Aid workers are warning that severe flooding across Central America could worsen the impact of high food prices on the region’s vulnerable communities. Floods and landslides have forced tens of thousands from their homes, damaged roads and bridges, and devastated …
Hurricane Ike took aim at Cuba today after leaving 20 people dead in Haiti, where the death toll from a succession of powerful storms in the past few weeks now tops 600. Ike was downgraded today from a Category Four …
SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) — Haitian families scrambled onto rooftops and screamed for help Tuesday in a city flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and rescue convoys tried in vain to reach them. Iris Norsil, 20, managed to flee …