San Salvador, El Salvador News

Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:06 p.m. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A strong earthquake struck off El Salvador's Pacific coast Thursday, sending people running from buildings in this Central American nation and in neighboring Guatemala.

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US Airways has signed a codeshare deal with Taca Airlines that will let customers to fly to more destinations in Central and South America next year.

With Delta's latest international sale, fly from Atlanta to cities in the Caribbean and Central America including Antigua, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, and St.

The pests have turned up in offices, and authorities now worry that they will soon spread on public transit and in public gathering places.

The mission is to clear militants from an area to secure a planned road tha4 would move supplies to neighboring Pakistan.

Manuela Balenciaga, center, and Antonio Ellacuria, right, relatives of slain Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuria hold a medal given to them by El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, left, during a ceremony to conmemorate the 20th anniversary of the killing of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, Monday, Nov.

The death toll from last week's floods in El Salvador has reached 192, with 80 people still missing, the national emergency management office said on Sunday.

Scott Elberger is a US paediatrician volunteering in El Salvador who is now giving medical aid to refugees from the floods that have devastated the country.

BBC readers in El Salvador describe their experiences of the devastating floods and landslides, which have killed at least 130 people and have left about 7,000 living in shelters.

A devastating storm that struck El Salvador over the weekend was not the hurricane that roared through the region at the same time and, in fact, it did not even merit a name - which meant little after at least 140 people were killed when rivers burst their banks and hillsides collapsed under a siege of relentless rain.

Floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains washed out roads and bridges around the country Nov.

UNICEF s office in El Salvador has begun the first phase of humanitarian assistance to children affected by Tropical Storm Ida.

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Cruz Ayala, 55, weeps inconsolably over the bodies of his 71-year-old mother, Catalina, and his 15-year-old niece Carolina outside of a chapel in the town of Verapaz in the central Salvadoran province of San Vicente.

People work at a site damaged by heavy rains and Hurricane Ida in Verapaz, about 71 km east to San Salvador November 8, 2009 [REUTERS/Juan Carlos, courtesy www.alertnet.org] We are in contact with our partners in El Salvador as they assess the damage caused by major flooding and heavy rains in the country and plan their response More than 120 ...

Workers walk along a street that was damaged by heavy rain in San Martin on the outskirts of San Salvador, Sunday, Nov.

SAN SALVADOR: Floods and landslides killed at least 130 people in El Salvador and sent 10,000 fleeing their homes on Monday after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of mountainous Central America.

The sky above Salvadoran capital El Salvador appeared clear Tuesday: a radiant sun shone to dry the remnants of a weekend of weather chaos that changed whole landscapes.

With concerts and memorials today, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago.