, civil protection ...

Floods, landslides kill 136 in El Salvador

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

Rescue workers combed through mud, rubble and debris in search of survivors from raging floods and landslides that killed at least 136 people, after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of Central America. Landslides and overflowing rivers swept away entire homes, while a ...

Honduras Elections

AP News 11 days ago

Honduras' independent presidential candidate Carlos H. Reyes leaves the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Reyes, an ally of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya, announced Monday he will not run in the country's upcoming elections. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) Copyright ...

Floods, landslides kill 130 in El Salvador

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

Floods and landslides had killed at least 130 people in El Salvador and forced 10,000 from their homes Monday after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of mountainous Central America. Landslides and overflowing rivers swept away entire homes, while a raging torrent ripped ...

Honduras finds alleged drug landing strip

AP News 11 days ago

Honduras finds secret airstrip on farm owned by slain lawmaker suspected of drug trafficking Honduran authorities said Monday that they have discovered a secret landing strip on property once owned by a slain congressman suspected of trafficking in precursor chemicals for methamphetamine. ...

Floods, landslides kill 124 in El Salvador

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

Floods and landslides left at least 124 people dead in El Salvador on Monday after a late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America and took aim for the United States. Landslides and overflowing rivers carried away houses, while a raging torrent ripped ...

Gunmen ambush, shoot at Honduras AG; no injuries

AP News 12 days ago

Honduras' attorney general escapes unharmed after gunmen open fire on his convoy Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Honduras' top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards were harmed, police said Sunday. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was ...

Honduras leadership in limbo as accord dissolves

AP News 14 days ago

Future of U.S.-brokered accord grim as Hondurans head for elections They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after a coup, says the ...

US urges Honduran unity government

AP News 14 days ago

US disappointed Honduras hasn't formed a unity government The State Department is expressing disappointment that Honduras has failed to form a unity government. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Friday that "it is urgent that this government be created immediately." Former ...

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