Hundreds of thousands of people were believed to be unable to evacuate to safer ground.
Peter and Christopher Hitchens have never been close, but perhaps nothing separates the brothers more than their views on faith.
Soldiers shot a leader of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel Thursday, providing a needed victory to President Felipe Calderón in his war against cartels.
The visit, five years after the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister, showed that Syria’s influence over Lebanon was rising again.
The government on Friday also revised growth in the first quarter to 3.7 percent, higher than the previous estimate.
