Tropical Storm Rafael gained hurricane status Tuesday evening as it churned in the warm Caribbean waters on the way to the Cayman Islands and Cuba before heading for the Gulf of Mexico, the National ...

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The U.S. State Department said it is coordinating with the Catholic Church to send $3 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba after Hurricane Melissa ravaged several provinces on the island’s eastern ...

When it was clear that Melissa was going to hit the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Las Tunas, Guantánamo and Holguín as a powerful Category 3 storm, the U.N. aid coordination office said it ...

The United Nations is launching a $74 million action plan to assist one million Cubans affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastating impact on the island’s eastern provinces. When it was clear that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jamaica was still recovering from Hurricane Beryl, which sideswiped the island in July ...