Ecuador mine collapses, four trapped
Source: News 24
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2011-02-13 22:27:48 -0800 | green-news
Four miners were trapped 150m down a mine on Friday, after a collapse in Portovelo, in Ecuador's southwest coastal province of El Oro, a civil defense source told AFP. "Four miners are trapped at the fifth level of the mine,...
Residents Near Chilean Volcano Urged to Stay Away
Source: Fox
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2011-08-17 21:56:29 -0700 | green-news
A cloud of volcanic ashes and smoke from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano is seen from Entrelagos, in southern Chile, Friday, June 10, 2011. Chile Chilean officials ordered most residents already evacuated from homes near an erupting volcano to stay...
VIDEO: Chile volcanoes 'turned sky dark'
Source: BBC
San Carlos :: Venezuela | updated 2011-08-09 04:15:56 -0700 | green-news
Chile volcano ash 'turned sky dark', says eyewitness 5 June 2011 Last updated at 11:13 ET A chain of volcanoes has erupted in southern Chile, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Large columns of smoke have been rising from...
Wildfire Moves Closer Toward N.M. Nuclear Lab
Source: Fox
Los Álamos :: Chile | updated 2012-11-01 21:35:57 -0700 | green-news
Flames from the Las Conchas fire burn in the hills above Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear facility. N.M. -- A wildfire near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor...
Venezuela's Chavez upbeat over Cuba cancer checks
Source: Reuters
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated 2011-12-19 02:25:21 -0800 | political-news
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez addresses the Council of Ministers at Miraflores Palace in Caracas October 15, 2011. Venezuela's ailing President Hugo Chavez has been sending positive messages from Cuba during cancer checks, while at home allies are fuming at a...
Uncertainty over Chavez absence
Source: BBC
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated 2012-11-01 20:39:49 -0700 | political-news
Absence of ill Hugo Chavez sparks speculation Media were given a picture of Mr Chavez being visited in hospital by Fidel and Raul Castro, but aside from that he has not been since his operation There is growing uncertainty in...
Venezuela's Chavez finishes third chemo session
Source: Reuters
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated 2011-11-03 18:03:14 -0700 | political-news
Analysis & Opinion Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) smiles at a military hospital in Caracas August 27, 2011. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ended a third round of chemotherapy on Friday, saying he "couldn't feel better" as he led a caravan...
Nationwide emergency alert system test Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Source: Merced Sun-Star
South Lake Tahoe :: CA :: USA | updated 2012-01-09 09:48:06 -0800 | green-news
Federal Communications Commission will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 11 a.m...EAS is a national alert and warning system established to enable the President of the United States to address the...
Cuba releases Guevara's revolution diary
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2011-10-05 03:21:27 -0700 | political-news
June 15, 2011 Publishing sensation ... revolutionary and diarist Che Guevara, left. Cuba has published the diary revolutionary icon Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara kept during the guerrilla campaign that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. Diary of a Combatant recounts...
Drug submarine seized in Colombia
Source: BBC
Buenaventura :: Colombia | updated 2011-11-25 17:47:33 -0800 | political-news
Farc's drug submarine seized in Colombia The submarine cost about $2m and could hold a crew of five, officials say Police in Colombia have seized a submarine belonging to Farc rebels which had the capacity to carry at least seven...
If you go down to Los Alamos today... Bears and other wildlife displaced by forest fires invade ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Los Álamos :: Chile | updated 2011-09-08 07:03:44 -0700 | technology-news
Brown bears have invaded deserted Los Alamos and as residents return home they are being warned about their new guests New Mex ico police said in the warning: 'The natural food supply in the Las Conchas Fire area has been...
Gitmo trial for US Navy bomber
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2011-11-30 17:11:48 -0800 | political-news
Carol Rosenberg, Miami September 30, 2011 Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri...Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri is one of three detainees the CIA has admitted to waterboarding, and his harsh treatment at the hands of US interrogators is expected to play...
STIFF FINES, JAIL
Source: News Day
Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | updated 2011-10-30 14:58:18 -0700 | sports-news
Anand Ramlogan yesterday announced that any citizen who breaks the 9 pm to 5 am curfew in the six designated areas in the country during the current state of emergency could face a fine of $3,000 and be imprisoned for...
Haitian Protesters Demand Ouster of UN Troops
Source: Voice of America
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2011-12-12 11:53:16 -0800 | political-news
Police in Haiti have clashed with hundreds of protesters demanding United Nations troops leave the country after peacekeepers allegedly sexually assaulted a young man. Police in the capital city of Port-au-Prince fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators Wednesday, while...
Prisons in Venezuela: The fifth circle of hell
Source: The Economist
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated 2012-11-01 21:21:29 -0700 | health-news
El Rodeo jail complex outside Caracas turned into a shoot-out between gangs. In the firefight 27 people reportedly died, and over 70 were injured. Three more were killed when National Guard troops retook the jail's Rodeo I unit, where they...
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