Hurricane Iota set to become dangerous Category 4 as it nears Central America
The area is still recovering from the damage caused by Hurricane Eta.
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The area is still recovering from the damage caused by Hurricane Eta.
Fifteen people were confirmed dead and at least 109 were missing, many of them in a landslide, authorities in Guatemala said.
The storm touched down in Central America as a hurricane on Tuesday.
El Salvador said a quarter of the rain that the country normally receives in a year fell in 70 hours.
Dublin star Aisling Maher is back at it after living the Central American Dream last summer.
More than 6,000 people are currently in the Mexican city of Tijuana hoping to apply for asylum.
More than 300 Central American men, women and children were taken into custody as part of the operation.
A generation of women in Nicaragua are working to improve their lives in a society that isn’t always friendly to women.
A total of 19 countries are covered by the warning.
Their remains showed signs of torture, authorities in Guatemala said.
In El Salvador, one of only nine countries in the world that has a total ban on abortion, suicide accounts for 57% of all deaths of pregnant girls aged under 19.
Nazario Moreno, head of the Knights Templar, was killed last week. He was supposed to be dead already.
President Michael D Higgins brings the curtain down on a landmark tour of Central America with some final meetings in Costa Rica today.
We’re sure Galway United came up…
President Higgins left this morning for his official visit to Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica.
The warning affected parts of many Central American countries, but the biggest wave registered a mere four inches.
It’s the first time the telecoms group has reached profits of this level. It operates across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.
Officials have confirmed that 358 people died in the blaze, making it the world’s deadliest prison fire in a century.
The Guatemalan president wants to discuss legalising drugs, believing it’s the only way to control them. Should Ireland follow suit?
The new president of the country took office in January and has been speaking out about discussing the decriminalisation of drugs in Central America.
Noriega has been extradited by France to face charges of embezzlement and murder in his home country.
The former revolutionary’s win could see him with a mandate that could allow him to make constitutional changes guaranteeing perpetual re-election.
El Salvador and Nicaragua declared natural disasters yesterday, as landslides and floods continue to devastate the region.
Gaelic footballer Michael McLean died after a hiking accident in Nicaragua at the weekend.
Denis O’Brien’s Honduras and El Salvador telecommunications businesses are to be acquired by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim – recently named as the world’s richest man by Forbes.
The earth’s rotation sped up by over a microsecond because of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake.
The minister for trade and development has said that Ireland is standing by to provide assistance.
Stocks rose but oil prices fell in response to the terrible events in the Pacific.
With still many unaccounted for one news agency says the death toll is expected to rise above 1,000 people.
Reports that scientists had established a link between the activities of the sun and moon with the today’s Pacific tsunami have been dismissed by Irish astronomers.
Cities, towns and farmland seriously damaged by the 8.9 magnitude quake today, which then triggered tsunami.
Officials at the Department of the Taoiseach and Department of Foreign Affairs have so far made no official comment on the matter.
Indonesia and Guam have both lifted their tsunami warnings, after waves of just 10 centimetres hit the eastern Indonesian coast.
Weather centres around the Pacific rim show trajectory of deadly wave.
A volcano has erupted in Indonesia, just hours after an earthquake in Japan created a Pacific-wide tsunami.
People in the areas affected by the Pacific tsunami have uploaded photographs on social networking sites.
The Pacific tsunami has hit Taiwan causing minimal damage – it is due to hit the vulnerable Indonesia islandssoon.
The low lying Pacific islands may be swept over as a powerful tsunami hits the region – meanwhile Indonesia is bracing itself, as warnings indicate it will be the first area to be hit after Japan.
Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Central and South America and the rest of the Pacific Ocean have been issued with tsunami alerts.