Brazil: one baby dead and 7 people missing as a boat sunk.
Posted by: Vicky247
Brasília :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-19 12:40:13 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A boat which was on a family party sank Sunday night in Lake Paranoá, in the center of Brasilia, leaving at least one baby died and seven people missing, the Fire Department of the Brazilian capital. According to survivors, between...
Uruguay: March for the missing after Congress' decision
Posted by: Vicky247
Montevideo :: Uruguay | updated 2012-04-19 12:40:24 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Uruguayan some 50,000 marched in silence on Friday by the nation's capital to commemorate the victims of the dictatorship (1973-1985), one of the most popular editions, hours after Congress decided to maintain an amnesty law. Thousands of people marched from...
Air disaster killed 22 people in Argentina
Posted by: Vicky247
Comodoro Rivadavia :: Argentina | updated 2012-04-19 12:40:33 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The accident occurred on the Plateau of Somuncurá Prahuaniyeu on the site of thePatagonian province of Rio Black, with 22 people on board. Ali Ismael, head of Hospital Los Menucos present in the area of the tragedy, said the press...
Six men charged over rape of British women in St Lucia
Posted by: anonymous
Canaries :: Saint Lucia | updated 2013-03-24 05:46:50 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Six men were charged with the rape of two British students on the Caribbean island of St Lucia, police had confirmed. The women, who were aged 24 and 31, had been ambushed by six masked men on Grande Anse beach...
St. Lucia gang rape charge: Six men accused of attack on British women
Posted by: Surya Gaire
Gros Islet :: Saint Lucia | updated 2012-07-25 16:24:11 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Six men have been charged with the rape of two British campers on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. The duo were identified as volunteers on a wildlife conservation project run by a British-based charity. Six men are currently being...
114-year-old Brazilian woman is the oldest of Humanity
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Carangola :: Brazil | updated 2012-03-11 20:16:46 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Valentim Maria Gomes, a Brazilian woman aged 114 years, became on Wednesday the oldest man in the Guinness Book of Records, dethroning American Besse Cooper, 48 days younger."Today (Wednesday) the Guinness Book of Records, world authority in the awarding of...
Georgia teen takes shoes off runners’ feet for Jamaican teens
Posted by: Jonalex
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2012-04-16 15:18:13 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A Georgia teen has created a unique charity drive towards his parents native country of Jamaica. All of Oneal Wanliss's life had been playing soccer within the United States while he was being raised in Georgia. Wanliss family in Jamaica...
Cholera threatens the poorest Dominicans
Posted by: Vicky247
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2012-04-19 12:15:55 -0700 | humanitarian-news
With its eight months pregnant, Lucia Montero fears spread of cholera, which this month began to spread in the neighborhood where he lives in Santo Domingo and in the last week affected his three sons and husband. The Health Ministry...
Siege: Bogotá River overflowed
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Antioquia :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-19 12:15:55 -0700 | humanitarian-news
At a time when the Colombian trying to recover from the storm that from April 2010 punishes good part of its territory, largely linked to the weather phenomenon La Niña , the output of the cause of the Bogota River...
Argentina Dirty War officers jailed for mass killing
Posted by: anonymous
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-03-24 05:46:51 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A court in northern Argentina had sentenced eight ex-army officers to life in jail for killing the unarmed activists during the military rule. Twenty-two people, who were mostly members of the Montoneros rebel group, had been tortured and killed on...
US pilots avoid jail in fatal Brazil air collision case
Posted by: anonymous
Mato Verde :: Brazil | updated 2013-03-24 05:46:52 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A Brazilian judge had sentenced two US pilots in absentia to four years and four months for their role during a brutal air crash over the Amazon in the year of 2006. Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino did not...
All the data from the black box of Airbus rescued.
Posted by: Vicky247
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-19 12:16:04 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The French researchers took an important step to elucidate the mystery about the crash of Rio-Paris flight, which killed 228 people nearly two years to rescue all the information enclosed in the plane's black boxes.The data contained in the two...
Headless bodies found in northern Guatemala drug region
Posted by: anonymous
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated 2013-03-24 05:46:54 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The decapitated bodies of about 25 men and two women were discovered near Guatemala's border with Mexico. The bodies had been found on a ranch in Peten province, about 500km north of the capital. Police had reported that the killings...
Kid lands up in Chile instead of Bolivia
Posted by: prabirghose
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2012-07-28 03:19:55 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The 10-year old kid was lonely. His mother was in prison serving a sentence for drug offences and had been released after 3 ½ years. The kid wanted to meet her and, he hopped on to a truck. He was...
Honduras police kill six in drug gang clash
Posted by: anonymous
Catacamas :: Honduras | updated 2013-03-24 05:46:58 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Honduran authorities had reported of six suspected drug traffickers had been shot dead in a gun battle with the police. The clash, which had happened in the city of Catacamas in Olancho province, had broken out when the police had...
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