Mar 03 Watch Chile’s President Calls for Calm After Quake as Military Mobilizes President Michelle Bachelet appealed to citizens of her country to remain calm, as the relief effort continues along Chile's coast after Saturday's massive earthquake. Margaret Warner reports. Continue watching
Mar 02 Winter Slams Mongolia’s Herding Families By News Desk More than 2.7 million livestock have died in what observers are calling the harshest winter Mongolia has faced in nearly a decade. A natural disaster, known locally as a "dzud," has dealt a financial blow to many herding families. Continue reading
Mar 02 Tuesday’s Headlines: Unrest, Looting in Chile; Court to Hear Gun Rights Case Aid to Chile's second largest city, Concepcion, was slowed Tuesday as troops struggled to control the looting that has broken out in the wake of last weekend's mammoth earthquake. Officials extended a curfew and dozens were arrested, as looters not… Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch Chile’s Death Toll Along Coast Continues to Climb The death toll in coastal Chile rose to nearly 800 in the wake of Saturday's massive earthquake and aftershocks. Margaret Warner reports on relief efforts by countries in the region and beyond. Continue watching
Mar 01 Video Roundup: Earthquake Aftermath in Chile By Larisa Epatko Following the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, rescuers were burrowing through wrecked buildings to find survivors on Monday. Continue reading
Mar 01 Santiago Warily Emerges From Quake as South Struggles to Get Basic Needs By Larisa Epatko The night of Chile's massive earthquake, Pascale Bonnefoy, GlobalPost correspondent in Santiago, had just returned home from vacation and gone to bed when she awoke to a house "jumping up and down."… Continue reading
Mar 01 Aftershocks Hit Chile, as Rescue Efforts Continue and Death Toll Rises --Men sit in a street devastated by the tsunami in Talcahuano, Chile. Photo Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images. Three more aftershocks jolted Chile early Monday, as the death toll from this weekend's mammoth earthquake climbed to more than 700 and rescue… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Building Codes, Preparation Re-examined After Chile’s Quake As aftershocks continue to strike Chile after Saturday's, Judy Woodruff talks to a crisis expert and a quake researcher about how the damage from this powerful quake differs from a less severe one that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti. Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch Chile Reels from Quake Aftershocks as Troops Crack Down on Looting More than 700 people are dead after one of the most powerful earthquakes in more than a century hit Chile on Saturday. Since then, troops and police have cracked down on curfew violations in an effort to stop violence and… Continue watching
Feb 28 Aftershocks Rattle Chile as Quake Leaves 1.5 Million Affected Chile was rattled by another powerful aftershock Sunday, one of at least 10 to strike the country in the aftermath of yesterday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake. The latest aftershock struck the capital of Santiago at roughly 8:30 a.m. local time, less… Continue reading