Larry Habegger

Australia More than 200 people have died in Australian wildfires, the country's worst wildfire death toll ever, with hundreds of blazes in Victoria, some within 60 miles of Melbourne. Continuing...

Belize Labor unrest and reports of gun violence in the Orange Walk area blocked roads, including the Northern Highway at the toll bridge to Orange Walk. Travel in the area...

Bolivia Three deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever prompted officials to declare a health emergency in the provinces of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Cochabamba, all in the hot, wet lowlands...

Fiji Officials declared resorts in the main tourist area of Nadi and other regions of western Viti Levu out of the disaster zone after what meteorologists called the strongest and...

Cambodia Efforts to control malaria in Cambodia have shown great success, reducing the number of cases from 100,000 in 2006 to 54,000 in 2008 and cutting the death rate in...

Argentina Authorities in Misiones province have begun mass vaccinations to combat yellow fever, which killed a farmworker recently in a rural region near the border with Paraguay and Brazil. The...

China President Hu Jintao urged faster reconstruction in Sichuan areas devastated by the May 12 earthquake. Millions of people are still living in tents and temporary housing with winter in...

Canada A strike by 2,300 bus drivers, mechanics and dispatchers has shut down public transit in Ottawa since Dec. 10, and negotiations have failed to produce an agreement over who...

Argentina Taxi drivers throughout the country plan to strike Dec. 24-25 and may strike Dec. 31-Jan. 1. Steep inflation is pushing them to seek higher salaries. Getting around within cities...

Egypt Egyptian authorities lifted the requirement for tourist vehicles to travel in armed convoys after 10 years without a terrorist incident on the roads along the Nile. The restriction was...