Hurricane Matthew ripped through Haiti as a Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds on Tuesday, leaving villages flooded, roofs ripped from houses — and a rising death roll. The country’s Directorate for Civil Protection
As Hurricane Matthew bears down on the southeastern portion of the country, residents of coastal communities in the south are not the only ones preparing their next move. Airlines and airports are working around the
The United Nations is set to hold a formal vote tomorrow to elect Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres as its next secretary-general. The Security Council agreed unanimously on Wednesday that Guterres should be the
A landmark agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, backed by a coalition of the world’s largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas. U.N. Spokesman Farhan Haq said
President Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters today for a briefing from his homeland security team on the latest updates with Hurricane Matthew, which is currently barreling through the Caribbean and headed for
With the hours counting down until Hurricane Matthew is expected to slam into the coastal United States, widespread evacuations are taking effect as residents brace for the most powerful Atlantic storm in almost a decade.
Evacuations are underway in Florida and South Carolina to move people away from the vulnerable coastline as Hurricane Matthew continues its trek toward the East Coast. Mandatory evacuations started in central Florida’s Brevard County on
A knife-wielding man stabbed two police officers in Brussels Wednesday in an incident that may be terror-related, Belgian prosecutors said. It was the latest attack on law enforcement officials in a nation that has been
