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A Haitian observes a flooded street in Saint Marc City. Hurricane Ike raged across Cuba with torrential rain and winds as Haiti struggled with a growing humanitarian crisis after four hurricanes in four weeks.(AFP/Yuri Cortez)

Deadly Ike rakes Cuba, could hit Havana head-on

AP - 58 minutes ago

CAMAGUEY, Cuba - Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, blowing buildings to rubble and sending waves surging over homes. Some 900,000 Cubans evacuated from its path, which forecasters said could take it to Louisiana or Texas later this week.

  • Flood victims push past security to enter a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Ike flooding kills 58 more in rain-soaked Haiti AP - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

    CABARET, Haiti - Hurricane Ike's torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town, killing at least 58 people.

  • A look at death toll from Atlantic storms AP - Sun Sep 7, 10:02 PM ET

    A look at deaths so far from the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season:

  • In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks during his weekly radio and television show 'Hello President' in Mantecal, Venezuela, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Chavez said Sunday that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval exercises in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)
    Chavez opponents call state media coverage unfair AP - Sun Sep 7, 8:35 PM ET

    CARACAS, Venezuela - In speech after speech, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stares at the television camera and unleashes a hail of colorful insults against his opponents.

  • Venezuela, Russia may hold joint naval exercises AP - Sun Sep 7, 5:19 PM ET

    CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval exercises in the Caribbean — a move that would likely raise concerns in Washington.

  • A diner at the Antojitos Mexicanos restaurant watches the progress of Hurricane Ike on the Weather Channel Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/David Adame)
    Fierce Hurricane Ike approaches Turks and Caicos AP - Sat Sep 6, 8:21 PM ET

    MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is roaring toward the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.

  • Residents unload roof materials provided by Cuba's government to repair damaged homes after Hurricane Gustav hit the area in La Palma, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Cuba's former President Fidel Castro said in an essay that repair efforts could cost billions, and require more than $350 from each Cuban on an island where the average state salary is only about US$20 per month. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
    Cuba declines US disaster assessment after Gustav AP - Sat Sep 6, 7:25 PM ET

    HAVANA - Cuba politely declined a U.S. offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying Saturday it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover.

  • Honduras issues 1,051-year sentence in massacre AP - Sat Sep 6, 3:47 PM ET

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre.

  • U.S. trained attorney Cristal Gonzalez speaks to lawyers, police investigators and forensic experts during a class on the new rules of justice in Mexico City, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Under the constitutional amendment passed by the legislature, approved by country's 32 states and signed by President Felipe Calderon, Mexico has eight years to replace its closed proceedings with public oral trials in which suspects are presumed innocent, legal authorities can be held more accountable and equal justice is promised to all. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Mexico undergoes legal revolution AP - Sat Sep 6, 9:41 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.

  • A flood victim carries a box of high energy biscuits he received from the World Food Program in a shelter as he wades through muddy water after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Hanna has killed at least 137 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    UN sees storms add to hard-hit Haiti's food crisis AP - Fri Sep 5, 11:14 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.