WASHINGTON, D.C. – Victims of Haiti's deadly post-earthquake cholera epidemic filed a new lawsuit Tuesday against the United Nations in U.S. federal court, demanding compensation over the organization's alleged responsibility for the outbreak.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – For the first time, a Haitian has been named a cardinal – and he's vowing to "bring the reality" of his tiny, impoverished Caribbean country "into the heart of the Vatican."
The first major earthquake of 2014 rocked Costa Rica around 3:02 p.m. Friday. The epicenter of the magnitude-5.2 temblor was about 30 kilometers off the central Pacific coast, just southwest of Jacó, according to the University of Costa Rica's National Seismological Network and other reports.
A magnitude-5.2 tremor shakes Costa Rica's Pacific coast, a couple days after a magnitude-5.3 quake rattled the same part of the country. In both cases, no damage or injuries were repoted.
