A fire set by gangs at the country’s largest public hospital underscores long-simmering problems in Haiti, which is heavily dependent on international aid.

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More than half a million Haitian refugees who sought shelter and stability in the United States will lose protection against deportation this summer under a policy change by the Trump administration.

Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of Cuba's National Seismological Service, announced that a noticeable tremor was detected by ...

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The adage is very much on the minds of seismologists and engineers who worry about what might happen if India were rocked by a powerful quake. Haiti's experience, where 2,30,000 people are thought ...

USAID cuts are hitting especially hard in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere which is struggling with a surge in hunger, gang violence, malnutrition and diseases including cholera. ( ...

The NCS reported that the quake occurred at 6:10 a.m. on February 25. An India Meteorological Department official told news agency PTI that said the earthquake was recorded near Puri in Odisha.

In 1844, the Dominican Republic was granted independence from Haiti. In 1933, it was announced that President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use a 263-year-old tattered Dutch Bible that had ...

The quake was also felt in neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, and China. Details regarding the epicentre and impact of the seismic activity were not immediately clear. A magnitude 5 ...

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Fifteen years ago on February 27, a devastating 8.8 magnitude quake struck southern Chile off the coast of Concepcion, shaking the ground for four minutes and ...

People in North Sulawesi described the panic when the quake struck. “I had just woken up when I realised it was an earthquake. It was strong, swaying from side to side,” Ms Gita Waloni ...