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4-Year-Old Girl Sent to Guatemala in Immigration Dispute Returns to NY
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA 4-year-old girl sent back to her family's native Guatemala in an immigration dispute earlier this month has returned home to New York, where she was reunited with her family early today. Emily Ruiz, who hadn't seen her family in five months, was greeted with hugs from her mother at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, The New York Times reported. "We are so happy that Emily has finally been reunited with her family in the United States, where she belongs," her parents' lawyer, David Sperling, told The Associated Press. Sperling accompanied Emily on the flight, the AP said. The dispute ...
2010's Worst Disasters in Photos
By not in system - AOL NewsFor millions of people around the world, 2010 was the year the earth shook, volcanoes erupted and the weather brought deadly extremes. Click though the gallery below to see some of the most striking images from the year's natural disasters. To help disaster victims, go to Network for Good. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=965958&pid=965957&uts=1292619354 ...
Obama Orders Review of 'Human Subjects' Safety
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 24) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered a vast review to ensure that those who take part in U.S.-backed research are treated ethically, a response to the revelation that American scientists intentionally infected people at a Guatemalan mental hospital with syphilis in the 1940s. In a memo released by the White House, Obama announced a review of both federal and international standards to guard the health and well-being of research participants, known as human subjects. He also ordered a fresh investigation into what happened in the widely condemned Guatemalan ...
US Apologizes for Infecting Guatemalans With STDs
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 1) -- The United States has not been kind to Guatemala. On Tuesday, Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby discovered that the United States conducted Tuskegee-like experiments on unwitting Guatemalans during the '40s, infecting them with syphilis and gonorrhea. (Here's her paper.) MSNBC reports: According to Reverby's report, the Guatemalan project was co-sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, the NIH, the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau (now the Pan American Health Organization) and the Guatemalan government. The experiments involved 696 subjects -- male prisoners and ...
Matthew Drops to Depression, Soaks Central America
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GUATEMALA CITY (Sept. 25) -- Matthew weakened to a tropical depression Saturday along the coast of Belize, dousing the southern part of the Central American nation and neighboring Guatemala with rain that caused flooding in coastal areas. Guatemalan authorities urged people to stay off the roads as floods hit several towns in eastern and northern Guatemala. Civil Defense operations commander Sergio Cabanas said flooding was reported in Izabal and Peten provinces, and there were concerns about people staying in their homes. "The problem is that people have refused to be taken to shelters, ...
Death Toll Rises in Guatemala Mudslides; More Missing
By not in system - AOL NewsGUATEMALA CITY (Sept. 6) -- Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country. Authorities said 25 people are confirmed dead and at least 15 are believed to be still buried beneath the debris in the village of Nahuala, where a first mudslide buried a bus and other vehicles, then a second one turned would-be rescuers into victims. At least 20 others died over the weekend ...
Dozens Dead, Scores Missing in Mudslides in Guatemala
By not in system - AOL NewsNAHUALA, Guatemala (Sept. 5) -- Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud. In the village of Nahuala, about 200 rescue workers suspended the search for bodies Sunday afternoon after heavy rain fell in the area, Civil Protection spokesman David de Leon said. Two slides in the same spot in the town of Nahuala killed at least 20 along a highway leading northwest of the capital toward Mexico. Another slide closer to Guatemala City killed at least ...
Video: Tampa Sinkhole Swallows Car
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 12) -- For the second time in two months, the ground has suddenly opened up and claimed a prize. Residents of a Tampa, Fla., condominium complex were evacuated from their homes on Sunday after a 20-foot-wide sinkhole appeared in a parking lot, taking a Toyota Camry along with it. Eleven families at the Bordeaux Village Condominiums have been forced to relocate as crews work on stabilizing the growing hole, the St. Petersburg Times reported. As Surge Desk's Carl Franzen reported after a massive sinkhole swallowed an apartment building in Guatemala, sinkholes are fairly common both ...
Ecuador Authorities, DEA Seize Drug-Smuggling Sub
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 3) - The Drug Enforcement Administration said Saturday it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine. DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. Ecuadorian authorities seized the sub before it could make its maiden voyage. AP Photo/Ecuadorian National Police/DEA The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed it helped seize this diesel electric-powered submarine, which was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a ...
Strengthening Alex Expected to Become Hurricane
By not in system - AOL NewsVILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (June 29) -- A strengthening Tropical Storm Alex was expected to become a hurricane Tuesday as it swirled toward the Gulf coast of northern Mexico and southern Texas, where authorities were readying emergency shelters and distributing sandbags. Forecasters said the storm's likely path would take it away from the site of the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill off Louisiana's coast, but added that it might push oil farther inland and disrupt cleanup efforts. Alex had maximum sustained winds near 70 mph (110 kph) early Tuesday, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami ...
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